would you call here?

This is from Monday's FTR $300 added $5 buyin NLHE tourny on UB. It's bubble time with only 10players left and tourny pays 9 but pays well! $5 buyin and 9th pays $20. I have about 7xBB stack. Depak has been shoving alot so there is a good chance his hand is not so great. I am in the BB seat and Depak in UTG shoves it allin. I look down at 99 and everyone folds to me. Like I said, its the bubble, so if I call and lose I lose a decent payout I could holdout for and maybe get still get lucky for a run on the final table. But it seems there is a better then good chance the 99 is good noting how agressively Depak has been playing and could hold up giving me a nice stack to take to the final table to improve my chances for a run - what do you do here and why ? I will post what I did and how it turned out after (or if) some other opinions are posted...


Stage #1677177425 Tourney ID 4338818 Holdem Multi Normal Tournament No Limit 800 - 2009-05-25 22:42:06 (ET)
Table: 5 (Real Money) Seat #4 is the dealer
Seat 2 - DEPAKCHOPRA (5,019 in chips)
Seat 3 - MAJOR_BUZZ (9,365 in chips)
Seat 4 - NADI26 (8,367 in chips)
Seat 5 - MARINES1 (6,870 in chips)
Seat 6 - ISLANDTIME2 (5,702 in chips)
DEPAKCHOPRA - Ante 100
MAJOR_BUZZ - Ante 100
NADI26 - Ante 100
MARINES1 - Ante 100
ISLANDTIME2 - Ante 100
MARINES1 - Posts small blind 400
ISLANDTIME2 - Posts big blind 800
*** POCKET CARDS ***
Dealt to ISLANDTIME2 [9c 9d]
DEPAKCHOPRA - All-In(Raise) 4,919 to 4,919
MAJOR_BUZZ - Folds
NADI26 - Folds
MARINES1 - Folds
ISLANDTIME2 - ?

1 - I was probaly 7 or 8 out of 10 but everyone is fairly close.
2 - I will hold off answering this one as more interested in what other folks do here.

[jsawe]

Even a persistent alliner, will usually be smart enough to have some sort of hand when making the move from an early position. Your hand of 99 is a coin toss to any two overcards, a dog to an over pair - which are his most likely holdings. My two real considerations are the following: first, is he an allin any Ax player; and second, I have to cosnider that his stack is also large enough relative to the blinds that only a maniac would be shoving in with pure crap.

Would I call - it would depend in part on the above and on how the rest of the table is playing. If it is playing tight and I am not seeing many decent hands, I would call in a heart beat. However, if it is playing loose with a lot of big bet confrontations I may consider a fold and wait until I had the vigorish for a move.

OK, thanks for the replys. I played it exactly as n2k called it. I really wanted to shove because I get beat by so many pocket pairs on my Ax shoves I kept thinking maybe I'm due but then I remembered the cards have no memory despite what Mike Matesow says. So I folded and I did make it through the bubble and one other player to take 8th and $26 (good payout for $5 entry) so to answer n2k's second question I was just trying to get in the money and then maybe get lucky. I don't think Depak had pure crap - he makes alot of shoves but I see him deep in alot of tournies so I would have probably been in a coin toss to two overs for best case as jsawe suggested. The table was playing tight/aggresive which jsawe says he would call with the 99 in a heartbeat so maybe I should have called ?