2 Bubble Hands from a $55 SNG - 3rd in chips with large lead over 4th

[Lloyd]

I'd appreciate a little feedback on both of these hands:

Hand 1

(I had raised 2 of the last 4 hands)

#Game No : 1392355622
***** Hand History for Game 1392355622 *****
NL Hold'em $50 Buy-in + $5 Entry Fee Trny:8419191 Level:5 Blinds(100/200) - Wednesday, January 05, 01:51:38 EDT 2005
Table Table 12430 (Real Money)
Seat 8 is the button
Total number of players : 4
Seat 2: ontime_storm ( $840 )
Seat 3: MagicPig ( $2515 )
Seat 8: sweetjj ( $3140 )
Seat 9: carlos13061 ( $3505 )
Trny:8419191 Level:5
Blinds(100/200)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to MagicPig [ 9h 9d ]
MagicPig raises [600].
sweetjj is all-In [3140]
carlos13061 folds.
ontime_storm folds.
MagicPig: ?????

Hand 2

2 Hands later and I raised the hand in between and won without a showdown:

#Game No : 1392358225
***** Hand History for Game 1392358225 *****
NL Hold'em $50 Buy-in + $5 Entry Fee Trny:8419191 Level:6 Blinds(150/300) - Wednesday, January 05, 01:52:21 EDT 2005
Table Table 12430 (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Total number of players : 4
Seat 2: ontime_storm ( $490 )
Seat 3: MagicPig ( $2065 )
Seat 8: sweetjj ( $4040 )
Seat 9: carlos13061 ( $3405 )
Trny:8419191 Level:6
Blinds(150/300)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to MagicPig [ Ah 9s ]
carlos13061 folds.
ontime_storm folds.
MagicPig ????

[adanthar]

Easy fold in Hand 1.

...and probably a complete or an outright fold in Hand 2 since (especially with your image) you're going to be played back at no matter what. I don't think you can raise all in here with this hand and you certainly can't 'just' raise it.

[Merlyn22]

Good fold on hand 1 - you're probably, at best 50/50 - no need to put it all on the line on the bubble with a race. On hand 2, fold - not because you normally wouldn't push with this but because the extreme short stack on the table is about to be on the BB the hand after next hand. He's got 2 hands to double up. So no matter what happens, in the next two hands (if he doubles up or gets knocked out) you'll get the chance to be super-aggressive afterwards. Plus, it may be easier to steal blinds then if you haven't tried it in the last couple hands.