Interesting Situation...

[kurosh]

It's a Step 1 MTT SNG. We're down to 5 players so on the bubble. Top 4 advance.

Blinds are 150/300. I'm in the BB with about 2300 after posting. Everyone else has around 3k besides chip leader with about 9k.

Chip leader is UTG. He raises to 900. Read on him is pretty loose with calls but semi-tight preflop, passive postflop. He's willing to take gambles. His range of raising hands here are pocket pairs 88+ and any two over T (AK AQ AJ KQ KJ QJ) It's folded around to me. I have 99.

What do you do?

I think an argument can be made for any move.

Push- I know he will not fold to a push because it's only 1700 more, he has a huge stack and my read on him. I don't really want to be in a coinflip for all my chips on the bubble though.

Call- I kind of like calling off a lot of my stack here. I would know pretty easily if he hit the flop or not because he's passive. Push if there are no overs, check and see what he does if there are. I'd be left with 1700 if I had to fold which is pretty low but not dead.

Fold- The hand is too good to fold but it's also a viable alternative. Can I afford to wait for another hand with 2300?

[tigerite]

Stop and go.

[kurosh]

Er actually, I just looked at the hand history and I got nearly the entire hand wrong. Sorry, I was doing this off the top of my head.

Blinds are 200/400. I have 1300 after posting. Villian UTG only CALLS.

[tigerite]

Well, if you push, there will be your 1300+his 400+SB's 200 in the post, so 1900, and he'll have to call 900, which I imagine he will do with any two. Unfortunately this will probably be two high cards and thus you'll be a coin flip. So I'd still do a stop and go.