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I think this is a simple call. Hero is getting his 1:2.5 to call, and the only hands that are better than 1:2.5 over his Q9 are 99, QT, QJ, QK, QA, QQ, KK, AA. The big queen hands are also only off by a few percent of odds to call here.

The shortstack meanwhile is going to be making this move with a wide variety of hands now that he's ITM and aiming to take a shot at first. He could easily be on any pair, Ax or big kings as well, not to mention total trash if he's stupid, and to be fair, most people in the $11s are stupid. Sadly, I'm at work or I'd work out what kind of range he'd play to see if you'd want to make this call with, but I'm pretty sure that the range has to be very, very small for this to be a bad play.