($16) What to do with 12 BB?

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t100 (7 handed) FTR converter on zerodivide.cx

MP2 (t1795)
CO (t680)
Button (t3560)
SB (t1985)
BB (t1365)
UTG (t2940)
Hero (t1175)

Preflop: Hero is MP1 with 9[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], 9[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img].
1 fold, Hero...?

The only really loose player is the CO; most of the rest are slightly loose.

This is a situation I'm having trouble with. Limping seems weak, as does folding. But I feel like a any raise leaves me too short-stacked to do anything but check-fold or push the flop, and since there's usually at least one over card, that's a tricky scenario. I don't have much trouble pushing this from the button or CO, but pushing from EP isn't too enticing.

So I guess the question is twofold...

1) What do you do here? What about smaller pairs? I can fold 66 on down, but 77-99 seem ambiguous.

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2) What do you open-push here? I'm thinking AQ+, TT+.

[Melchiades]

I openpush nothing here.

I limp middle pairs, if I'm raised I most likely fold. But a read on the raiser might change that.

Maybe thats weak, but 99 isn't a monster.

Raise to 300.

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I openpush nothing here.

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Yeah, I probably misspoke there. I'd standard raise AA-QQ, but I would push AK/AQ to see all five cards, maybe JJ & TT, because weaker aces and smaller pairs will call a lot.



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Raise to 300.

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That's a lazy answer, and also my first thought. But then what? Say you get one caller on the button. A flop of AKJ or 742 is easy enough, but what about Q85? Or K76? Do you want to push there and take the chance? Or leave yourself with soon-to-be <6 BB otherwise?