Stars $5.5r push against chip leader?

[dknightx]

Was playing in the Stars $5.5r last night. We had just made it into the money, and I was sitting on a stack of ~35k. The chip leader at the table, sitting to my right, has about 120k.

With blinds at 3000/6000 + 150 ante, I'm looking at an M of ~3.

In the BB, I get dealt 44. It folds to the SB (chip leader), who min-raises to 12000. I figured he was on a steal attempt and pushed. Was this the correct move? Should I have just called instead because of the "suspicious" min-raise?

Well he flips over AA, and the rest is history. One of my friends who was watching said I should have folded and waited for a better position. What is the correct play? I figured that with my chip stack so low, if I wanted to make a push for the final table I needed to double up, even if it was a coin flip (which is what I put myself on).