$109 Bubble: 99 in BB --- what's my line?

[ononimo]

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to the OP: are you worried about having the best hand here, preserving the bubble so that you can bully, or losing an all in and being in danger of busting?

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rightly or wrongly, i was pretty confident that I had the best hand - UTG seemed to make smaller raises with pairs and bigger raises with big cards.

my concern was that if i lost a race, I'd be the 3rd stack and, while still ~2x the short stack, I would have ceded the control that my stack had given me and I'd now be subject from bullying from the 2 biggers stacks. this isn't usually something i worry about but since i'm trying to refine my tourney game, i was curious if it was something i SHOULD be worrying about (if that makes any sense).

[treeofwisdom7]

i see the point you guys are putting up that maybe a fold is a good idea because all the chippies you could win. if hes gonna call when i push and i know this then i would call and push the flop.. but if he would fold if i push now with any hand like KJ Axs then im gonna push..or fold 99 in the bb good idea

but i guess the fold idea might be a good one