99 on the button, 4-handed

[ShawnHoo]

Weekly $25 buy-in (w/ rebuys) home game. Four of us left -- we're all in the money. 1st gets 55%, 2nd gets 25%, 3rd gets 15%, 4th gets 5% (their buy-in, essentially).

300/600 blinds with 100 ante. Our Hero has ~6500 and is on the button with pocket 9's.

UTG, a solid player who has survived several all-ins to build up his stack, pushes for about 7500. The SB (player to Hero's left every hand) is the chipleader (~17K) and loves to bully; the BB (11K) is okay and predictable. Blinds go up every 15 minutes.

What's Hero's play (and "is it close")?

[durron597]

How loose do you think his pushing range is? If you think he's pushing like, 44+, A7s+, A9o+, KJs+ then it's very close (marginally +$EV). If you think it's a bit wider then that, then you should call.