Medium pair with a short stack, no limit

Game type: $100 1 rebuy 1 add on, Full Tilt Poker
Stage of tourney: Nearing bubble
Your image: Fairly tight
Opponent’s image: Aggressive
Your hand: 9♣9♥
The setup: You’ve hit a slump in this tournament and have dwindled to a short stack. This hand a fairly active player raises to 3x under the gun. Two players fold and the action is to you.
What’s your play?
10.23.08 / 12am
Good hand, active opponent, short stack…easy shove!
10.23.08 / 1am
That’s a no-brainer, I shove.
10.23.08 / 2am
I think we should min reraise to find out where we are at.
10.23.08 / 6am
If u call the raise u might as well push and go all in because to call is about hapf your stack anways.
10.23.08 / 6am
This is the simplest hand I’ve seen on here, there’s surely no other option but to shove
10.23.08 / 7am
M of 4, dwindling stack, easy shove. 99 is more than good enough; I’d probably shove with 66+.
10.23.08 / 8am
Not much thought here … easy shove especially given the active v.
10.23.08 / 12pm
Lol, good one staff, you had me for a moment with your joke answer
With villain being agressive, presumably also active from early position a lot, I think this is a gamble that is necessary. All in with it!
However, in a game without antes and against a nittish villain, this could be a fold.
10.24.08 / 9am
I put a lot on the read of the v is this sitch. I shove. Since I’m read as tight, I’m hoping no one else joins in.

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10.22.08 / 11am
I think you should call and fold to any flop with overcards in it.
Just kidding. I do think you should get it in, though. You’re probably running about even against UTGs raising range, and the blinds and antes are adding a good amount of extra money. Those just aren’t the type of shots you can pass up with a 10BB stack.
What actually happened: You raised and the rest of the table folded to UTG, who called with 88. Your hand held and you won the pot.