SB shove or fold?

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How wide of a range should I have here in the SB?

Opponent is 21/17/0 out of 24 hands. Only been to SD twice, AK both times and one of those was a split pot with me. This has been opponents only raise in an obvious steal position. Don't remember any folds while in a steal position.

I'm 154th/198 and my stats are 20/16/2 and I have shown the split pot AK and another split pot AK, 99 that I shoved over a short stacks shove which lost to a 3 outer and a JJ that I shoved over a SS AI and won.

pokerstars Tournament $2.50+$0.25 Hold'em No Limit
Seat #7 is the button
Seat 1: bighitter371 (31947 in chips)
Seat 2: luckyseb94 (17093 in chips)
Seat 3: derstader (96247 in chips)
Seat 5: jodleif88 (14817 in chips)
Seat 6: Hobbes9 (37490 in chips)
Seat 7: Orvol (31150 in chips)
Seat 8: jillychemung (20194 in chips)
Seat 9: COQUILLO (12300 in chips)
bighitter371: posts the ante 150
luckyseb94: posts the ante 150
derstader: posts the ante 150
jodleif88: posts the ante 150
Hobbes9: posts the ante 150
Orvol: posts the ante 150
jillychemung: posts the ante 150
COQUILLO: posts the ante 150
jillychemung: posts small blind 800
COQUILLO: posts big blind 1600
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to jillychemung [Js 9s]
McQ92 is connected
bighitter371: folds
luckyseb94: folds
derstader: folds
jodleif88: folds
Hobbes9: folds
Orvol: raises 3400 to 5000
jillychemung: ??
 
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I don't hate it but I'd like it a lot more if he had been an active stealer.

It helps that you have a good image so you may have FE and might folded something like77 or AJ. In any event you have nice, live cards and should be in decent shape unless he wakes up with an overpair. I think he folds more than 60 percent of the time so, not a bad play.
 
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I would fold, you still had enough chips to wait for a better hand than that to risk 1/4 of your chips, plus the BB was sitting behind you still ready to act. Let's say you call then the BB calls as well then your range of hands that you can beat goes down quite a bit. If that wasn't a position raise, then it's not worth it in that spot w/ such an in-between hand, you could easily be dominated as well.
 
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The hands he has with a J or 9 he's folding unless it's JJ/99, so you're rarely dominated when he calls.
 
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FYI I think this is a fold against a looser player who thinks A9 is the nuts.
 
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Looks like a steal attempt? Regardless though, do you really want to risk a big chunk of your stack with J9s? I'd fold and hope for a decent hand next time around.
 
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You have to make moves like this once in a while or you will blind out of a lot of tournaments. I like this move a lot better with J9 than AT.
 
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The decision is only shove or fold. No calling here as 5K is 1/4 of my stack and calling gives the BB a great implied odds to squeeze.

Does anyone have a good hand range to shove here?

22+,A2s+,A9o+,T9s+,KQo+ would seem to be a good starting point but are there any other hands to expand it with?
 
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I like 55+, AJ+, KQ, 87s+

But I totally flatcall with AA/KK.
 
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