FT 5.50 99: how to play medium pocket pairs OOP late?

[allhappythoughts]

Full Tilt Poker
No Limit Holdem Tournament
Blinds: t80/t160
6 players
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Stack sizes:
UTG: t3140
UTG+1: t2155
CO: t2560
Button: t1780
Hero: t2495
BB: t1370

Pre-flop: (6 players) Hero is SB with 9[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] 9[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]
3 folds, Button calls t160 <font color="aaaaaa">(pot was t240)</font>, <font color="#red">Hero raises all-in t2495</font>, 2 folds.
Uncalled bets: t2335 returned to Hero.

Results:
Final pot: t480

Table has been loose.

Is this just a horrible way to play this? I'm not really sure what the best way to play medium pocket pairs is. I'm in good position to make the money, but I don't have a huge stack so I don't really want to raise to 4x BB and then have to throw the hand away if the flop comes out bad, esp. since I'm OOP. I have a reasonably strong hand here though, so am I minimizing value here? I'm either raising or shoving, and given stack sizes, I like a shove better. Good play, ok play, or bad play?

[KidDelicious]

its a favorable hands vs the blinds so ya, good push vs a shorter stack. in my experience you will alot of the time get called with a weak ace or something like QJ K J if you just make a standard raise. pushing usually makes them go bye bye at 5.50s if they have an average stack