$1.20 SnG on Stars. I had gotten off to a good start but had been steadily leaking chips, from a high of about 3300 to this point. Now I'm just barely 3rd in chips on the bubble and I ended up throwing away 500 valuable chips on this hand. I'd like some feedback on how I could have played it better. Villain was a fairly aggressive player but I wouldn't classify him as LAG.

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t100 (4 handed) Hand History Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com (Format: FlopTurnRiver)

Hero (t2265)
Button (t2060)
SB (t4010)
BB (t5165)

Preflop: Hero is UTG with J, A.
Hero raises to t300, 1 fold, SB raises to t500, 1 fold, Hero calls t200.

Flop: (t1100) 6, 6, 9 (2 players)
SB bets t500, Hero folds.

Final Pot: t1600

I'm not sure there is another better way to play it.
Folding is fine, you still have plenty of chips left.

What about a limp here? On the bubble, the only people calling or reraising us are likely ahead...pairs and better aces. SB likely raises, but not as much and we can see the flop cheaper.

If it had been AQ, I'd say shove preflop in response to the min-reraise. As it stands, I think you played it the way you should have (I don't like the idea of limping here).

I like how you played it.

Shove preflop. You'll get called by some absurd holdings in a $1 SnG on Stars.

Perhaps, but do I want to be taking that kind of chance on the bubble? I tend to avoid committing all my chips on the bubble when it's likely a race situation, unless I'm confident I'm on the good side of the coinflip.

meh we can't shove aj preflop with 22 bb's. 11 and I'd be perfectly ok with it.

In my opinion it is perfectly ok to commit all your chips on the bubble if you are the one who shoves and not the one who calls. Without fold equity you need a strong hand - and your fold equity usually never is as high as when you are on the bubble.

Shoving here is attempted suicide. The SB is telling us he is very strong, and we have no reason to think we're ahead here.

Limping is also horrible, you let the rags in the blinds catch up.

I agree, I wouldn't like it here either, I meant that just in general.

I don't think this applies to $1.20 nearly as well as it does to higher buy-ins. Players at this level have no understanding of bubble strategy or the gap concept, both of which are necessary to use fold equity successfully on the bubble.