.50/1 NL
5 Handed
Villain: $62.70
Hero: $245.60 [9h 9s]

PRE-FLOP
Villain calls $1, Hero calls $1, MP folds, SB calls $0.50, BB checks.

FLOP [board cards 9D,JS,7D ]
SB bets $3, BB folds, Villain calls $3, Hero bets $10, SB folds, Villain calls $7.

TURN [board cards 9D,JS,7D,KC ]
Villain checks, Hero bets $15, Villain bets $45, Hero?

i think your not safe. i think he has ou beat with Q 10. he bet it hoping to take it down you raise, like a donk he calls. turn he makes a straight. he checks to you to make it look like you scared him off then raised.

also why did you limp with 99?

I play a lot of full ring where i like to limp with medium pairs. I guess I could've raised to isolate. Q 10 is what I was thinking after he c/rs. Maybe I could've raised more on the flop, but I wanted to make some money off my set. Also, he didn't bet the flop, he called, which makes Q 10 even more likely.

I agree with this strategy in full ring, however your OP says you
were playing 5-handed. Any pair is huge when shorthanded, play
them all aggressively...

I disagree. I like them for set value, still.

..as for the actual hand, let's not assume there's always monsters under the bed. He's making the same play with KJ that he is with QT.

I'm pushing, or at the very least seeing a river to try and boat up.

Edit; I see that he only has 60 or so at the start of the hand. Put him in.

I'll agree with drawingdead here. My first consideration was KJ and then QT (with KJ being more likely as a preflop choice), straight up it's a split decision but considering the money already in the pot, your boat+quad outs and villains shortstack it's an easy all-in move here, with the added small possibility of villain butchering a 77.

Don't ever put someone on "one hand", put them on a range of hands..

As for 99, I'm betting this preflop, in 6max or 10max I might limp but now I'm betting to play it as a pair postflop, with flopping a set as secondary. Will have to place a c-bet even with overcards, 2/3 or 3/4 pot.