A tournament hand

It's so rare that any play crops up in tourneys that isn't automatic, I thought I'd post this one.

Seat 2 is the button

Seat 1: bigron42 ( $6210.00 USD )
Seat 2: Villain ( $10985.00 USD )
Seat 3: maz101010 ( $1890.00 USD )
Seat 4: Hero ( $2270.00 USD )
Seat 5: steptoe1949 ( $6285.00 USD )
Seat 6: celtic rebel ( $9040.00 USD )
Seat 7: ComancheTodd ( $2745.00 USD )
Seat 8: 40kCrasher ® ( $550.00 USD )
Seat 9: foxiefella ( $17875.00 USD )

bigron42 posts ante of [$20.00 USD].
Villain posts ante of [$20.00 USD].
maz101010 posts ante of [$20.00 USD].
Hero posts ante of [$20.00 USD].
steptoe1949 posts ante of [$20.00 USD].
celtic rebel posts ante of [$20.00 USD].
ComancheTodd posts ante of [$20.00 USD].
40kCrasher ® posts ante of [$20.00 USD].
foxiefella posts ante of [$20.00 USD].
maz101010 posts small blind [$75.00 USD].
Hero posts big blind [$150.00 USD].

** Dealing down cards **

Dealt to Hero [ 9◊; 6♡; ]
steptoe1949 calls [$150.00 USD]
celtic rebel calls [$150.00 USD]
ComancheTodd calls [$150.00 USD]
40kCrasher ® folds
foxiefella calls [$150.00 USD]
bigron42 calls [$150.00 USD]
Villain calls [$150.00 USD]
maz101010 calls [$75.00 USD]
Hero checks
** Dealing Flop ** [ 9♠, A♡;, 6◊; ]
maz101010 checks

Hero ?

So, you have about $2k and there's about $1.6k in the pot. You have flopped bottom two against a veritable army of limpers.

There are 18 places paid and 40 players left.

Rate your opinion on the choices of

(a) a check
(b) a non-all-in bet
(c) a shove

I'll state quite categorically that anyone who thinks there is a "right" answer to this is, in my opinion, not that good, because so much depends on your assumptions re other players, and if you are certain that your assumptions about what another player will do are correct (let alone eight of them!), then you are a better man than I, Gunga Din.

Mathematically, it's an interesting one.

However, I do think that one of the choices is definitely wrong.

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