blake,
I'm somewhat of a newbie too, but if you don't mind here's what I think.
(I would expect my analysis will be ripped apart by others, but that's how I
can learn something too.)
I don't think you're the one who needs to worry about how you played the
hand. If I followed correctly, was the guy with JT doing all the raising? If
so, he should be the one asking this question. It looks like AA went along
for the ride, hoping another A would show up (or that you had overplayed
your hand).
I probably would not have raised before the flop with 99 and four
callers ahead of me. The reraise would have made me think a bit too. In
fact, I'd be happy I was the BB so I wouldn't need to think about folding.
But, that may be a matter of my style.
After the flop, the "nuts" hand would have been KK; and K9 would also
have beat you. Since nobody raised, it was probably a good bet that nobody
had either combination. There's a real good chance that somebody with Kx
(giving them trip Kings) would have raised. (There's a slight chance they
may have been slow playing the hand until the turn when the bets go up, but
most $1/2 players don't think that far ahead.)
After the Q on the turn, you could have lost to KK, KQ, K9, or QQ. By the
same logic as the flop, we probably know that nobody had a pocket K. So QQ
is the only hand that should scare you at this point. With four different
suits on the board, a straight flush is totally out of the question.
You played aggressively here. This is also where caller 2 came out
firing. It looks like you (correctly) put caller 2 on the straight, rather
than quads or a bigger full house. (I love it when I have a full house and
somebody else has a straight or a flush!)
With the J river card, the only additional hand that could have beaten
you was JJ.
I'm wondering why you didn't check-raise, especially since you had bet
and reraised on the turn.
It's hard to read players in low-limit. I play $2/4, and there are people
who raise whenever they have two cards that are the same color. But at this
point you had a lot of money in the pot, you seemed pretty confident that
you had the winner. So, an extra $2 could have gotten you an extra $4 in
profit.
Not a huge deal financially, but it would have sent an even stronger
message to the other players.
You certainly don't want people at the poker table to think you're a
"Nice Guy".
Now that I've gone through all that, I realize that I'm only looking at
what actually did happen. As you were playing the hand, did you consider
what "might" happen on the next card? Even though you were sitting there
with nines full, there are several overcards that are unaccounted for that
could have spoiled you party.
Specifically, if an A showed up, "caller" would have had aces full. If
another K showed up, anybody with a pair higher than 99 would have beaten
you (in this case, you would have come in "third place"). But I think the
odds were in your favor.
>> Stay informed about: hand help, was this played ok 
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