Instead of quoting the hand history directly, I’ll summarize for ease of reading.
It’s the near the very beginning of the tournament. The starting stacks were $1,500, and the blinds are $10-$20 with no antes. Nearly everyone still has around their starting stack, except for the initial limper in the hand who clearly doubled through someone already.
Three players limp to our hero on the button who has A
K
. Hero min-raises to $40 and gets called by the big blind and two of the three limper's. So there’s four to the flop for $40 each, and the effective stacks are still around $1,500.
Flop comes A
7
4
. Checked to the player on hero’s right who bets $120 (3/4 pot). Hero raises to $310 and gets called only by the bettor. (Pot now $790.) The turn is the 2
. Check, and Hero pushes for his remaining approximately $1,000 and gets called.
Are you a donkey? Certainly not. But I do have a few thoughts. First, I would definitely have raised more preflop. You’ve got the button and a terrific hand. Take advantage of the situation by putting some real money out there. It’s not really that min raising is bad, it’s just that a bigger raise is even better. There’s already $90 in the pot when the action gets to you, and since you’re obviously at least calling let’s say the pot is $110. That’s already fairly sizable when compared to your $1,500 stack.
As the pot gets large compared to the stack sizes, it makes more sense to “protect your hand” with raises designed to force your opponents to pay up or fold. With position I don’t think there’s any downside to following that principle. I would have made it around a pot-sized raise or perhaps even a bit more… maybe a raise to $150 or so. Min raising doesn’t press your advantage as much as you perhaps should have.
So My Question Two You All is Am i a Donkey In this Situation ?