Party Million Hand

[tentwenty]

You have AKo UTG early on (blinds 15-30) of the tourney, stack at around 1500 and mostly solid table with 2 loose/bad players. I am tempted to raise but all that does is let everyone know you are strong and if you get called it will likely be to a better hand with you out of position. This is a $600 buy in and even the morons know to respect an UTG raise. If everyone folds you win a whopping 45 chips.
Options:
1) Fold
2) Limp
2) Raise Min
3) Raise 3x bb
4) Raise to 200

Your move?

[boedeker]

i go with the standard raise. i think its a bad idea to try and get funny with AK. Especially here.

[dmk]

ok, folding is obviously not an option. as far as raising is concerned, i don't like to define my hand by varying raise sizes. so if 3x is your standard, stick to that (i usually make it an even 100 at 15/30, but you get the picture). so you have 2 options: limp or standard-raise. either is perfectly acceptable; early in a tournament i take the limping route and plan on not going broke w/ TPTK.