The danger of AK early

[Phoenix1010]

I'm aware that I should have raised more preflop. It was an attention span related mistake. As the hand played out, is this a clear fold?


Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t30 (7 handed) converter (http://www.selachian.com/tools/bisonconverter/hhconverter.cgi)

MP2 (t2455)
Hero (t690)
Button (t900)
SB (t863)
BB (t612)
UTG (t1650)
MP1 (t830)

Preflop: Hero is CO with K/images/graemlins/spade.gif, A/images/graemlins/diamond.gif.
<font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, MP1 calls t30, MP2 calls t30, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to t100</font>, <font color="#666666">2 folds</font>, BB calls t70, MP1 calls t70, MP2 folds.

Flop: (t345) 6/images/graemlins/heart.gif, 4/images/graemlins/club.gif, 2/images/graemlins/heart.gif <font color="#0000FF">(3 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">BB bets t100</font>, MP1 calls t100, MP1 folds.

Hero?

[lastchance]

Pretty easy fold, IMHO.

[CieloAzor]

Clear fold.

[FishBurger]

I raise allin preflop. There's already 105 in the pot and you only have 690. 105 chips is 15% of your stack, and I think that is worth trying to pick up by itself even if you don't get any other callers.

Plus, if this is a lower buyin SnG, at least one donk will call your allin around a 1/3rd of the time (guesstimate from experience).

Alternatively, I sometimes put in half my stack preflop (if want to try and get callers) and put the rest in on the flop.