Dumb steal defense?

[Blarg]

A smaller stack, I figure, might well be trying a steal before his folding equity disappears. Here's what I did. Dumb?

***** Hand History for Game 1896232141 *****
NL Hold'em $10 Buy-in + $1 Entry Fee Trny:11307950 Level:5 Blinds(100/200) - Thursday, April 14, 22:51:14 EDT 2005
Table Table 11264 (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Total number of players : 6
Seat 1: PokerPMP ( $1205 )
Seat 5: jeff61083 ( $630 )
Seat 4: CactusSlim ( $3160 )
Seat 9: fR33yayO ( $660 )
Seat 3: Hero ( $1440 )
Seat 2: Erikssigns ( $905 )
Trny:11307950 Level:5
Blinds(100/200)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to Hero [ 6h As ]
CactusSlim folds.
jeff61083 folds.
fR33yayO folds.
PokerPMP folds.
Erikssigns raises [300].
Hero is all-In [1240]
Erikssigns is all-In [505]
** Dealing Flop ** [ Td, Qc, 6c ]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Kh ]
** Dealing River ** [ Th ]
Erikssigns shows [ 8c, 8d ] two pairs, tens and eights.
Hero shows [ 6h, As ] two pairs, tens and sixes.
Hero wins 535 chips from side pot #1 with two pairs, tens and sixes.
Erikssigns wins 1810 chips from the main pot with two pairs, tens and eights.

By the way, I couldn't seem to get bison's coverter to show the bets this time...dunno why. So I had to leave it like this.

[DasLeben]

I fold preflop. I'd much rather be the aggressor from the start.

[Blarg]

I prefer to be the aggressor too, but fighting for the blinds seems to make sense to me here.

This steal would increase villain's stack by a third if it worked, moving him much higher up in standings and giving him twice the stack of some of the others, and so he would be correct to raise with most anything.

I was thinking that therefore A-x was very likely a reasonable hand. I had folding equity, and his stack would be crippled if he didn't call. If he did call, I had to worry about being beaten of course. But considering he would be compelled in his position to raise with almost anything, I thought A-x had some good value in this situation.