Ugly situation -- blind steal with air gone awry

[Matt R.]

Party $10+1, villain is a donk, as evidenced by his preflop play here. I had folded his BB to him every time I believe, and I thought our stack size situation warranted a steal here even though I had poo. Obviously I would fold to a push, but his min-reraise complicated things immensely. It gave me ridiculous pot odds preflop, so I decided to call and push on any favorable flop for me (2 spades or a pair on most flops). Comments?

#Game No : 2329087994
***** Hand History for Game 2329087994 *****
NL Hold'em $10 Buy-in + $1 Entry Fee Trny:13749214 Level:6 Blinds(100/200) - Friday, July 08, 04:39:51 EDT 2005
Table Table 17602 (Real Money)
Seat 9 is the button
Total number of players : 3
Seat 4: tboss4 ( $1830 )
Seat 9: bobbyc81767 ( $4055 )
Seat 2: MattR81 ( $2115 )
Trny:13749214 Level:6
Blinds(100/200)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to MattR81 [ Ts 4s ]
bobbyc81767 folds.
MattR81 raises [450].
tboss4 raises [700].
Your time bank will become active in less than 20 seconds. If you do not want it to be used, please act now.
MattR81 calls [350].
** Dealing Flop ** [ Ks, 5d, 7s ]
MattR81 is all-In [1215]
tboss4 is all-In [930]

[Matt R.]

Bump before I go to bed... come on, just one reply! /images/graemlins/mad.gif

[cleinen]

If you were going to raise and then call a raise preflop you should have just pushed. You are giving up a great deal of FE by not doing so.

[tshort]

I would push all-in if you intend to steal his blind.

Then continue to aggressively push with decent hands.

[Matt R.]

Not quite in bed yet, so really quickly -- My intention wasn't to raise and call a preflop reraise. I would've folded to any normal size re-raise preflop as it should have been a push (I wasn't expecting the min-raise). With blinds as they were, I didn't want to risk nearly my entire stack with T4s by pushing. The min-reraise screwed things up for me though.

[cleinen]

If you didn't want to risk your stack you need to fold to his bet no matter what the bet was.

[schwza]

i think that pushing or completing would be preferable to raising. if he calls your raise, and it sounds like you think he's a donk, so that's reasonably likely, you're stuck playing out of position with a bad hand. ugh.

once he minraises, i would fold. yes, he's giving you great odds, but he may be giving you great odds for a reason. whenever i see a min-raise, i say to myself "AA?" if you do get a favorable flop, all it does is give you the chance the make a push that may or may not be profitable against his range. you really have to hit the flop hard for your hand to be worth a lot.