Should I have gone AI preflop?

[wmspringer]

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t150 (7 handed) converter (http://www.selachian.com/tools/bisonconverter/hhconverter.cgi)

MP1 (t1220)
MP2 (t2800)
Villian (t2685)
Button (t1145)
Hero (t1480)
BB (t1350)
UTG (t2820)

Preflop: Hero is SB with A/images/graemlins/diamond.gif, A/images/graemlins/club.gif.
<font color="#666666">3 folds</font>, Villian raises to t450, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to t750</font>, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, Villian calls t300.

Flop: (t1650) Q/images/graemlins/club.gif, 2/images/graemlins/diamond.gif, 7/images/graemlins/diamond.gif <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">Hero bets t730 (All-In)</font>, Villian calls t730.

Turn: (t3110) J/images/graemlins/club.gif <font color="#0000FF">(2 players, 1 all-in)</font>

River: (t3110) T/images/graemlins/heart.gif <font color="#0000FF">(2 players, 1 all-in)</font>

Final Pot: t3110


Based on prior hands, I was hoping Villian would respond to the mini-raise by going all in, as I had seen him do earlier with pocket queens.

[splashpot]

Your way is fine.

[valenzuela]

Im not sure that is more +ev than pushing...but commiting your stack with aces cant be bad.

[tigerite]

It doesn't matter, he'd have called anyway, and that's what you want, right?