Stealer hits piece of flop, gets bet into...

[Superfluous Man]

At first a friend of mine insisted I played this poorly, and I was (and pretty sure) I did as well. But I'm starting to justify the action in my head.

Anyway, 'stars $11R, a couple minutes after the 3rd break, so there's still about 80-90 who have to bust before everyone's ITM. I have a little above the average stack with 55k, and I had come back from dead last (T195 with the BB at 400). So I was feeling special (i.e. drunk on being a luckbox). Read on SB is that he's a little looser and a little more passive preflop than average, but he's only been here 2 orbits or so, so I haven't really seen him play postflop. The BB had never failed to fold to a steal attempt, so I figured I had a good shot at the steal. Feel free to criticise preflop play as well as posit a postflop play. Without further ado...

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t3000 (9 handed) converter

SB (t43850)
BB (t30575)
UTG (t7381)
UTG+1 (t80382)
MP1 (t57440)
MP2 (t51700)
MP3 (t109650)
Hero (t57037)
Button (t42940)

Preflop: Hero is CO with A[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], 7[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img].
<font color="#666666">5 folds</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to t9000</font>, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, SB calls t7500, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>.

Flop: (t22350) 3[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], 4[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], 7[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">SB bets t9000</font>, Hero ?