Final Table Hand for Review

[FatMan]

This was from a $2500 free-roll on Party. This was my first final table in a big MTT. Almost 1900 players. I think I played this hand way too passively. My read on what the SB had was a small PP or two overcards. His bet on the river though got me thinking he had somthing (like he was slowplaying an A) as a it was only 1/3 of the pot and he was trying to get me to bluff back at him.

Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t20000 (7 handed) converter

Button (t92036)
SB (t259919)
BB (t62900)
UTG (t731118)
MP1 (t392723)
MP2 (t118710)
Hero (t180594)

Preflop: Hero is CO with J[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], T[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]. SB posts a blind of t20000.
<font color="#666666">4 folds</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to t40000</font>, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, SB (poster) calls t20000.

Flop: (t80000) A[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], 5[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], 7[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
SB checks, <font color="#CC3333">Hero bets t40000</font>, SB calls t40000.

Turn: (t160000) 8[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
SB checks, Hero checks.

River: (t160000) 7[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">SB bets t53000</font>, Hero folds.

Final Pot: t213000

I like my raise on the button to try and steal the blinds. My questions are:

1) Should I have bet more on the flop?
2) Should I have fired at it againg on the turn?

[runout_mick]

Has a minraise been stealing the blinds?

[FatMan]

About 50% of the time it had been.

[schwza]

i can't tell exactly what's happening from the converter. is there only one blind? if so, i'd fold pre-flop. i don't think your chances of stealing go up by too much with one blind instead of two, but you're only getting 2/3 the reward.

given your minraise, that exactly how i would play post-flop.

[FatMan]

There were two blinds for a total of 30K in blinds. This hand occurred close after two people got knocked out on a JJ vs QQ, vs AK hand, so I felt a steal here would work as the table would tighten up after two people busted out on the same hand. Looking back a minraise probably wasn't the best thing.

[schwza]

so you bet 40k into a pot of 100k on the flop? i'd have bet a little more.

i'd still fold pre-flop though. the BB should be calling with really bad hands like Q5, so it's not the time to raise without big cards. (i'd prefer KTo here, even though JTs is usually a better hand).