Hi,everyone,
There were less than 50 players registered in this tour, and I had a tough time from the very beginning, although the game was not hard to beat. I could see 2 or 3 reg on each table.
Starting chips were 12,000 and each level would last for an hour. When this hand happened, I just lost a big pot and had less than 9,000 remained. The blinds were 150/300.
I had AAK6 ss utg. If I raise, no matter how much, I was pretty sure that there would be several callers, so I just limped and planned to give up if I didn't hit set A. I got 2 limpers behind. SB mini raise to 600 and BB called. Since I could put more than1/3 of my stack in the pot preflop, I raised the pot to 3000. SB and BB called. Flop came with 77J of two spades. SB raised 4000, and BB folded. I did not have any spade in my hand.
My thought was that SB did not have J full house, otherwise,he would just X/C my allin. He could have a 7, or hit a J with flush draw. Since SPR was less than 0.5, I moved allin with less than 6,000. SB showed 6789ds, and I did not catch my A, so I got knocked out.
Before I moved allin, I really felt that I was beat. If I folded, I still had around 20bb, and that was enough to make my way back in this game, considering most of my opponents were easy to beat.
My questions are:
1. Did I make a mistake preflop to raise the pot?
2.Should I fold if I really think I am beat?So, I can wait for a better chance to gamble?

Thanks
Bob