77 Flops a set- Misplayed? PP$11

[JP Rocks]

I think I was destined to lose all my chips here, but would a call have been better? Any raise would have been more than 40%, hence the push. Any improvements?

Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t15 (9 handed) converter (http://www.selachian.com/tools/bisonconverter/hhconverter.cgi)

UTG (t905)
UTG+1 (t715)
MP1 (t730)
MP2 (t1700)
MP3 (t810)
CO (t845)
Button (t640)
SB (t770)
Hero (t885)

Preflop: Hero is BB with 7/images/graemlins/club.gif, 7/images/graemlins/spade.gif.
<font color="#666666">2 folds</font>, MP1 calls t15, MP2 calls t15, MP3 calls t15, CO calls t15, Button calls t15, SB completes, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to t90</font>, MP1 calls t75, MP2 calls t75, MP3 calls t75, CO calls t75, Button calls t75, SB calls t75.

Flop: (t630) 6/images/graemlins/spade.gif, T/images/graemlins/heart.gif, 7/images/graemlins/diamond.gif <font color="#0000FF">(7 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">SB bets t200</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to t795 (All-In)</font>, MP1 folds, MP2 folds, MP3 folds, CO calls t755 (All-In), Button folds, SB folds.

Turn: (t2380) J/images/graemlins/spade.gif <font color="#0000FF">(2 players, 2 all-in)</font>

River: (t2380) 4/images/graemlins/spade.gif <font color="#0000FF">(2 players, 2 all-in)</font>

Final Pot: t2380

Results in white below: <font color="#FFFFFF">
Hero has 7c 7s (three of a kind, sevens).
CO has 8h 9s (straight, jack high).
Outcome: CO wins t2340. Hero wins t40. </font>

[chisness]

i'd check pre and push flop

[jeffraider]

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i'd check pre and push flop

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Yep. Why raise?

[JP Rocks]

Well, usually I would just play the 7s for set value, but I wanted to see hom many people would fold to a decent bet. I guess it was a bit of a data mine... Interesting thing is that I probably wouldnt have pushed if I had just checked (due to the smaller pot), but would probably have lost all my chips at any rate.

[flyingmoose]

You're going broke on that flop no matter what, but I hate your preflop raise. I hate it as I hate hell and all Montagues.

[NYCNative]

I hate the PF raise. The fact that exactly zero people folded says all you need to know about that. Either raise really big (which I don't like much but it's still better than what you did and maybe it makes people think you have a big pair which will help if you're playing a flop out of position) or just check.

You might have got beat with so many people in the pot but I push the flop as well and hope nobody played 89 or got a bigger set. I am assuming the backdoor flush didn't get you, or did it?