Home game, $300 buy in, dealer antes $5. Most of games are HE, O8, 7 hilo etc... no wild cards. We play either $10-20 or PL. Game is very aggressive, but extremely loose.

Anyway, 3rd hand dealt (ie. everyone has equal stacks of $300 approx.).

I'm dealt 5-6-7, all spades. Damn...why couldn't they call hilo.

J bets $10, gets 3 callers. I decide to just smooth call. BTW, we almost never play 7 stud high only, and when we do its usually limit.

Fourth Street:

(J) 2
(7) 3
(5) 6 (me).

J-2 bets $25, 7-3 calls, I decide to just call.

Fifth street: J pulls 9, 7 pulls Q, I pull 4 clubs.

Jack checks, Q bets $100. He is a maniac, and I am almost 100% certain he is bluffing. With my small pair, 4 straight and backdoor low, I reraise my final $80 (I lost first few hands of night).

J folds, Q, realizing he is beat, calls because the pot odds frankly warrant it. We turn over our cards: all he has is a pair of sevens.

I don't improve, neither does he, and he takes down sizable pot.

Did I make a good play with a bad outcome, or do I need to brush up on my seven stud. Obviously, if this had been limit it would have been much easier to play.

Thanks.

Tim