Good post and great questions.

Preflop, I play (too?) loose. My calling standrards here are very loose, allmost everything suited, connected or one gapped starting from 64, hand that both cards are over 7.


I should have specified. I was playing about 40/28 that session, which was about 200 hands deep. Overall I play tighter. Opponent is 27/17 over lot of hands.


When I made the check-raise I thought I'm ahead here most of the time. SB isin't really an problem, because he seems to jam pots immidietly with good hands and draws. So I put him on either overcards or some kind of a weak draw.
When he three bets, I thought he might try to get free turn(something that he has done) so I decided to cap it here aswell as for the meta game reasons as said.


"Don't fold a pair on river" isin't a rule or so, but when the pot is big and i'm not against a nit I just don't fold there often.

In this hand happened exactly what you said about loosing to bigger pair when I hit my own. Opponent had 77 and completely outplayed me.

Live and learn..