Re: Balance between cheap cards and pot building with marginal hands
I am a donkey but... the more I learn this game, the fewer small blinds I complete. Completing may seem cheap, but you're OOP to the entire table as soon as you do it.
This hand is an absolute no-question-about-it preflop fold. Maybe not if the entire table had folded around to you and it's just a blind battle, but definitely with anyone else calling.
If you see a Q on the flop, two players behind you may also have one, in which case you're outkicked and OOP and you're going to get killed.
If you see a 7-high flop like you did, then any turn/river card higher than a 7 (aside from a Q) will scare you, and even a Q will have it's problems, as above.
The only way you make money on this is by betting out the flop and having everyone else fold, and if they don't, you're dead.
Dump it. POSITION RULES, and you don't have it. (Not that I would even call it from the button; Q7o just isn't playable for a profit.)
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