Hand analysis

[mike l.]

the rest of your post is nonsense but this line on it's own is so lovely and true, not just of this hand discussed, but of all raises of all time, and of the whole poker process:

"the raise is this player's way of breaking the endless cycle by doing something, anything different than the great majority of players who would just sit back and let the cards devour them in total silence."

[j.k.]

[Kenshin]

I will neither call you a fish nor an unthinking player (I simply have no idea of the quality of your play); however, you flop call here fails to pass a very simple test of mine. I call it the "would I want" test: namely, would I want someone holding 77 who calls a mp raise with no other callers to play in my game. My answer is a resounding yes.