Playing Pocket 7's from middle position

[Wyers]

IndianJ DOES NOT have AA.

I'd edit that to read "IndianJ PROBABLY DOES NOT have AA". Limping is with AA is fairly common with the 2/4 fish who think they are being tricky and clever.

That being said, I'm not anticipating AA and would almost certainly 3-bet this turn.

If he caps the turn, I'm feeling anxious about TT and check/call the river.

[Xhad]

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I think you played it fine. Calling down after the turn raise is fine since Villian is essentially unknown. You could've thought about bet/calling the river as an alternate to checking.

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Out of curiosity, is there any reason to prefer this line over reraising the turn and calling down a cap? Since we lose three more bets either way, the only thing I could think of was that we may not want to bet an A or T river since those cards are very likely to kill us.

I agree that an overset is not impossible (and something we have to suspect if Villain doesn't slow down), but I think people who limp "big" hands like AA and TT also tend to limp AKs and then go nuts if they hit the flop at all.

I find it very hard to put indian on AA. The only hands I can put him on are A 10, 10 10, or AK/AQ. With 10 10 being highly unlikely. I happily 3 bet the turn and lead the river. You are ahead to often not to get as many bets in as possible. If indian raises the river I may think about calling but would ultimately lean towards a 3 bet.

I have a hard time thinking that IndianJ has AA. I sometimes limp in UTG with them hoping for a raise. But if there are others, I'll raise with them. I don't want to get sucked out by 7-2 in the BB. I also think limping in with 77 is OK considering there was one dead posted blind already. After the pre-flop betting was done, he was still getting 5-1 on his money.

MM

[Xhad]

-Unlikely and impossible are not the same thing
-Not everyone plays the same as you do

[Songwind]

Bison's hand converter doesn't like the word "Texas." If you remove it, the converter works, like so:

Party Poker 2/4 Hold'em (8 handed) converter

Preflop: Hero is MP2 with 7[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], 7[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]. UTG posts a blind of $3.
UTG (poster) checks, <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, Hero calls, CO calls, <font color="#CC3333">Button raises</font>, SB calls, <font color="#666666">2 folds</font>, Hero calls, CO calls.

Flop: (10.50 SB) 7[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], A[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], T[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(5 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">SB bets</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises</font>, <font color="#CC3333">CO 3-bets</font>, Button folds, SB folds, <font color="#CC3333">Hero caps</font>, CO calls.

Turn: (9.75 BB) 5[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(3 players)</font>
<font color="#CC3333">Hero bets</font>, <font color="#CC3333">CO raises</font>, Hero calls.

River: (13.75 BB) 3[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(3 players)</font>
Hero checks, <font color="#CC3333">CO bets</font>, Hero calls.

Final Pot: 15.75 BB

[CptnNemo]

Songwind: Thanks for showing me how the converter worked, I don't like Texas much either...haha.