I played in the casino the other night and was dealt a pair of sevens in late position, it got folded round to me as the blinds were 2-400, I raised 2500
...Your 6.25x BB raise seems a bit much here. A 3-4x raise would've been fine. I would actually bet a bit lower, maybe 2.5x-3x
, and got called by the button, the blinds folded.
....Pot is 5600
Now my chip stack was quite good at around 12000 the average was 14000 but I did arive late for the tournament so was catching up a bit.
...Just a note, you're sitting on 30BBs.
The flop came 5,3,8 rainbow and that it would be unlikely to help the button and I thought that was a good flop for me. I tried to think what the button had and thought the chances of him having a higher pair were slim I pushed AI and got called by him with a pair of 9's turn and river did not help so I went out.
...I agree, that flop looks pretty safe for a pair of 7s, but what I don't understand why you thought his chances of a higher pair is slim? Other than the villain's preflop call-what reads do you have on this opponent in this particular hand?
I also hate your shove all-in without any positive information from your opponent. First of all, you're risking way too much such a tiny pot. You started off with 12K and raised it to 2500, leaving you with 9500. You shove 9500 to win a pot of 5600. One problem with your huge PF raise is it makes the pot bigger and harder to let go of because you've put in so much. A standard c-bet of 3/4's the pot is 4200, nearly 50% of your stack-so you can easily find yourself committed to this pot with a small pair. Where-as if you had bet smaller, you're c-bet isn't as big and will still leave you with enough BBs to play with if you have to fold or you lose the hand. But as played, I would've bet out about 1/3 of the pot for information. You might win the hand if opponent missed completely, fold if he raises, or try and got showdown cheap. If you lose, you still have 18BBs left to play with. You're getting the valued information you need to but not losing you're entire stack on a single pair.
I'd like to ask my fellow CC posters if I played this good should I have just checked or bet half the pot rather than AI, I thought he would be holding AK or AQ as having two PP's next to each other is very rare. Anyway thanks all again for your great advice. The sniper