why would you defend your blind in a cash game with 72 off after having been raised?
i guess you feel like you may get lucky. I wonder at times about plays like this that do get lucky as the random number generator may be paying risk takers.
That is a very good question.
Here is a situation I witnessed at a live cash holdem table.
Player is a bigstack and raising almost every hand. Also telling the table how good of a player he is and how all his techniques and strategies are flawless. Fine.
New player comes to the table and gets told the same story. After losing a hand to this bigstack loudmouth the new player
tells him "I will get you. You will see."
I think you can see where this story is going lol.
Sure enough a few orbits later the bigstack raises and it folds around to the "I will get you" player's BB. And he defends a huge 7x opening raise with....yup....72o
Flop comes 772. The BB check calls every street and the pot gets bloated. He finally check shoves the river and the bigstack loudmouth instacalls off his stack w AA.
More words are exchanged and the bigstack leaves the table felted. With the BB telling him "I told you that I would get you!"
The table was shocked to see the
hands but also relieved to be rid of the bigstack player that was abusing the table.
Basically 72 is a very deceptive hand that many players will dismiss as a possibility of being held by their opponent.
I don't know what the player's plan was if he didn't get a good board for 72 - probably try to
bluff and then show the 72 to try to tilt the bigstack loudmouth.
Personally I don't like the whole idea. You can see from my story that big egos were involved. But in this situation it worked like a charm.
Good luck !