The main mistake is, that you worry about the outcome. You got your chips in on the flop with 72%
equity, and if you had won the hand, it would almost certainly never have ended up here in the forum. Then you would just have moved on and felt, you played it well. But because the board runout was bad for you, now you have questions about the hand. And this is a major mistake, so the main thing to take away from this hand is to
STOP BEING RESULTS ORIENTED.
With that being said I agree with the previous comments, that calling preflop was the worst of your options and a fairly significant mistake. If you call here, the limper is usually calling as well, and now you are monkey in the middle in a bloated pot with a low SPR, where your hand perform extremely poorly. Sure life is nice and easy, when you flop a set, but 7 out of 8 times, you dont flop a set, and then you are rarely going to win with 77 against two opponents.
With small and medium pairs we either want to have a deep enough SPR to profitably setmine, or we want to be all-in preflop, so that we get to realise our equity even on boards with multible overcards on them. As a rule of thumb there need to be 25 or at least 20 times the amount left, which you put in preflop, so in this case at the bare minimum 8.000 chips, and they only had 3.000.
So this was a spot, where calling was not a good option, and therefore its between jamming and folding. And both these decisions are acceptable. If you think, SB is a little on the nitty side and only raising very strong
hands, then this was an easy fold. But if you think, he was on the loose side and raising something close to 20% of hands, then 77 is a marginally profitable jam.
It also depends on, what overall strategy you want to use. In
freerolls you cant lose, so its completely acceptable to take on some marginal spots like this to basically "go strong or go home". If you get called by a hand like AT and win, now you have a large stack and a good chance of cashing, and if you lose, you probably bust a few hands later, and then you are done with the thing and can spend your time on something else.
As played when you flop a set, you should be 100% in stack-off mode even on a monotone board. Yes sometimes you will be behind to a flush, but even then you have around 35% equity, and people are also going to be getting it in with a ton of draws like the one, he had here, or with worse made hands like top pair. So raising the flop was the correct decision, but because the pot was already so big, you should simply have jammed rather than min-clicked.
Help me with an indication of my mistakes in the drawing of this hand.!Thank you in advance!)
