My first post, I play on WSOP so do not have access to hand history files thus typed this out by hand, so apologies if there are errors/nonconformities. Any advice and ideas are much appreciated. The BB had been playing on the tighter side although had earlier been sitting with 40bb and never reloaded, not sure what that indicates but thought fishy.

$0.01/$0.02 No Limit Hold'em Cash, 7 Players


BTN: $3.94 (197 bb)
SB: $1.04 (102 bb)
BB: $2.10 (96.4 bb)
Hero: $2.00 (100 bb)
MP1: $2.28 (114 bb)
MP2: $5.37 (268.5 bb)
CO: $1.85 (92.5 bb)

Preflop: Hero is UTG + 1 with 77
Hero calls to $0.02, MP1 folds, MP2 folds, CO folds, BTN folds, SB calls $0.02, BB raises to $0.04, Hero calls $.02, SB calls $.02

Flop: ($0.12) 2 9 7 (3 players)
SB checks, BB bets $0.06, Hero calls $0.06, 1 fold
Turn: ($0.23) J (2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets $.14, BB raises to $0.28, Hero calls $0.14

River: ($0.76) 10 (2 players)
BB bets $0.40, Hero folds

OTT you lose to exactly T8s, jj, 99 so just reraise gii, river card sucks but isn't that bad since it improves only 68s. You shouldn't fold river as played. Overpairs, 2pair, jx will stack off against you ott. V seems fishy or stationy reg at best.

I still have the "monsters under the bed" fear and incorrectly thought by rr turn only better hands would continue. Any thoughts on limping small pp preflop vs opening (any difference in theory when in EP vs MP or LP)? Also, is a call better than a raise on flop? My thoughts on just calling the flop were that it is so dry.

pre-flop is fine. When you are playing against observant opponents they'll often clock a limp-call as being a small/medium pocket pair if you're stats are generally TAG-ish but I think at say 2nl and 5nl it's probably the optimal way to play them from EP. The trick is to get to see flops for as little as possible since you’ll have to fold them almost all the time. However when you hit start betting and don’t stop. In this hands that means raising on the flop with the intention of getting it in.

In a raised multiway flop I'd definitely not slowplay, you are likely to get some action, I'd bet big or check raise. On the turn it opens up some straight and flush possibilities so I'd look to raise big again to protect the hand and get all in if reraised.