Played 1-2 NL today. Max bet is 100. I had almost $300 in my stack (the max), and had been playing for 3 hours. First hour I was playing tight and got no action. I decided to open up. I began calling from the highjack cutoff and button with connectors (87+), suited connectors (65s+), suited gappers (75s+), and the occasional suited two gapper Q9s+ J8+s, T7+s. I was picking up quite a few pots with these hands at show down.

My last hand of the day:

Villain raises 16$ (4x because of a live straddle). I sat just to his left with JT and decided to call since the guy straddling was playing loose and so were both the blinds. I was looking to get a multi-way pot against some fishier opponents. No else calls and we went heads up to the flop.

Flop comes:

7h 8h 8d

villain raises $40
I re-raise to $140.
villain calls

at this point I figure villain has 77 or Big suited ace (his raising range), seemingly the only way he would call against my range.

turn comes:

2s

check
check

River comes:

2c

so the board reads:

7h 8h 8d 2s 2c

villain checks
I bet another $100
villain calls

He turns over QQ and I muck my hand. I walk away from the table listening to several players saying I cannot believe he called, and I thought he had the 8.

I am not sure if this was a terrible mistake specially the second $100 bet on the river, or had the misfortune of bluffing a call station.

your line makes absolutely no sense, standard call by him

Not really a massive bluff when you don't even get all-in.

After your river bet of $100 into the $320 pot, why didn't you put in the other $44 so that you were betting $144 all-in into the $320 pot? Given the pot odds it's a ridiculously easy call for the villain to make, particularly when the turn checks through.

Your post-flop bet sizes are all messed up and also after the villain pots the flop, you're trying to bluff in a terrible spot in my opinion.

Given how you played it and the board, it would be a standard call even with A high.

no overpairs? are you saying you fold big pairs, QQ+ here always?

looks like villain played with perfectly imo with that turn and river card.

Your play is atrocious. Your breakdown of his range is just silly. You have allowed him to make extremely easy/standard decisions on every street. I find it unlikely that you walked away from the table "listening to several players saying I cannot believe he called."

I suppose I did play the hand wrong. Thanks for the help guys. In regards to bet sizing, the game I was playing only allows bets of $100 or less.

you should of folded on the flop.

Not as harsh as some of the criticism above but yeah, a fold here was probably the right move.

I really am not a fan of the raise on the flop. But, since you did it, I would have taken his decision to call that raise as a GIANT red flag which would more or less be cause to shut down until the 9 you were looking for peeled. Check/fold after flop.

Standard call here with any over pair. No 1/2 players slow down on turn with an 8. Expecially in a $100 max game.

Realley bad 2 street bluff.

harsh criticism in some comments but they are correct in saying your analysis in this hand is off. After he calls on the flop you have to give him credit for 10s+ and pretty much give up the hand given that the max bet is only 100 dollars and the pot had ballooned to 300+...in this particular game where 100 is max bet its more prudent to make small raises and you'll get the same info...