Thanks again. I acknowledge that poke4fun is right and I am trying too hard to 'solve' this particular hand based on the results:

On the turn, villain was on a two-outer to win the pot, which means he'll suck out on us only ~5% of the time, so we're a huge favourite. We're not betting the turn to blow him out of the pot, we're hoping he calls cuz he's a massive underdog and this is printing money. I'd recommend betting more on the turn, not for him to be more likely to fold (again, we don't want that), but to set up a river situation where stack / pot sizes will be such that it will be a lot more easier for him to call a shove.

It is highly highly unlikely that greater turn aggression blows this player off of two pair. Players at this level just don't fold 2pair hands unless there's a 4-flush or 4-straight on the board, and even then, not always. Obviously, yes, we want a hand that is usually going to think that it's best and is drawing to 2 outs to call us. We want to bet so as to maximize the amount of Other People's Money that gets into the pot by showdown.

One of the most important, and least intuitive, concepts of poker is avoiding results-oriented thinking. Just because you got crushed in this one particular hand (congrats on popping what sounds like your cash-game-stack cherry - wait til you hit your four-digit cherry, it's a fun one) doesn't mean you should have been able to find a spot to fold. The game just doesn't work like that.

So… I took a little too long to get to almost the right place for the wrong reasons, both in this hand and ITT?

Basically, yeah . You were supposed to lose your ass this hand, and should be willing to do so again in a heartbeat.

OP,

- Pay attention to the 7 (now 8) people in this thread who point out your turn bet is too small.

- Preflop action pretty much eliminates KK from V's range. Ask yourself - what would flat the preflop raise in MP, then flat you on that flop, and the turn, on this Sahara of a board?

Kept bet fairly small in case I got raised by a higher set, ..........................are you ****ing serious????????????????? there is your first problem

I just looked up the probability of flopping set-over-set.

Feel free to point and laugh, I deserve it for that one.

villain has 4 outs on the turn, not two.

5 5 7 7

but your point is still valid.

We have the red fives in our hand.

LOL, I'm dumb

Hand is fine preflop and on the flop.
Prob should bet a bit more on the turn.
River, you are obviously calling the shove, there really isn't a question here. You know you're calling the river each and every time here for $82 more into this size pot. This honestly is more of a bad beat post than a search for advice.

i like the way u played it alot

ruff beat

keep ya head up!

+1

If your scared of playing your monsters fast, your in big trouble. Also, if I was raised with 77's on a x7x88 board online, I would maybe fold, villain dependent, but when I'm raised with a boat in a live 1/2 game, I'm shipping unless the villain has proved himself pretty far above average.

You gotta play your big hands for big pots.

Reread these two replies, while the 1st is a bit hard to read, it accurately describes what you should be thinking.

And this, which may take you a while to get after your horrific beat. Still, it is what you should feel (note, I said feel, not think).

Don't know how the action went in the other hand where you folded 77 on 887xx, but sounds like you shouldn't have folded there either. And you definitely shouldn't have told villain that you folded, because then he thinks you're a nit and he is unlikely to raise here for "thin value" with a 7, knowing that you'd fold everything worse.
Definitely don't consider folding here - perhaps lead a little bigger on flop and go for a check/shove on the turn. Personally I would check this flop.