Hey guys, I'm typically a SNG/MTT grinder and I've decided to do 1k hands of 25NL every session for learning purposes, so please bare with me.

I'm interested in this spot to work out when we should cold call here for set mining, against what villains, and how to spot a profitable set mine in these spots.

Cheers

PokerStars Zoom Hand #117299495563: Hold'em No Limit ($0.10/$0.25) - 2014/06/09 21:10:06 NZT [2014/06/09 5:10:06 ET]
Table 'Hydra' 6-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: gleems ($22.43 in chips)
Seat 2: Bengobeng21 ($46.18 in chips)
Seat 3: Darsolation ($39.94 in chips)
Seat 4: androasz ($28.25 in chips)
Seat 5: Gega78 ($25.52 in chips)
Seat 6: Matusv7 ($25 in chips)
Bengobeng21: posts small blind $0.10
Darsolation: posts big blind $0.25
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Darsolation [7s 7d]
androasz: folds
Gega78: folds
Matusv7: folds
gleems: raises $0.37 to $0.62
Bengobeng21: raises $1.88 to $2.50
Darsolation:

Fold, we still have an opponent behind us who is perfectly capable of 4b'ing here. And then you just burned money. Even if you closed the action I would fold since we probably don't get the right odds(to lazy to calculate atm) and we are OOP.

Hey man! I came from MTTs and SNGs originally. This is a pretty fist-pump fold here. We don't know if the original raiser will 4bet here, we can't just call here at all.

I'd only call if the 3-bet was real tiny, like minimum sized

At a minimum You both would need at least 10x the size of the 3-bet to even consider it, and that'd be with position 'knowing' they have AA, KK (and really only with position)

Now if he opened for .60 total, and the 3-bettor made it .95 - 1.20

I'd assume you were up against AA, KK and you'd have over 20x the size of the 3-bet to stack AA with your set. With that much to win, I don't see an issue with risking 5% of your stack even out of position. (And make sure you lead out if you flop that set vs an overpair)