Join Date: Apr 2006
Posts: 16,301
I play in too many damn casinos to remember, but isn't he obligated to raise if you just call on the flop? As to what you should have done differently, don't give the speech, I think you're absolutely turning your hand faceup (as a set) by giving the speech, calling, and then calling the raise OTF. Which also really screws up the dynamic of the hand -- if the guy's perceptive, he should only be betting hands on the turn that beat a set (which since you have 77 means he should only be betting 99, T8), unless he's turning his hand into a bluff to try to get you to fold a set because he believes that you believe that he knows you have one, which I think is highly unlikely, in which case given the speech the turn is close to a fold.