Ouch, what can I do to avoid beats similar to this?

***** Hand History for Game 2416666567 *****
$50 NL Texas Hold'em - Sunday, July 24, 15:15:06 EDT 2005
Table Table 36598 (Real Money)
Seat 9 is the button
Total number of players : 10
Seat 1: pwells21 ( $24.71 )
Seat 9: DMKAI3 ( $48.10 )
Seat 10: heartbrave ( $58.12 )
Seat 6: mroper1979 ( $30.30 )
Seat 5: anseon ( $34.35 )
Seat 8: surfacesys ( $10.94 )
Seat 3: punkmonktoo ( $66.40 )
Seat 2: glennvdog ( $56.70 )
Seat 4: gvillemike ( $52.25 )
Seat 7: mafbronx ( $49 )
heartbrave posts small blind [$0.25].
pwells21 posts big blind [$0.50].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to mroper1979 [ 7h 7c ]
glennvdog folds.
punkmonktoo calls [$0.50].
gvillemike folds.
anseon folds.
mroper1979 raises [$4].
mafbronx folds.
surfacesys calls [$4].
DMKAI3 folds.
heartbrave folds.
pwells21 folds.
punkmonktoo folds.
** Dealing Flop ** [ 2h, Kd, Th ]
mroper1979 bets [$6.94].
surfacesys is all-In [$6.94]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Ks ]
** Dealing River ** [ 4h ]
mroper1979 shows [ 7h, 7c ] two pairs, kings and sevens.
surfacesys shows [ 3h, Tc ] two pairs, kings and tens.
surfacesys wins $21.98 from the main pot with two pairs, kings and tens.

I certainly didnt put him on a 2 or a ten because of the 4 dollar call pre-flop. I know I probably should have folded when the K hit, but.. any advice on my play of this hand in general?

Don't raise that crap preflop. Read the pre flop strategies.

With pocket 7s, you'll almost always you'll get one overcard on the flop, most of the time two. There's a page I can't find that's been posted here with the exact percentages of an overcard falling when you're holding pockets, but from my calculations it's around %94 when you have 77. These hands should be played for the set.

If you put your op all in, the only hands that are calling here have got you beat. He's paid 40% of his stack to get in preflop, he's gonna push the rest if he hits any single bit of that flop.

Yes, he had cards that made this hand a bad beat, but in the long run, you're going to lose tons of money playing like this.

There's nothing wrong with raising small and middle pairs occasionally for purposes of deception, but I don't see why you're raising to 8 times the big blind.

After the flop, I probably would've put the other guy all-in on the flop as well since it's not unlikely you have the best hand, and you might get him to fold, 8-8, 9-9, J-J or Q-Q. You just happened to put this play on a fool who was willing to call with a wide range of hands regardless of what you were representing.

This isn't a bad beat, though.

dont play 77 so freaking fast.

-'rilla