Look at this hand

First, off I've been reading for a while and just started online play... So look at this and tell me what you would...Ill post the results in a little bit.

#Game No : 1566461872
***** Hand History for Game 1566461872 *****
$25 NL Hold'em - Wednesday, February 09, 20:20:00 EDT 2005
Table Table 31104 (6 max) (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Total number of players : 3
Seat 3: xx_23 ( $15.5 )
Seat 8: cjahjoker ( $29.85 )
Seat 6: nealarm ( $44.45 )
nealarm posts small blind [$0.25].
cjahjoker posts big blind [$0.5].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to nealarm [ 7c 5h ]
xx_23 folds.
nealarm calls [$0.25].
cjahjoker checks.
** Dealing Flop ** [ 7d, 2c, 7s ]
nealarm checks.
cjahjoker bets [$0.5].
nealarm raises [$1].
cjahjoker calls [$0.5].
** Dealing Turn ** [ Ad ]
nealarm checks.
keari has joined the table.
cjahjoker checks.
** Dealing River ** [ Qh ]
nealarm checks.
cjahjoker bets [$3].
nealarm raises [$10].
dcpenn has joined the table.
cjahjoker is all-In [$25.35]


I basically have no read because this was my 5th or 6th hand at the table

raise more on the flop, lead the turn strong. If he's still in the hand, his river push wouldn't be much more money to call, so it becomes an easy call.

Why raise the flop .5? It's never folding anyone out and it's just telling your opponent that you're building a pot.

-'rilla

If you're playing any hand short-handed like that I'd like to raise with it, so a preflop raise would be good here.

Smooth call the flop.

Raise the turn more.

Any more chips to go in on the river.

nealarm calls [$18.35].
nealarm shows [ 7c, 5h ] three of a kind, sevens.
cjahjoker shows [ Kd, 7h ] three of a kind, sevens.
cjahjoker wins $58.7 from the main pot with three of a kind, sevens with king kicker.
Game #1566467676 starts.

I wouldn't have guessed he had that.

Why be in on this hand preflop? Let it go and at the least wait for a suited connector, mixing it up is fine, but like dwarfman stated if your going to play a hand like this raise preflop.

It was 3 handed, he was in the small blind. He figures to be a coinflip against an equally bad hand.

-'rilla

i suppose the only thing you could have done here then would have been to raise preflop, Mr. K7 is going to call you all the way down to the river after the flop, so preflop looks like the only option where a change could have been made. I highly dought he would be willing to lay this down to the turn or river.