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You gotta bet the flop with an overpair. You don't have to call if they raise you, but you gotta bet.
When you didn't bet, you leveled yourself and got scared without any reason to be scared. How many 7's are in your opponent's pre-flop range? The bottom line is that your opponent has a lot of cards bigger than 7 in his range and, and the hands with 7's are only a portion of all the hands he could have.
If you bet the flop... now he has to be scared you have the 7... so you push the pressure onto him.
Unless he's a blindly raising bluff maniac, then you can be pretty sure that if he check/raises you on this flop, that your TT's have medium equity at most. He could be doing that with 88's, 99's (which you beat), or he could have JJ, QQ, KK, AA, 7x, which you have very little chance of beating. Maybe you think he would re-raise with AA, or KK, so maby those are less likely, but it's still not looking pretty for you. There are more hands that you lose to than hands that you beat.
For now, just think about that. Pot odds can sway your decision the other direction, but it's another level of complexity on top of this.
Focus on this for a while.
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