A hand vs Rizen in stars 109 double stack

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it seems like the two schools of thought are:

1) you should be calling this flop because that's what you would do with 77+ so he can two-barrel air, hit a six outer to improve, and stack off with QQ+ (possibly JJ+) on later streets anyway; or

2) you should be raising this flop because that's what you'd do with TT+, AK/air, and so Rizen should 3bet the flop lighter and you get his chips here.

i tend to fall in line with (1), but i'm not totally convinced it's correct... it's just the style of play i've become comfortable with, i guess.

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I look at it a tad differently.

Villain thinks he's up against Ace/good kicker and Hero thinks he's up against mid-pair.

Villain betting the flop narrows screams mid-pair (if he plays as tight/solid as everyone says he does.)

Now the question, IMO, is how to extract max value from mid-pair.

LAG's raise the flop 100% of the time.
TAG's are screwed.

You raise it screams set.
You call on this dry board it screams set.

If I'm a TAG I'm raising a tad over min-to 700.
Hopefully he likes the come-over-the-top-of-me window, if not I start milking turn and river.