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This is a VERY common mis-application of the "waiting until the turn to raise" concept. A lot of players believe that since there is no way to protect their hand that they should wait for the turn. The fact is that with a set, you don't NEED to protect your hand on the flop. Your equity is high enough that you're making an IMMEDIATE profit on every bet that goes into the pot.

Re-read this section in SSH and you'll see that NOWHERE does it advocate waiting until the turn with a hand as strong as a set.

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Although I agree with the content of your post, and that this hand should not be slowplayed, in OP's defense I don't think that he was "waiting until the turn to protect his hand" so much as he was trying to extract max value from what he perceived was a situation in which he had a virtual lock on a ragged board.

Had you flopped quads and it was checked to you, a slowplay might be fine just to assure that your bet doesn't fold everybody. But you've got a big pot, your hand, though quite strong, is not a lock, and most importantly someone is betting into you! If you have a nice laggy image, you might get somebody to 3-bet you with 88 or something like that and keep trapping those MF'ers.