[Melchiades]

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Then again, if you're going to think about taking a check-call approach where you have an over-pair to the board, then betting is better then check-calling and it is much cheaper to find out where you're at.

Again, if "no-set, no-bet" then be weak-tight a$$ and check-fold.

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If you don't want to play this hand cautiously, raise preflop. It's that simple. Also betting might make the hand easier to play since you can fold to a raise from the PF raiser, but then again you might just as well have any two cards here. Also you let your opponent play perfectly and you don't get a c-bet out of whiffed overcards. Betting feels pretty close to plain bad for me. Check call, see what happens on the turn. If he fires again, play poker. Probably fold unless he is very two barrel happy.

By leading out into the preflop raiser here in a multiway pot we are showing real strength, we are repping much more strength than we actually have. That makes the hand easy to play since we are basicly bluffing with a marginal made hand, but is not the way to get value out of our hand.