Re: Can I fold here?
Some general comments:
In a situation like this, I ask myself if I have the best hand, and if I can scoop with a good river. Here, the answers are probably and yes. Those are good answers.
In this hand, six players see the flop, whereupon it becomes heads up. If this was a common pattern for this table, a tricky player may do as villian did as a set play. Against two opponents it will get him broke, but heads up it may be a money maker with a lot of cheesey hands.
It's possible to make your turn decision on the flop, when you potted it with top set, rather than on the turn. You had the option of considering your top set as a draw and smooth calling, or considering it as something stronger and raising. Here you raised. I'm not criticizing your play, but when I pot it on the flop in this situation, I'm pretty much committed to putting the rest of it in on the turn: seven cards improve me, the rest put a better hand or draw out there, so I pretty much know what's coming.
jmo
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