[bozlax]

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I would have bet the flop because, although you have many opponents, you dont know whether anyone else will bet if you dont.

Your outs are not to the nuts, but with your flush draw (1 to a str. flush), I would have thought that you probably had an equity edge on the flop to make betting worthwhile.

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This is a situation where I'm not too worried about giving out a freebie, and I'd rather know I have an equity edge (by seeing a bet and a couple of calls) before I try to exploit it.

However, I will say that I just looked back at the hand and Hero checking the turn after betting the flop and being called around is pretty bad, given that he just picked up 3 more outs.