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What about betting to narrow the field and take a free turn card?

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Narrowing the field here will be almost impossible. In a pot this big, everyone is going to peel and, at least against your hand, is right to do.

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Not only is it not impossible, it's extremely likely. No, not everyone is going to peel. Betting to narrow the field (say from 4 opponents to 2 or 3), and to also get a free card, has merit.

However, some of the folders might hold weaker aces or kings, so we don't want them to fold. Usually you use this sort of reasoning to get better aces to fold, to "clean up your ace outs". We have no outs to clean here - we like our outs just like they are (with the exception of A7 and A9 hands, but we probably can't fold those anyway.