I flop the nuts (almost)

[mongidig]

I think this is actually close. With 8 players seeing the flop the pot is already getting big which means it might be worthwile to raise to clear up some outs or giving our Ace a better chance to hold up if it hits on the turn against a smaller field. If this had been a raised pot and especially if the preflop raisor was on our left this would be even more applicable.

True, we may get check threebet which could shut out some potentiall customers but this could also happen if we just call and are check-raised.

I can't argue with just calling here though.