Why would we donk into two active players? How much do the guys with the AA and KK hate each other or us? At no point in a poker game can we stop playing poker. If you're limping in EP, you'd better know your customers and how you plan to extract value. Maybe a donk will get spite capped before it gets back to you, and if so, donking could be expert. It could be that the other two guys will put in infinite raises to "protect their hands" on the flop. If you flop a set to two overpairs and get in exactly one raise, maybe you shouldn't be set mining?
This stuff is why you need to pay attention in the game. When the pots got big, how did the money go in? You've now left the TAG nation and are playing speculative poker. When you hit, you need to be able to make big pots with the best hand. How do you do it?
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How much action are we really going to give?
This is the one time a nit image could really hurt you. If you only ever raise sets or better, someone might decide to not give you any action. Or, maybe they just keep raising with AA.
However, as the kind of player who is set mining in good game conditions, jamming draws, and other non-standard stuff, the hope is we get plenty of action now that we're near nutted. The people who are paying attention have seen that our raise button isn't dusty. I took TheDarkKnight's post to mean that we shouldn't slowplay the flop. Agree that this is the standard advice and we need a good reason not to play fast. x/3! could be the line.