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Originally Posted by Man of Means
Checking the turn. More worried about BB than BTN and trying to get to showdown cheaply now.
Could go either way on the flop. With AA you're not worried about overcards - you welcome someone catching a pair on the turn - whereas JJ has more incentive to bet
With this many people in the hand, and two straight cards out there, I think we should bet tiny, to at least get the gutshots out. Otherwise, any Turn 3,4,5,8,9, or T completes a potential straight (and, hey, also not bad to deny equity to the baby pocket pairs that could turn full houses against us).
We're still keeping the pot small, but we're not giving up just because there's a pair on the board--AA will still be the best hand on this board some of the time. We have incentives to thin the field without bloating the pot too much.