It was the later stages of a tourney everyone was in the money at the point. I don't remember everything too accurately so I will give some insight on what I remember. It's 7 handed I'm in the HJ and open off 25-30BB's with 109ss. CO calls, BU calls and BB calls.

FLOP: : J86r I C-bet about 30% pot and CO 2.5xish raises and it folds around to me and I call.

TURN: Kx I check and villain bets about 50ish% pot and I folded.

I thought about shoving to make it seem like I have a K in my hand and that would get him to fold all his Jx hands but didn't know enough about the player to want to so I played it safe and folded. I put him either on a set of 6's, 8's or KJs. However after putting some thought into it, I think about it, does villain ever really raise a set here on a rainbow board with more players left to act? Wouldn't a set here just flat the flop and hope more players come in to make more money? As the game went on this player was caught bluffing a few times and made some questionable bluffs (ex betting huge on with an under pair on a double paired board etc..)

There's no way im calling in this spot so for me it was either shove or fold and I played it safe and folded. Thoughts??

I wouldn't necessarily say that a set would slowplay this. I might not slowplay this with a set. Imagine if you have a set, you slowplay, another person calls, and a 7 comes. Now T9, the most likely straight, has come in. How are you supposed to navigate this?

That said, you probably were correct to fold turn. It's a crappy spot but you just aren't getting enough implied odds to call unless you are super deep (and based on the fact that this is late in a tournament I am presuming you were not deep).

Where I would play differently is on the flop. There are four players and it's a connected board. You're probably not blowing all of these people off their hand, and you could get blown off your own hand if someone raises you (which is what happened). I would just check-call.

This may be wrong but I think I like checking back flop to realize our equity. This spot, is going to be x raised at way too high of a freq against 3 other players- don’t cbet. It’s so unlikely you get 3 folds here with a hand that needs help. I think I would cbet against 1 villian like a sb or bb call but not against 3 players.

If you check, you can call a turn bet and realize your equity. As played, you fold turn and lose. Stacks are shallow so it’s not hard to get it in on 2 streets potentially if you bink a straight on the turn.

I lean more cbet as an exploit when you flop 2 clubs and this type of flop with straight outs bc you can comfortable rip over a x raise.

Don’t bet flop here. Realize equity and then bet when you turn a straight / call a turn bet to see the river.

Against 3+ opponents after raising pre-flop there are no cbets. We can bet if we like the flop but for value reasons or semi-bluffs. Typically when there are people in the hand that have position on me I won't bet the flop because it may get raised by them. I prefer to see what the betting looks like in case there is a raise. I have bluffed with air vs 3 opponents when the flop is major good for my range but it doesn't work much.

In this hand while it would be nice to build a pot because we have a straight draw (and possibly BDFD) I'd rather just check so that we don't get raised by CO or BTN and limit the field. If one of them bets its possible a blind will call as well.