How would you play this hand post flop and why?

Playing 1-3 NL, 9 players.

The button straddles $6

Small blind calls $6

Big blind calls $6

Under the gun calls $6

Me: stack size is $240. I have Ac Jc. I raise to $35

All players behind me fold. Button, Small blind, Big blind all call $35. Under the gun folds.

Pot is $140

Flop comes out Ah Ks 3s

Small blind checks, Big blind checks

Comes to me. What would you do? Why?

You flop top pair good kicker in a multi-way pot with an SPR less than 2. Most likely you are going to get your stack in one way or another assuming any of those opponents has a hand. I do not see a need to bet this flop. You disguise your hand strength by checking and you will have ample opportunity to get it in on the later streets if the turn and river are favorable. I would check with the intent of betting ott assuming the flush draw does not complete.

Bomb it. Yolo

Not that you can put a lot of 'theory' into live low-limit NL .. but you are up against the 3 widest range positions in this hand and should only be worried about a set of 3s or a slow-played AK. You don't provide us with any 'image' information or whether or not the other stacks have you covered, so that limits some 'exact' thoughts.

I don't like checking against 3 opponents, why give a free card? I agree your hand is 'strong' but it doesn't have a lock on the hand. ALL of the Players basically made an error calling $29 more to set mine against a $240 stack, so I'm not giving them a free 4th card to realize their 'bad' implied odds.

I don't like 'hoping' that the B will bet so you can c/r, especially since if either or both of the blinds call the B bet your stack wont be large enough to give any fold-equity pause to any of these Players .. so it will be off to the races multi-way.

I want to bet so I can find the As and any Kx hands that will be stubborn. The question is what sizing do we use? You have 205 behind a 140 pot. 80 would be my min-bet, but that still offers close to 3-1 to any first caller and then 4-1 to any caller after that.

IMO you want folds, but you also don't want to discourage bad calls either. There's nothing wrong with a 30% bump to your stack by taking in $100 here. I come back to my unknown table dynamics now. You want to bet a sizing that will get you HU and that could be anything from 80 to a shove depending on the Players involved. Obv you don't know if AsXs is out there, but you should know that if any of these Players holds it what size bet they will call to continue .. and that's your target bet size. If no one will call a shove, then you need to pick a smaller size.

What I like in these spots is to put the draw into a position where they just can't fold the coming Turn shove but they also appreciate the 'discount' you gave them on the Flop. OR you offer them a super discount on the Flop (60-70) and then if it does go HU then you still have some meat, being 145, that you will shove on the Turn.

In my games I'm shoving a lot and possibly getting two callers, but at a minimum I'm betting 100 to try to charge the draws something.

If you're properly rolled, then you HAVE TO bet this Flop .. otherwise you have no business 3-betting this hand at a table where you going to get both Blinds coming along. Really? UTG folded when closing action and the Blinds came along? This is a dream spot to just shove and either get someone to commit a mistake by calling or you take down a 'free' 100 against those wide ranges. Yes, you may run into 33/AQ on occasion and get drawn out on, but at least you will have charged them 'bad' prices to hit their hands and that's good poker. GL

Well you are vs 3 players and you block straight draws and there are 2 spades on the board.
I would Not give a free card in this spot. Probably would 1/3 pot size bet this and go from there
and see what the turn looks like.
You hand is strong but its not mega strong. This is the type hand where it is importent
to consider the actions of the other player even more so than you normally would.