[theNorwigianViking]

I belive the best course of action is to lead a little over half pot on the flop. There is a lot of worse hands that can call you, and by betting you deny equity to those hands. Many of the worse hands that will likely call you are top-pair hands and pair + flush draw hand. These hand combinations are common in the limpers range. In this multiway pot and specific bord, these are often being checked back. This displays how you are likely to get greater action by betting. Slow playing definitely has a place in a winning poker strategy, however, this flop is not were you want to implement it. Furthermore, you fold out some hands with significant equity, primarily Jx and 10x.

The lead on the flop also enables you to bet the rest of your stack on most turns, and put a great number of worse hands, with often considerable equity, to the test (K-10 has for example 27% equity on brick turns).

I can see your reasoning for checking. You have just flopped a massive hand and want maximum value. In some instances this could be the best course of action, however, because of the very cordinated board, supplemented with the fact that this are a multiway pot, i have illustrated why I think that is a mistake.

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