[Tommy Angelo]

"I would like to hear how betting the flop makes things easier."

Here comes the flop. Not just this flop on this hand, but any flop in a three-handed single-raised pot. Nobody knows that anyone has anything. If I check and they bet, then I still don't know if they have anything, and they still don't know if I have anything. But if I bet, then they know I have something, and the information exchange begins now rather than later, and that is to the advantage of whichever of the three players is best at accumulating and processing and reacting to information, and that rates to be me.

Plus, they might fold.

Tommy