[Harv72b]

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Preflop: Hero is Hero with 2[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], 2[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img].
<font color="#666666">1 fold</font>, UTG+1 calls, UTG+2 calls, MP1 calls, <font color="#666666">3 folds</font>, Button calls, Hero calls, BB checks.

Flop: (6 SB) 3[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], 2[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], K[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(6 players)</font>
Hero checks

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Remember what I said earlier about slowplaying too often? In a pot this size, with this many opponents, and with nobody showing aggression preflop, you need to lead out here 150% of the time. As in, even if you're just watching the table, you should be looking for a "bet" button. Incidentally, against a smaller field (say 1 limper + the BB), you should lead out on this flop if you're holding 55, too. But seriously, against a large field, it is never correct to slowplay anything less than flopped quads, and even then you should probably go ahead and bet it.

Bob T had a really, really good post in this thread a little while back, and made a couple of excellent book suggestions for the mental/discipline side of this game. His advice on varying your own playing style to counter that of your opponents is very solid, although this is not something you should be focusing on yet--so long as you're primarily grinding out bonus hands on 1/2 (and now, 2/4), work first &amp; foremost on the basics and on plugging your leaks like the one above, and then move on to more advanced matters like changing up your play.

There are two basic lines you can take on Hand 8, btw: either check through the turn and call a bet on the river, or play it exactly like you did. Unless your opponent is very aggressive/tricky (you'd want to check through the turn then) or a very passive calling station (bet/fold the turn then), neither line is really better IMO.