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I check-raise this flop for sure. U dont want the guy in the middle in this pot, who cares if he is a fish, u got his fishy dead money when he cold called u pre-flop. Now get rid of him. This is a classic case where u might be ahead, or u might not, but u should raise anyways cause it is a disaster when u do have the best hand but u let the guy in the middle stay in to beat u when he would have folded. BTW, the fact that u have the straight draw IMO makes the raise even better because u still have a bunch of equity when the button has u beat. One more thing, if this game was full and we could greatly narrow down the solid players range, then your line has way more merit because u are so often behind. That is not the case here though.