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Flopped Set vs. a Check-Raise -- What Do You Do Here?

DECISION POINT: In a cash game, a player sitting UTG+1 limps in and so does the next player over. Then two more middle position players and the hijack limp in as well. You are in the cutoff seat with and raise and it folds around to one of the middle position players who calls. Everyone else folds, so it's heads-up to the flop, which comes .

Your opponent checks and you bet, then the middle-position player raises. The action is on you...

What do you do here?

PRO ANSWER: In this hand we are heads-up to the flop in a raised pot and flop top set on a "monotone" board (i.