i would just donk jam because lol bovada

Ok, I see you are saying what I thought you were saying and it makes sense. That said, I think that folding AQs in a game above 200 on an anonymous site 5 handed is too snug.

Yeah just ship it, zeebo theorem baby

Fair enough

its really hard to make backdoor flushes, i would still call it off, and when the club does hit , its actually a card that villain won't be apt to bet a ton of the time just because he knows that making backdoor flushes is hard and won't be given that much credit, basically its a spot he knows he will get looked up by trips more than usual. Its not a scare card imo.

fwiw , checking on the river is ok , some ppl lead here if opponent is playing like a nit b1*** and checking back tpwk type of stuff , depending on your read i would either check or lead here, if readless , go for the cr and hate your life when he checks back aces full of kings.

You're playing AQ, not your range. Consider what you'd do with your other hands and why, and that should give you a very solid answer.

You can even look at the hand from your opponent's perspective: how often should he bluff to correspond to value bets and/or attempts to push you off of Kx chops? How often will you have Ax relative to the other hands?

Not checking allows your opponent to bet with perfect information. Leading makes it extremely difficult for you to represent a bluff and probably shuts down most, if not all, of your opponent's bluff(raise)s on the river.

Easy check.

Edit: Regarding the case for doing anything else pre-flop, check out the math on the other options. They're all ridiculous compared to calling. 4-bet/calling might have marginally positive expected value; but, then you not only forego the EV of calling with such a strong hand, but also forfeit the ability to have any reasonably strong holdings on high card heavy board textures in re-raised pots out of position, which isn't going to end well. If you fold, then you're almost certainly either playing too tight pre-flop and/or being exploited by a pre-flop re-raise from any two cards.

I'd go $24 on the river.