1/1 game 120 max buy in. Good game fairly loose. My image is ok, been caught on a couple bluffs but when big $$ has gone in I have showed winners. Down a buy in initially at the beginning of the game and now I have settled in.

Villain 1 is an older eastern european guy. He's been running hotter than hell and been really loose pre, but all the big pots hes played he has showed down big hands.
Villain 2 was not really involved in the hand much but is decent. Down a buy in after getting coolered.

1/1 9 handed:

BB V1 (550)
CO V2 (140)
BTN HERO (330)

Hero is dealt AK

Limps to V2 in the CO who opens for $5, hero 3 bets to $16, v1 calls $16 in the BB. Folds around to the C.O who folds.

Flop ($38) 25A
V1 checks, Hero checks

I felt like I could have continued here. I had been c betting a lot of flops and getting a lot of folds. I didn't think many hands would call so I decided to check and play it tricky.

Turn ($38) A

V1 checks, hero bets $17, V1 calls

At this point I feel my hand is too good to check and I go ahead and lead out for value. I think V1 has a big pair and doesn't believe I have an ace since I checked the flop

River ($72) 2

V1 checks, Hero?

Line check up to this point and whats the play on the river?

Bet the flop for fat value against AT - AQ and non believing 77 - JJ.

Bet the turn bigger. Sizing isnt really going to have much if an effect on his calling frequency here.

River, maybe $50 or so. Call any ship of course.

I like checking the flop with no draws and disguising our hand.
bet nearly pot on the turn, just enough to leave doubt in him that his Pocket Pair is better than your bluff.

as played, I think raising 40-50 for value on the turn is enough to get him to call, and obviously raise All In if he raises you.

results

River ($72)

Villain checks, Hero leads for $41

Villain snap calls and tables 55 for a smaller boat and hero scoops a $154 pot

I see so many posts where people end up being on the losing or negative end of a pot. So the outcome of this was good but did I play it badly?

Clearly it was a great run out for me, I sucked out pretty bad...
I was 100% positive that the only hands that would call a bet OTF with that board is JJ,QQ,KK and sets. I knew QQ and KK was very unlikely due to the action pre.

OTT when he calls I'm not happy about it, I am really sure he doesn't have a dominated Ax hand

OTR Did I lose value the way I played it and the hand in general? Had I not luckboxed the run out the way I played it would have lost me the minimum. I feel like villain calls because he knows I have an ace most of the time but he is getting 3:1, hand is too good to fold. If this is true how much more value can we get?

You described V1 as very loose pre. Yet you seem sure he won't call the flop or turn with any worse A. They must be in a very loose players range pre. And I don't think most players would fold AQ or AJ to a cbet on this flop. He's certainly not folding them to a turn bet as played.

Also, your thinking about your turn bet sounds flawed to me. You say when he called you weren't happy about it. The bet should have been for one of two reasons. 1. Get better hands to fold. This is deffinately not the case here. Or 2. Get worse hands to call. If you weren't going to be happy about a call (implying you believe he would mostly call with better) then you shouldn't have bet. Although I think it was a good bet and you should have been happy about the call and hoped to see a worse A or a bluff catching big pair.

I noted in the OP he wasn't showing down/playing big pots light but his pre range was wide. So when he calls with two aces out there I feel like there aren't many hands strong enough to call but that I still beat.

But I see what you are saying about the thought process. I should already have decided if I am betting for value or as a bluff. I felt like it was for value, but I still didn't think he had a dominated Ace.