I think the only set V has here is QQ. I think KK repops us preflop. Also, usually these villains have horrible sizing tells preflop with QQ type hands. They don't want to get "cracked" and so usually they raise a lot bigger with QQ and KK hands.

So my thinking is that V's range is weighted more towards AK than it is towards QQ/KK. There is no way V floats the flop bet with JJ so we can discount that. I also don't think V raises from UTG with KQ that just isn't typical in 1/2nl where players are horribly nitty with their opening raises especially from EP.

I think V has enough AK here for us to call and reevaluate river. I think I c/c most rivers as long as the betting is 1/2 pot or less.

Again, KQ is not in his range here and neither is JJ. I think KK and QQ bet WAY MORE preflop due to the typical "I hate getting my monster hands cracked" mentality that is prevalent in 1/2nl and I think KK 4-bets pre a significant percentage of the time. Thus, AK should be a significant weight of V's range here. Its the hand that V can raise "weak" preflop because villains don't consider it a real hand at this level and it can simultaneously call a semi-weak 3-bet preflop. Come flop, villain can easily overvalue AK with no regard to what the hell we could have and imo this will come out in the sizing on turn and river.

Obviously if he blasts river we can fold. If we bink an Ace I'd shove, if we bink a T then we are probably chopping, we can bet 1/2 pot or even just shove (I'm a fan of shoving the nuts on the river in spots like these 10% - 20% of the time).

As played, I'd blocking bet the turn, lead out $50 and we can always bet fold here if V jams us. I'd also plan on bet/folding river since players in spots like this just don't have it in them to turn AK into a bluff on a board like this.

Reason I don't like checking the turn is that there are a breed of players in 1/2nl that once you check, they think their TPTK is good and they actually will blast the pot like they have the nuts. So it makes it hard to judge whether they are betting so big because they are ahead of our AA or because they think their AK is the nuts because we checked. So they pick up a lot of fold equity against us if we check because now we start thinking that based on their sizing they are nutted when in reality they are just playing level 1 poker and are blasting the pot merely because they think they are ahead and aren't thinking about extracting value...