I'm a little concerned that I'm misplaying AK in spots where I flop an ace or a king, so I wanted to hear what other's standard lines were in these spots. Obviously your line depends on a ton of factors, but to simplify I want to look at two breakdowns: Type of villian (22/18 TAG vs. 60/11 loose-passive) and Position (in position or out of position). For now assume that the board is pretty dry, with no obvious flush draws or anything like that, although if you have comments on how a flush draw changes your thinking I'd love to hear em. What is your standard line in the following situations?

1) In position against a TAG
Assume you raise from the cutoff with AK and a TAG calls out of the blinds. Flop comes A94 rainbow. TAG checks. Are you thinking 3 streets of value? Bet flop and check behind the turn for pot control, then value bet the river if checked to? Ever check flop for deception/to enduce a bluff? How do you tend to respond to a flop c/r?

2) In position against a loose-passive
Same spot, you raise AK, loose-passive fish calls from blinds. He checks the flop. Now are we thinking 3 streets of value since this guy never folds an ace?

3) Out of position against a TAG
You raise AK from UTG+1, TAG calls on the button, flop comes A94 rainbow. Are you generally betting this until he gives you a reason to stop? Do you ever bet the flop and c/r the turn? Or c/c flop to give him a chance to fire with air?

4) Out of position against a loose-passive
Same spot, same question... is the plan to basically just keep betting since this guy will call with tons of hands that you beat?

I understand that this is highly simplified, but I still would love to hear any general thoughts. I'm not up as much with AK as I believe I should be, so I wanted to start taking some steps to fix that. Thanks.

Your quesitons are really very gereral. I'll put in my 2 cents however...

1) Yes, I'm looking for 3-streets b/c I usually have a spewy image and there's no point in having said image if you're not going to jam with the nuts. Meh at setting the 'tarp' in a raised pot.

2) ZOMG yes plz. Pot, pot, shove.

3) My turn line depends on alot of things (villain's AF, table dynamics, my image, etc). Generally I'm playing for stacks on the turn at SSNL. Baluga comes into play here.

4) See 2