AK is strong but not stack-off strong on a dry, paired runout — we should slow down turn and treat it more like a bluff-catcher versus a shove.
C‑betting is good — we have clear value versus worse Kx and pocket pairs, and we hold a strong part of our range on a very dry texture. The medium sizing is slightly lower frequency than a small bet, but it’s still within reasonable strategy and just builds the pot faster with a big equity advantage.
Turn is where we really want to slow down — AK is strong but becomes more of a showdown/value‑protection hand that prefers checking rather than betting big. The paired middle card shifts a lot of nut mass (7x, full houses) toward BB’s flop‑calling range, so barreling large mainly isolates ourselves against trips and boats while folding out the hands we actually want to keep in.
Facing the check‑jam, our hand effectively turns into a bluff‑catcher versus a very polarized range, and the pot odds are actually quite good. With ~2.8:1 we need only about 26% equity — AK (top pair/top kicker on this texture) sits very near the top of our non‑7x holdings, so from a theoretical view we continue and allow villain to have some bluffs and overplayed worse Kx; exploitatively, if population massively under‑bluffs this exact line, folding becomes reasonable.