Case of checking AK is good?

[bruce]

I'd raise virtually every time. You have the best hand, albeit the worst position. You'll flop something a large percentage of the time so you'll win a bigger pot in general. Just don't marry AKs.

At this stage you're not trying to steal the blinds, you're trying to win big pots and build big pots. Raising with a premium hand helps to accomplish this. Even if you don't flop anything, your preflop raise might be able to buy you
the pot if noone else flopped anything either.

Bruce