10/20 AQ

[BK_]

you are pretty screwed here. id fold the river given you got there as you did.

the decision to check the flop, call a turn bet, and value bet the river if he checks and fold if he bets is usually not a bad line with a top pair of aces, but i dont like it here. there arent too many hands you can value bet the river with if he checks, so there isnt much upside to the check/call/bet line. you chop vs the only hand you want to use this line against.

id rather forget about extracting the max vs a lower 1 pair and just try to take it down on the flop and move on.

pot the flop !