Flop action.

[sweetjazz]

My generic line here is check/call. You really don't have outs to clean up unless a worse A or K has hit the flop and reverse dominated you; unfortunately, you often cannot get such a hand to fold regardless of how you play the hand.

However, this hand is unique in that the capper has very light capping standards. While I imagine he caps with a lot of PPs, Entity seems to be suggesting that the cap could be with AQ or even AJ/KQ (especially if suited). Given how harmless this flop looks, I think check/raising is best. We usually have decent equity when behind and we are often ahead.

If we had position, this would be an easy raise. Playing this pot OOP makes the check/raise line less desirable, but I think it is worth it in this particular situation.

(There is also a metagame benefit, in that we encourage the LAG player to give us lots of action when we have real hands. While he is going to give us some action no matter what, if he sees that we C/Red with A high on a flop, that might induce him to put in even more bets on future hands when we fastplay our top pair and better hands on the flop.)