You know what nofreecards0, despite you in the past, you wishing me to get cancer, which is still pathetic, I approve of the improvement in the way you have posted a hand without capital letters, swearing, abusing people, using the word retard, so, i will give you a fair assessment. Yes, this is somewhat of a cooler. You raise preflop with a decent hand, and get a lot of callers, with no 3bet, which often means that you are against other broadway hands, suited connectors or small/medium pocket pairs. Thus, if you flop and ace or queen, your normally going to be in good shape. You do this, flop your ace. You are ahead a lot of the time here of course. You bet out and pick up a caller, and at this point your surely thinking about what their range is. Their range is predominately made up of decent aces, as the preflop call, and the call on such a dry board, suggests as such. You are also sometimes against a set, hands like 99/TT/89s and occasionally air which plans to take it away from on later streets. The turn pairs the board, a card which improves few of his holdings, but on the whole, makes your hand stronger, two pair. I think this is a good card to check on for a bit of pot control, and also helps slow it down on the occasions he has hands like 22/89s/88. I think if you check the turn, you will often see him check back, but, with a decent ace, set, or fullhouse, it will often be the case he will just bet for value, thus rendering your check arguably redundant. On the river, its a sick spot, because when you are beat, which you must be considering you might be, you are going to struggle to check fold here, its almost impossible, if you check, and he has something that beats you, he will shove, and you call. So you might as well valuebet anyway to account for the times that you do have him beat when he shows up with hands like AJ or AT. Imo, this IS a cooler, you have to bet that flop and when he calls, you will struggle to lay down your hand on later streets as yo