[Carmine]

Sometimes I like to make a 2BB investment not just for this session but future ones. With position here you can often see the river for 2BB if you raise the flop, check turn and call river(assuming he is betting anything). This is not just because I want to see a showdown because this guy is tight and that Ace hurts. However as you said why not C/R the flop or the turn for villian. His play is suspicious(granted that could be the purpose of the play)but I don't know how much third level thinking youi will run into at 1/2 or maybe he is just such a straightforward player holding AK and says TPTK, I bet, mentalitiy.

Another thing to note here is the flush draw. If villian is planning on calling your flop lead with say KQ [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] he might just try a donk lead to see what happens and if raised it's not so bad for him with 9 outs and possibly BB padding the pot. Even If lose the hand at showdown I'm really able to get into this guys head and play so much better against him.