PokerVIP - AK, cbet or not to cbet?

This is a general question about cbetting AK, particularly OOP and complete air on the flop.

I get a lot of calls from regs and this is often small/mid pockets which, on many flop textures have a lot of outs to improve and are ahead anyway, plus I get floated a lot if the board is low/paired low, unsurprisingly. I just check/fold co-ordinated flops as a default play.
I'm thinking I should make it 5x OOP as a deterrent but it's un likely to work with any greater frequency than it does at these limits.

Any insight appreciated, I miss a lot lately and being stuck playing guessing games is annoying me now!

Seat 5 is the button
Total number of players : 6/6
Seat 5: Player5 ( $1.84 USD )
Seat 3: Player3 ( $2.05 USD )
Seat 2: Player2 ( $2 USD )
Seat 1: Player1 ( $2.36 USD )
Seat 4: Player4 ( $2 USD )
Seat 6: zimmerman60 ( $2.23 USD )
zimmerman60 posts small blind [$0.01 USD].
Player1 posts big blind [$0.02 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to zimmerman60 [ Kh Ac ]
Player3 folds
Player4 raises [$0.06 USD]
Player5 folds
zimmerman60 raises [$0.19 USD]
Player1 folds
Player4 calls [$0.14 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 3c, 5h, 8d ]
zimmerman60 checks
Player4 checks
** Dealing Turn ** [ 9s ]
zimmerman60 checks
Player4 bets [$0.40 USD]
zimmerman60 folds
Player4 does not show cards.
Player4 wins $0.80 USD

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It's ok, I got it myself. thanks.

@Pwll how did you solve this?

This was the first spot where I understood the power of the HUD. Fold to Cbet above 50% I Cbet. Do I face a passive player I double barrel -- this way you fold out something like 66 or 77. maybe even TT... and nearly all the floats. If he is still with me on the river I make a blocker bet and fold if i get raised. If I get raised in any spot i fold. You have nothing to fight for.
player marked as station or maniac:check / call on the turn, c/f on the river.

Of course there are some variations due to different board texture and i try to work some check/raises in as well, but over all this works quite well for me.

@FG_SpaceLord I found a basic video on it (link below) so I can work it a bit more from that.

https://www.pokervip.com/school/beginner/reasons-for-betting/how-to-play-ak

No HUD available on Party standard tables unfortunately.

Gl and thanks for the advice.

You just need to cbet, you are still ahead most of the time, a lot of players will float, especially on rubbish flops and fold to the turn bet so just barrell

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