Struggling with AK in 3bet pots

[Hoopy]

H1 - Check back flop.

H2 - Consider shoving pre, c/f now.

[dahve3d]

H1 - Check back flop.

H2 - Consider shoving pre, c/f now.

I recognize now that these are the right plays, obviously these are spots I need to work on... I wasn't starting this thread so much just looking for answers (although of course they are helpful) as hoping to start some discussion of how we play in at least what looks to me like a perennially difficult scenario where we've built a large pot preflop and 2/3 of the time end up without a made hand on the flop and our opponent's range is mostly polarized to very strong hands (overpairs) and hands just as weak as ours (whiffed overs). Maybe there's not as much that's interesting to talk about here as I thought there was, but the number of times I see hands like these posted all over the place makes me think I'm not the only one who has trouble with these spots and it might be worth some discussion.

[daven]

you don't have to cbet so big dude.

His range in Hand 1 is a whole lot of pairs and high cards and scs when he calls pre, not much of this is folding on the flop. You can c-bet, but smaller or not at all.

hand 2 you can fold to the 4b or shove it over. Calling is gross. As played you can donk $0.90 if you really feel the need to bet. check-fold is pretty much standard tho