Premature check-raise?

[Girchuck]

$2-$4 table, tight with a couple of LAGs
LAG in MP open-raises, everybody folds to me in BB
I call with A /images/graemlins/diamond.gif T /images/graemlins/spade.gif (is this strong enough to re-raise heads-up?)
The flop comes Q /images/graemlins/diamond.gif T /images/graemlins/club.gif 9 /images/graemlins/diamond.gif
I check, LAG bets, I raise, he calls.
The turn is T /images/graemlins/heart.gif (Q /images/graemlins/diamond.gif T /images/graemlins/club.gif 9 /images/graemlins/diamond.gif
)
I bet, he calls.
The river is a case T
I bet, he folds.
Surely in this hand, my check-raise cost me something as I caught my hand, but does the check-raise in this situation have any merit at all?

[LetsRock]

I would choose to limp with ATo, pretty much always.

I guess I'm not sure what you were doing with the c/r in the first place, unless you were just trying to steal the pot. You're not definately ahead here.

I would have bet out to test the waters and then maybe c/r the turn. "Uh-oh that 2nd 10 doesn't look good against my Q" type of action.

Unless you slow play the tens all the way to the river, and then c/r (assuming you keep getting bets), I don't think you lost any bets here. Too bad you didn't have more players for the quads though.