Re: RESULTS
there is an argument for checking, but it's not so you can get all-in with 99-JJ. you're barely ahead of those hands, so they easily have the odds to call, so you don't want them in the pot. the hands you want to trap into betting are hands like KJ that have missed completely and would be drawing very thin against you. i think this is a viable play. villain should be opening a decent number of non-pair, non-ace hands, and i'd expect a continuation bet a lot of the time.
however, if it goes check-check, the hand becomes much more difficult to play well. the chance to fold out a hand like TT (or at least try....) is pretty valuable, so i like a bet.
playing this as a stop-n-go would not have occured to me. i like it for the most part, but i think pushing into a rainbow A-high flop is going to leave you drawing dead a large percentage of the time. i think calling pre-flop and pushing any non-A board (i would also check if i flopped a pair) is a better line.
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