Balancing is over-rated at 10NL. If this is balancing then balancing = losing money.

I agree with you which is why I said betting will work out better most of the time.

I'm not sure how to say this without sounding rude. But checking is pure madness imo, we can still have a balanced checking/range without checking AKhh on this flop and there's still lots of combos that works much better as a check.

Try thinking of what we're trying to achieve when checking and about the concept of being balanced. If you want to check AK so badly on this flop (I wouldn't either way) , check with the king of spades instead because you can call down on more runouts (turn spade river spade, villain will have less combos of flushes if it runs spade turn and blank river) . Adding this hand to our checking range is just simply a waste of a very strong hand.

sweet16: Having read your post, I agree. Thanks for elaborating!

You're probably right. I'm always looking to improve in these spots. I'll have to do some database analysis to see if checking has any merit at all compared to betting.

Edit: Just did a quick look at my results. Not that it means anything because I might be making a lot of mistakes in other parts of the hand but when I have AK out of position on Ace high flop and cbet my winrate is 1013bb/100. In same spot when I check my winrate 1150bb/100. Like I said it doesn't mean much but at least for me personally checking has been doing ok.