[Goldmund]

Hehe...well we can call it a draw then and both retire from the battlefield without loss of face. I think the stop-and-go works best when you get to bet about 1/4 to 1/3 of your chips preflop. The all-in on the flop will then give your opponent 1.5 to 1 or 2 to 1 on a call. Stacks in given example, as you said, are just a tad too big. And technically we're not even talking about a stop-and-go in the OP's example since hero is calling preflop. Goldmund