At lower stakes it really comes down to whether the opponent is aggressive or passive.

Say you open AK in EP and get one caller. The flop comes A T 9 on a two-tone flop. You need to bet here obviously since there are a lot of drawing hands out there and the fact that you'll also pick up value from AQ and AJ. If dude happens to have AT/A9/TT/99 then you've just gotta roll with it because if he plays well then he should get a good portion of your stack since he will play his draws in a similar manner. So against aggressive players you'll usually lose some of your stack (and rightfully so). Against passive players, especially if you never see them being aggressive with draws, you doubt that they're going to raise the flop and lead the turn or something with AQ or AJ, so it's easy to get away from.

Also note that the frequency of AT/A9 have to do with how loose or tight the villain is.

Then again I could be wrong. I feel like such a donk when I talk about poker.