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 Originally Posted by dsaxton
Lukie,
The fact that you will occasionally check the flop when you miss does not mean you'll get added action from middle pairs by checking, unless you frequently check and then just randomly start betting with A-Q on a later street, and your responds by making loose calls. And besides, do you always have a hand that beats 9-9 when you reraise preflop and then bet this flop? Assuming your opponent is aware of how you play (which your argument assumes) and is reacting by making loose calls against you (another assumption you're making), and assuming you are sometimes reraising preflop and betting this flop without a pair, then there is value in betting this flop, so betting would then have roughly the same reward as checking but without some of the risks.
I absolutely never said that there's no value in betting this flop. Even if betting is +EV (it most certainly is), that doesn't necessarily mean that it's a better better play then checking, as we will obviously still have good equity in this pot even when we check. As such, it's perfectly reasonable that betting could be +EV but not the best play. I don't think there is anything wrong with betting this flop, but checking back certainly has it's merits. I'm having a hard time addressing everything else above since I don't agree with some of it, some of it doesn't apply, some of it might be true but debatable, etc., so I'm not going to. 
And, I said that the flop usually misses his hand because it is completely uncoordinated with a K and two small cards. K, 4, 6 rainbow connects with fewer hands that raise and call a reraise preflop than 9, T, J of hearts.
I hate to be nit-picky, but your exact words were 'this flop almost always misses his hand', which I just don't agree with, because it implies that the other guy is just going to check/fold virtually every time. I would agree that there aren't a terrible amount of hands that hit this flop harder then KQ. by the way, most flops miss most hands, so there's no need to point that out.
Also, I wanted to address this...
Honestly, if you aren't willing to bet a K high flop with K-Q, why reraise with it before the flop?
first, I'm not overly thrilled with the 3-bet pre to be honest, but if we're going to do it, a big part of that reason is to take the pot down preflop. Nobody said that we shouldn't be willing to bet here, but that we should check here sometimes. It may get value out of worse hands, it might prevent us from getting stacked by better hands, it makes us tougher to play against (think metagame), along with other reasons.
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