KK on dry flop

[psuasskicker]

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Many people will smooth call those raises with QQ- because they "want to see if an ace or king flops so they can get out cheap." Is it optimal play? No, not usually, but it still happens.

Just because people don't repop PF with TT-QQ doesn't mean they're playing it exclusively for set value and certainly doesn't mean that they are all passive postflop on a dry board. They "don't want to build a big pot on a coinflip" or whatever.

Am I totally off base here? Let me know if I am.

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I don't think you're off-base that it happens but your why is way screwed up...

Basically OP has a bunch of people all calling him an idiot if he doesn't fold, call, or shove. After that, they're all calling each other idiots for advocating whichever of the two they're not advocating.

As such, I guess I'll be the first (?) to say "Who cares what you do, it's probably about as EV neutral as anything else you do, so flip a coin and pick one", and run for my flame retardant suit since I'm about to get it from all three...

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