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KQ looks a strong hand but it's not strong enough to do a 3bet as the hands we want to see are going to fold leaving us with only the better hands, then on the flop if he cbets at points like this a raise by KQ would see the hero jam most days.
KQ is a better hand than JT by far, arguing otherwise is just silly. It's also an amazing hand when you're coming across a lot of really weak players (like you will be) because they will raise, or raise/call or limp/call SO many hands that KQ crushes.
the time i'm refering to J10 being better than KQ relates mostly to the way gary is treating this villian.
he seems to be making out that after the player of the original hand is doing 3xBB because he is scared most flops, so we will be able to jam flops 9,10 and J high with KQ and he will be too scared to call.
the 3 other hands i posted related to what garys thinking is with KQ.
the hand where i shoved J10 gary is saying in an earlier post that KQ should 3bet preflop and the 3xBB that was made by the player UTG is more like a sign of worry than strength.
the 3rd KQ relates to gary when he is thinking even when a player has 3xBB preflop and spent 4BB with his cbet he will still insist on folding the hand, if this guy wants to jam the flop i can see him calling if i jammed rather than Ch/C.
the reason i said KQ is probably worst than J10 related to gary saying that he would jam KQ on any flop that isn't A high, that's where i feel J10 has more strength as jamming K or Q high and KQ is mostly splitting the pot or loosing the whole stack J10 can just make the easy fold, a jam on J and 10 high would see premium pair call most times so the KQ will need runner runner two pair where as J can hit most times OTT only JJ on 10 high or TPTK will allow KQ to hit OTT as for 9 high or smaller they about simular strength needing a flip.
gary's probably making things confusing.
In general KQ is CERTAINLY a hand i would have over J10.
Using that range it's impossible for him to flop a straight or two pairs. He will flop a made flush 4% of the time, a set 7% of the time. 15% of the time he will hold an overpair, 11% of the time he'll have a nut-flush draw. So 37% of the time he will have a relatively easy call.
63% of the time he's going to find himself facing a difficult decision for his tournament life, often holding ace-high, an open-ended straight draw or a gut-shot.
We need a fold <40% of the time for our flop shove to be profitable.
OK, my cards weren't suited, apart from that it was a very similar situation to that in the OP.
As you can see I practise what I preach; a 3-bet shove is preferable to either a pre-flop fold or a flat call.
Had I made my other suggested play, the "call pre/shove any flop" move I almost certainly would have got a fold on the flop. If called I would have won.
Footnote to the above;
I just won that tournament. I almost certainly wouldn't have had I not doubled with my KQ in that key final-table hand above. As I said earlier in this thread we should be playing to win in MTTs.
If your prefered style is to make nitty preflop folds to a single action with hands as strong as KQs you're in the wrong game, your mentality is probably better suited to DYMs.
https://www.skypoker.com/secure/poker/sky_lobby?action=go_tnmt_lobby&game_id=9055133&guid=4e5e7c2c-0665-4d68-943e-1c957ba57153
Poker would be boring game if it was solved and there was a perfect play for every situation.
Or 3 bet the button. Never really folding here IMO