miffed, you mention bluffs. What hands in villains range, or badgers range is going to be a bluff? And bluffing here in either spot seems bad.

And I understand the "betting here is a must to set up the hand on future streets" argument. But, iunno. as badgers against this villain (and even against most FR tags here), I don't see value in betting AK, KK on this flop. And I don't really want to bet the flop which will unbalance my range towards QQ,AA, as that also seems bad.

Given the number of combos in our range (24 combos [QQ+, AK]) it seems betting our range here when checked to on the flop is bad, as we would likely have to fold AK, KK to a c/r (and also not getting much value), and if we did that then we are bet/folding 18 combos or 75% of our range. And if we do put more money in our range is really geared towards QQ, AA still.