[Clarkmeister]

"Maybe being able to cut ties with K-x or Q-x is not a "huge" advantage, but it is a decided one that better players have over their competition. "

I don't know, it comes up from time to time, but how often are good players really even in there with Kx and Qx. I think the advantage isn't being able to "lay down top pair", the advantage is "being able to read hands". I mucked a 9Td flush draw on a Jd5x2d flop the other day. I wouldn't call the ability to muck a flush draw on the flop an advantage, it was simply a byproduct of a read I made.

Maybe we are arguing semantics here. I just don't think that folding top pair is really a skill unto itself or something that should even be considered a desireable ability.