2NL Just Handed me my Butt...

Creepy Jackalope

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I played a session of 2NL earlier today. I'm trying to build a roll from the micro's and I haven't played 2NL for some time.

I was completely taken off guard to be honest and got whooped. I was 2 tabling, 6 max. played about 90 mins. I've never seen so much straight forward ABC poker in my life. I'm going to have to make some adjustments.

I think I ran unlucky a bit too. Given the ABC nature of my opponents I should have been able to get more folds than I did, they just seemed to have a hand more often than what I think would have been standard.

Didn't seem like I was even catching anybody missing draws at the river or anything, if they were calling past the turn they had a decent hand. I caught on to that a little bit late. Probably started getting a little tilt happening too. Funny how so little money can get me so steamed lol.

Towards the end I was 3-betting stupid big and finally getting some folds. That seems to be what it takes at 2NL to get pocket 55's and rag Aces to lay down pre?

Any other advice for a return to the stakes?
 
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Id suggest l9oking in to set mining and plays suited connecters is basically all about show down strength once you hit the flop good and get 100+bb when they hit there top pair or two pair also try to get value out of them pf before the make hand with something like AA OR KK

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First of all are you sure that they were abc not calling stations, if you cant make them fold pre. bet bigger, dont stick with standard 3bb, take a note about the any ace guys and exploit them because they will play their ace no madder the kicker, so whenever you have two pair or higher value bet bit, also take a note about people who would put all their money on tptk and do the same when you are stronger, reduce your c-bet frequency a little, especially when you have an air, if you still want to c-bet do it like 75% or a pot size, it is a lot easier to those players to cal a half pot c-bet specially if the more players is involved in the pot, making bigger bets but less often will probably do better job with folding... dont worry about drawing hands, if you charge their draws properly they will lose money... It would be nice if you post some hands here so we can see what's happening
 
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Also, at 2nl, there's no shortage of players who limp then call a normal-sized raise with hands like small pairs, weak aces, suited connectors, etc. You want to identify the ones who have this leak and be aware that when you raise them, you're likely to get called. This is fine since they still have modest hands and you usually have position. You just have to be prepared to play post-flop vs those players. When you lose hands, they'll obviously cost more than if the opponents had folded. However, when you win, you'll win more too.
 
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not sure you want to be 3betting to get folds at 2nl, all about value betting and going to showdown.
 
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playing micros is easy
wait for big hands and then bet bet bet
don't chase draws - calculate the profitability of calling/raising/folding in terms of equity/odds/implied odds/reversed odds/outs/counterfeited outs
think about your opponents style/range and try to polarize their hand
play hands from middle-late position and play a TAG style, the micros is full of TAPS and LAPS, and while the ultimate cash game players are LAGS, playing TAG will crush 2nl.
lastly don't be afraid to bring it down to one table until your comfortable. It is hard to multitable without practice - EVEN if it is just 2 tables
 
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playing micros is easy
wait for big hands and then bet bet bet
don't chase draws - calculate the profitability of calling/raising/folding in terms of equity/odds/implied odds/reversed odds/outs/counterfeited outs
think about your opponents style/range and try to polarize their hand
play hands from middle-late position and play a TAG style, the micros is full of TAPS and LAPS, and while the ultimate cash game players are LAGS, playing TAG will crush 2nl.
lastly don't be afraid to bring it down to one table until your comfortable. It is hard to multitable without practice - EVEN if it is just 2 tables


solid post
you always get implied odds at the micros lol
 
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Don't even worry about disguising your hand and anything fancy. Three bet pre with KK get called and the flop comes K35? Bet BIG. If he called ya with A5 suited he ain't going anywhere.
 
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Thanks everybody for the input. I've played a couple of sessions since posting here and have had better success, and will continue to make adjustments.
 
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think about your opponents style/range and try to polarize their hand
I'm interested to know why you seem think this advice is widely applicable. How many players at 2nl actually play using polarized ranges? Against the rest, how is trying to polarize their ranges helpful when they don't do it themselves?
 
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lol i read hands at 5nl a fair amout of the time correctly its pretty obvious on what they have on how they play there hand
ex:
your in bb with KK
sb raise 3 bb and you raise 6 bb call

flop comes 10 j A rainbow he bets big chances are hes got two pair or straight or top pair with straight draw as you can see he played it straight forward and basically told you what his hand was but id worry very little about hand reading in 2nl and more at 10nl-25nl
 
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You mean you reraise TO 6 BB or reraise another 6 BB?

With premium hands you should be repopping to least 3x the villain's raise. I generally like to do it 3.5x. Chances are he will call ya with his AJ/KQish hands or small PP.

If you are on a bad run, you will lose them as they will amazingly run like gods, but hopefully in the long run you will have a profit by playing strong hands strongly.

lol i read hands at 5nl a fair amout of the time correctly its pretty obvious on what they have on how they play there hand
ex:
your in bb with KK
sb raise 3 bb and you raise 6 bb call

flop comes 10 j A rainbow he bets big chances are hes got two pair or straight or top pair with straight draw as you can see he played it straight forward and basically told you what his hand was but id worry very little about hand reading in 2nl and more at 10nl-25nl
 
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play one table and focus more, 2nl is easy

if you have trouble with this read forums and work on your logic likely you are playing poorly if you are losing for a reasonable sample
 
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L9ok on google books for free books and then download beating the micro stakes by idk lol but its a hard to miss

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