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A few general questions about NL2 A few general questions about NL2

09-29-2014 , 07:05 PM
Hello!

I'm playing poker for a while now, but have been donking around the stakes (cash and MTT) until now been playing everything from $0.02 Hyper SNGs to $215 MTTs and NL2 to NL100. MTTs I'm around $1,2k down (I was 50% staked there by a pal who won a few big MTTs, so actually I'm like 600$ down), while I'm only a few $ down in cashgames (I didn't play the "high" stakes often and was either very lucky there or maybe playing good some days, which balanced my losses).

I decided that i shouldn't overrate myself & startover from the bottom. I tried STTs ($1.50) for a few days but after like 30 of them I realized that it wasn't fun, so I decided to start playing NL2 with my $65 on my Stars Account. Furthermore I decided to don't make deposits anymore before the first of every month and then only to start a NL2 bankroll again in case I go broke (which I guess is not very probable, because I'm going to have at least 25 BI + Table BIs on my account) I play 12 Tables atm, for like 2-4hrs the days I play and have now won 15 stacks over 14k hands.

enough biography. Now to my questions:

- Do you ever bluff at NL2? I bluffed like 5 times and it went wrong everytime, even if I guessed villains range right, people are simply not willing to fold OPs or even second pairs sometimes, regardless of how scary the board is. My redline is a little under breakeven, which i explain with the fact that I dont bluff much.
- How do you handle like Mindonkbets and one call IP with two fishes in the hand on a K27 rainbow flop with QQ?
- Is it generally +EV to fold to a checkraise or even a raise almost 100% of the time with TPTK or something similar? I experienced, that most of the time you are against a set or twopair, while it's really difficult with the fishes, because sometimes they have like 0% equity left with 23o on 85A rainbow board, while sometimes they have 85 on the same board.

I feel like herocalls are my big weakness, and think without them I could be 30 stacks up (really!)

Thanks for reading, and I hope for some tips

here's my graph BTW:


the times in which my red line goes up are obv these days where my enemys have 100% f2CB when i have air )

Last edited by KaiPhone; 09-29-2014 at 07:10 PM.
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09-30-2014 , 02:39 AM
- Do you ever bluff at NL2?

Cbets and stabs when villain has a fold button and has shown no interest - sure. 3 street bluffs because villain should read the board texture to understand you have a monster, not so much.

- How do you handle like Mindonkbets and one call IP with two fishes in the hand on a K27 rainbow flop with QQ?

If you have a hand with SD value like this, call IMO. They might min donk 3 streets in which case they either have like K5o or are just clicking buttons with air, so seeing a cheap river is fine. The other fish might decide to raise, in which case usually fold. Or they might min donk 2 streets and pot the river, you can probably fold there too.

- Is it generally +EV to fold to a checkraise or even a raise almost 100% of the time with TPTK or something similar?

Usually, but someone told the fish it's good to raise draws, so if they show signs of postflop spew you should call because they will do things like jam over your cbet with a gutshot.
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