I think what it comes down to is just your overall results with QQ-AA. Last time I had an online db of a few hundred thousand hands I filtered it this way once and I was an overwhelming winner with them. I play live pretty much like I play online so I know im not going around making epic folds with these hands, so if I can run 300bb/100 with AA under any scenario I'm not really too concerned with plugging some leak where I could fold it 1/100 times.

You're making 3BB/hand with AA? That's nothing to brag about. AT least not in live poker. I dont know about online.

Either way, if you can increase the win rate with any hand by playing it better, why wouldnt you do that? To each his own I guess.

I agree win the war don't worry about winning each battle.
this is good when you are the open raiser.
op's post he 3-bet pre
I prefer leading out here against 2 v's
op just missed the signal that he was beat and got married to his over pair.
hero has $45 pre and bet $60 assuming stacks of $300 he has 1/3 committed
V raises feeling good hero will call.
this should have been a red flag, dry board 10-7-2 rainbow
would V do this with top pair (A-10) ? smells like a set to me

I'll tell you this much...if you've shown strength by raising or 3-betting preflop, bet the flop and get raised, or you get called, and then raised on the turn, the vast majority of the time your overpair is no good.

Obviously this is board and villain dependent. In your example the 10-7-2r board, I would have a hard time folding an overpair to a raise, but I might depending on who I'm against.

You have to be especially careful on boards with potential straights even heads-up. I lost two pots recently when my opponents called a decent sized bet on the flop with a gutshot and hit or they flopped a straight.

One issue with the TAG or conservative style that most people here play (myself included) is that many times the opponent knows where you are at, but you're flying blind. This means when the board comes raggedy or with straight potential you can be pushed around, but more often at these stakes they just have the hand.

Here's a recent example. I'd been card-dead and raised pre UTG with AA, I got one caller with about $180 in front of him at 1/2. The flop comes 8-6-5, I make a c-bet of about 2/3 of the pot, he calls. Should I bet again on the turn? I mean is he really calling that bet with an 8 here, or a gutshot?

I mean you can't always bet the flop, then check the turn when you're scared and give up, but I highly recommend you keep track of these situations, especially at 1/2 they simply aren't bluffing when they put their chips in.

Off topic but you have to mix in 87/76/65/54s into your range, show them down sometimes and appear unpredictable, even though you're mainly playing a very strong range. Also mix in gappers, throw in a specific suited gapper combo you'll play for just that 1 day, etc.

In my room, open raises of $15 will mostly get folded to, except for AA, KK, and maybe AK. The house takes $1 rake, and you get a profit of $3. If you want to risk $15 to win $3, or be in bad shape if called, I think that's a problem. Average open raise here is probably $6-$8, and will be called.

Absolutely, I even sometimes raise in early position with suited connectors and will open with scs or gappers in middle to late depending on image and table dynamics.

There are certain situations though that are pretty obvious on a probability basis that the solid or TAG player has a big pair or has big cards and missed.

For example if he 3! pre it's almost always a big pair, AK, AQ, how many TAGs 3! with hands like JTs, T9s, or 87s? Very rarely.

Also if I've observed a tight player who hasn't played a lot of hands raise I'll gladly take flops in position (especially if it seems like the pot will be heads up) and try to take away the pot with bluff raises when unfavorable flops come.

That's what makes answering this question so difficult because you can't simply toss the overpair when you get raised on the flop. Many times the players at these limits really do have it, but there are also players like me, who know that certain flops like say 4-5-7r or say J-8-4r will give the player overcards or A-high most of the time and can be taken away with a bluff raise. If your image is really good and you've been constantly been showing down winners your opponent will even say things like 'guess you hit your set' and throw away an overpair on the flop. Mostly though they will call the raise on the flop and fold to heavy turn action because they are good enough to know not to go broke with one pair.

Even if he suspects we're up to something many players will not be confident to take action like rebluffing the bluff raise, or continuing after heavy turn betting cause we've been solid ourselves and we probably do have him beat with a middling set or some type of two pair.

Like most situations in poker, it's very complex, especially when dealing with crafty players.

Open $15 3-4 times per orbit and see if that changes. I already know the answer.

You want to open 7.5x as your standard at 1-2nl? Or is this just with premium holdings? Does not sound ideal.

my min open at $1-2 is 5x and depending on stacks at the table goes as high as 12x as a standard open.
after a couple orbits most start opening at your set price to open.
$2-5 is between 5x and 8x

When I see someone who is standard opening to $12 or more at $2/$2, I immediately set my sights on them, because I know that anything over 5x is counter-productive, and they should be fresh meat. They rarely leave with money unless they are running like god.

Are you deviating your opening size for hand strength? I can't imagine you'd want your standard open to be $20 at 1-2 or $40 at 2-5 with hands like JTs or 66 or KQo.

I'm always hyper observant of any preflop bet sizing tells from my opponents. If I see anyone opening an X and Y size, you can be sure I'm going to exploit that.

I do not

I have stumbled on $1-2 games with 8-10k on the table
plays more like a $2-5 with 1k buy-in

assuming $300n buy-in at 1-2 with high hand bingo hunters wanting to see flops yes I open $10 which is common in a lot of games I sit in
players will make snide comments but after a couple orbits becomes accepted as standard.
also as I see a lot of short buy-in games chasing high hand bingo it really irks them and entertains me

I've literally never played a 1/2 game where the standard open for the table was less than 5x.