Just wanted to add that it's true that, rationally, there should be practically nothing in their ranges that beats you. However, especially at 2nl, you will regularly find irrational people who find it clever to slow play a set or AK in this spot or are so passive that they will just min bet every street with their nutty hands, or those who play reverse poker and won't commit a significant portion of their stack until they are sure they have the best hand, or until the river when they're "safe from a flush or straight draw"... I've even come across some who just call or check otr with the nutsThen there is also those who make these absurd calls, like calling a PSB all in ott with a naked gutshot or whatever.
So you can't just assume the rationality of your opponents and you can take that into account when you do your ranging by assigning 1 or 2 combos of nutty hands to fishy villains even if they don't make any sense. Of course when you see someone do that kind of stuff, you should make a note.
I remember a thread on 2p2 where a live poker pro got into a hand with an old guy who limp/reraised preflop vs hero's KK. Hero just called and the flop came the likes of AK7tt. The old guy bet and Hero took a few seconds to think when the old guy showed him his aces and said "you better just fold" because he was afraid of a flush draw and preferred to just pick up the dead money in the pot.
The story is just to give you an idea of how people can be thinking backward about the game.
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