FTR, Please help me become a wining 2NL player

Originally Posted by unclesteve

disagree w/daddem's post aobut being a nit. imo if we're not playing hands, then we're not getting into interesting spots and we can't improve.

@OP, put villains on a range every single hand, and concentrate on valuebetting like there's no 2moro, you'll crush micro's in no time.

Defo disregaurd this. Beating 2nl isn't about getting into interesting spots. Playing tight ABC poker is the way to beat 2nl. Leave the interesting shit until later.

Originally Posted by supahaole

Defo disregaurd this. Beating 2nl isn't about getting into interesting spots. Playing tight ABC poker is the way to beat 2nl. Leave the interesting shit until later.

guess it's a philosophy thing.

Personally i prefer to play pretty loose, get into alot of interesting spots and force myself to analyse my game and villain's game, both in real time and during HH review afterward. This has always been my attitude, and even if it sometimes hurts my winrate in the shorterm, in the longterm it's defn +ev coz i'm getting better at poker.

I don't mean start playing 35/30, but start opening interesting hands, like 56s in LP, or call an utg open w/JTs, etc.

But yeah, if you just wanna beat the limit and not get better at poker, your way is better.

Its nothing to do with philosophy , its bad advice that you are giving. If you want to play loose and get into spots fine, go ahead . I'm laggy too , but this is a guy wanting to know how to beat 2nl. The easiest way is to tighten up your starting hands , play in position , set mine, fold to late street aggression and profit. He can start adding in more marginal hands once he has become profitable and starts to improve his post flop play.

Most of the 2nl spew is directly attributable to pre flop mistakes , so why advise him to make those preflop mistakes in the first place