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Message: [QUOTE="gustav197poker, post: 6133650, member: 393841"] In my experience at 2NL I have seen players who open with huge sizes. At first I did not understand it, but later I realized that they were regular players of those stakes and that they did it to exploit the opponents who always called preflop. Of course there are also beginner players who for them the size of the opening is irrelevant. But whether this villain belongs to the 2NL group of regulars or they are casual players, you have a chance to play for stacks preflop. Yes I know, that sounds pretty aggressive. But the villain is the one who invites us to action first. As played our 3-bet is a bit small because we have to compensate for the fact that we have no position. Your size could be applied some times being in BB, when we are HU. But mostly we are have to look for a polarizing size from the blinds. On the flop I advocate checking rather than a small bet. Obviously the standard line is to bet cbet on the flop, but there is so much money invested in the pot that it doesn't really change too much, considering that we are not too deep as V's effective stack now contains approximately 110 bb. By checking the flop we are also inducing an aggressive villain to bet on us, so if that happens we should play the stack since we are ahead of: AQs or QQ, while we are dead with: TT and JJ. (AA is highly unlikely, as a regular or occasional 2NL player should jam preflop). The turn is the most important point for me in this sequence. Your hand is blocking major bluffs like QKs and AKs who 3-bet preflop. So when V behaves passive in postflop I put everything back here, if not I played it on the previous street. The reason is that our V did not show much interest in the diamonds on the board, so we could represent a flush draw here. As we played the turn, our range looks weak. We really should show a little more action at some point in the hand. Let's remember the sequence: from preflop our 3-bet was smaller. We bet little on the flop and on the turn. Here OTR a villain will not be afraid that we have AA, because most likely we will never have it. But V won't be too happy to push with a marginal hand either, unless it's a marginal combination that has improved, like full house of nines. Really V range should now only have a lot of TX's and almost zero bluffs on this texture. Greetings. [/QUOTE]

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