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[QUOTE="fundiver199, post: 5961555, member: 397965"]
Preflop
ATo UTG should certainly be the bottom of your opening range, and some would argue for a fold.

Flop
If you are looking to play a more GTO style of poker, then this hand is actually a check on the flop, because you need to have some hands, that can check-call. Its not strong enough to get 3 streets of value, and it does not need a lot of protection either, since the board is so dry. Betting here is an exploitative line, which is only good, if the opponents are going to call way to much both preflop and postflop. Hands like A4, J9, T8. Any pair or gutshot draw. That might be the case at 2NL, but I just want to open your mind to the idea, how a hand like this is actually supposed to be played against decent opponents.

When there is a raise and a cold call behind you, I think, you have a very clear fold. Even the raise is very concerning, because on this dry board what is he raising with as a bluff? Maybe 87 but thats just about it. This looks very value heavy, and you even lose to an overplayed top pair, which is certainly also possible.

When SB cold call the raise, alarm bells need to be really going off, because what kind of hand does he have? If he is a crazy fish, maybe he does have A8 or A4, but if he is any sort of competent, he has you beat for sure. So I actually think, AT is a fairly easy laydown here. Its a much tougher spot, if we have AK, because then we need to at least consider the possibility, we might be against 87 and AQ or something of that nature.
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