My opinion has been that if you're not tight for cash you should be studying so much more than actually playing and not waste your time building a roll by grinding the stake below just deposit more and more up when you feel you're ready.
Trying to get people to fold is generally a pretty big mistake at 2nl when people aren't really thinking about your range but rather their hand except in fairly specific situations.
H1 when villain calls the flop with KQx rainbow and the turn is a complete dud I really don't think we pick up very much fold equity at all in this spot so I think we can give up and realise our equity, Ace is a pretty good card and a jack hits villains range hard enough that we get paid off a lot imo. When we pick up a reasonable amount of showdown value on the river and it's not a scary card for villain betting is wrong.
H2 Opening J9s in MP may be a mistake given the right table conditions. I think you can shove the flop as people who sit down short stacked at 2nl tend to be huge calling stations, hit any hand get the money in types. That being said the turn is horrible and a shove tends to be pretty strong. Villain will turn up with some AJ, KJ type hands so you'd have to check what he needs to be doing this with to make it a call and see if it's reasonable.
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