Quote Originally Posted by XxStacksxX
I understand what your saying about the 99-QQ being played differently if the villian had it. It's just at my stakes 2NL, I see that happen. I didn't quite factor in the difference for the difference between the 2NL and 100NL game. Thanks for clearing it up.
As long as you're not the one doing it, it's great!!

I wasn't very clear with my post earlier. On a small card flop when we hold something like 88 or 99 (say the flop is 3 4 6), the problem is that we don't beat many pairs and we're barely flipping (and may be behind) against hands like 56s. All pp's except 22, 55 and 77 are already way ahead, and those all have at least gut shot straight draws to help them.

We want to bet to protect our hand, but the situation is very different and much more grim than with, say, QQ. We can cbet half to 2/3's pot, and probably have to let it go to a rr or action on a later street.

Flipping that around, having a villain who bets like that would be very +++EV for us for nearly every holding in our range, here. The game is the same, it's the villains who are different. If your NL2 regs are betting like a house afire with medium pairs on all-low boards, then pwn them.