It's hard to follow the hand history, IMO.

He's defending his play to the hilt, and it's based on his population reads for his game... so I'm ignorant to counter that, and I wont.

It can be profitable against the right villain, or population of villains, but it's probably not profitable in 2NL online.


Live play vs. online play has so many differences that you really can't treat the bottom stakes in both as apples to apples.
The population tendencies are vastly different. A) people are sitting on probably over $100 real world dollars of their own money, B) the pace of the game is glacial, and C) you can see everyone's face and body language all the time.

There is just so much more time and info to work with in live games, and it's far more likely that villains will be afraid of losing their stack to a bad play than they would be if they had $2 at risk.