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♠️ NL10 Spot: AJo on BB vs BTN 2.2bb + SB Call 🧠

BTN opens 2.2bb, SB cold-calls, you wake up with AJo in the BB. Multiway, out of position, rake-heavy — this is a classic NL10 decision point. Here’s a clean plan you can copy, tweak, and print.

🎯 Preflop Plan

• Default: Squeeze to 11–13bb. You pick up dead money, isolate the late open, and punish SB’s capped/call-heavy range. AJo has great blockers and plays better HU than 3-way.
• Flat (mix, low freq) only if SB is a whale you want to keep in and BTN overfolds postflop. Expect tougher postflop nodes OOP multiway.
• Fold if BTN is a nit and SB is a sticky reg (bad reverse-implied odds, little fold equity).

🧱 Flop Playbook (after your squeeze)

• Dry A-high (A72r, A83r): Range c-bet small (25–33%) vs one caller. With AJo, print two streets vs worse Ax and pocket pairs; slow on scary rivers.
• K-high/paired low (K52r, 772r): Small c-bet at some freq; check more multiway. Call vs raises is tight — you’re often up vs sticky pairs/slowplayed sets.
• J-high (J72r): Value protect small vs one caller; multiway prefer check. Deny equity to QT/T9/overcards but don’t bloat into two players.
• Draw-heavy (QJTr, T9xr two-tone): Check high freq. Without backdoors/strong draws, continue only vs small bets. Overfold to big aggression multiway.

🧪 Turn/River Heuristics

• Good barrels: Q/T on K-high boards (adds gutters), backdoor-flush turns you picked up BDFD on. Size up to 50–66% when you improve equity.
• Value lines: A-high dry → two small/medium streets vs worse Ax/PP. River often check unless you improved or villain overcalls.
• Bluff-catching: Call smaller sizes when you block value (A♦J♣ on busted hearts) and don’t block bluffs. Fold to big polar bets multiway.

🧭 If You Flatted Preflop (3-way)

• Check range almost always. Let BTN c-bet into two; call modest sizes on A-high/J-high dry. Over-realize vs SB fish; under-bluff vs two players.
• Don’t lead thin on bricks; take delayed value on safe turns/rivers. Three streets with one pair is rare multiway.

🛑 Common NL10 Leaks

• Auto-flatting AJo OOP multiway instead of squeezing the dead money.
• Over-c-betting wet boards after the squeeze gets called in two spots.
• Barreling turns that help villain ranges (Q/T on QJT) without equity.
• Trying for three streets vs population that under-folds second pair.

📌 Example Lines

• Squeeze to 12bb; BTN calls, SB folds. Flop A72r: bet 1/3; Turn 8 → bet 1/2; River 2 → check/call small or thin bet if worse Ax is sticky.
• Squeeze; BTN calls. Flop QJTss: check; vs 1/3 call; bad turns (K, 9, spade) → fold more; bricks → evaluate, often check/fold.
• Flat preflop; 3-way. Flop J72r: check; vs small c-bet call; Turn low brick → check; vs second barrel call some; River → value only if checked to.

Your turn: build your line and run it at the micros.

Play NL2–NL10

💬 What’s your preflop mix and postflop plan on AJo here? Drop your line — then hit the tables 👇

[Clifford Roadman]

If SB is a superfish I flat sometimes. AJo vs two calling stations prints on Axx boards

[Virat]

Don’t forget people never fold KQ/KJ/QJ on NL10

[ahmed_katar]

Squeeze all day 

[Owen]

2 hours ago, ahmed_katar said:

Squeeze all day 

Samee

[Alex]

💯

[SKY]

I squeeze this almost always at NL10

[Bastian]

. Flatting just feels like lighting money on fire unless SB is a mega fish

[Forfun]

Agree on the squeeze

[Rahul]

34 minutes ago, Forfun said:

Agree on the squeeze

same but I go a bit bigger like 13bb

[RtpBr]

People call way too wide anyway

[0xRaj]

I used to flat here a lot and play fit or fold

[loveria]

57 minutes ago, 0xRaj said:

I used to flat here a lot and play fit or fold

Winrate went up after I stopped doing that

[King]

btn open and sb call is so much dead money

[G h o s t]

37 minutes ago, King said:

btn open and sb call is so much dead money

 AJo is perfect for squeezing

[Joe Boy]

Only time I flat is when sb is a total station and btn is passive postflop

[Lucky_Guy]

Just now, Joe Boy said:

Only time I flat is when sb is a total station and btn is passive postflop

😂

[Faraz]

I have been burned barreling too hard on wet boards though

[111]

49 minutes ago, Faraz said:

I have been burned barreling too hard on wet boards though

QJT is an auto check for me now.

[Tony]

Yeah, checking those boards saved me a lot

[Joe Boy]

46 minutes ago, Tony said:

Yeah, checking those boards saved me a lot

 People don’t fold pair

[Gulabali]

💯

[Thu Aung]

Multiway I check that almost always

[Bright13]

23 minutes ago, Thu Aung said:

Multiway I check that almost always

Someone always has something 🤣

[Rider]

Turn heuristics are spot on