I've found that the 2NL are both easy and hard at the same time. The opponents aren't good, but that brings with it a lot of problems. A lot of the more nuanced and sophisticated advice that most people around here give is frequently useless on 2NL. People bluff constantly at 2NL, and raises that would usually mean something at higher limits means nothing at the lower ones. And there's all sorts of goofy raises going on, too. I constantly am seeing people go all-in pre-flop as the first person to act, betting 2 dollars to win 3 cents. What sense does that make? The only time I can really see this as being even remotely viable is if you're sure that your table is so loose you're going to get a call, and you have a hand like AA or something.

You also have to be careful of pre-flop re-raises because you can wind up pushing people all-in for basically no reason. Give you an example, I'll see a guy make a standard raise to like 7 cents, and I'll re-raise to 21 cents, and they'll then go all-in for 2 dollars. I just can't really imagine when this would be a smart move in a cash game. I called a guy once with a pair of jacks and the guy had something screwy like K4s or something. People really think their suited cards are gold.

For the most part people are really transparent though. The hardest thing about this limit though is trying to not give the players too much credit. It's really hard because they'll wind up calling large raises looking for a draw, so it'll make you think that they've got a set or a full house or something huge, when really all they've got is middle pair with an ace kicker, and they're just looking for another ace. So you wind up betting a lot less than you would if you knew they were looking for a draw, frequently pricing them in for a draw on the turn and sometimes even checking the river thinking they've got you beat. Then you kick yourself later when you realize they're an idiot. Though I did once score the nut flush on the turn to someone I thought had trip sevens, and he wound up showing me quads after I went all-in against him. Pretty sick.

Which reminds me, that's one thing I've noticed about 2NL is that it's IMPOSSIBLE to put people on monster hands like four of a kind, and frequently even a full house. So if you have a good hand and you're going up against one of those, you're pretty much destined to lose your stack.

As far as table selection goes, I don't even know what a table finder is. The only thing I really look for with table selection is that I'm in position of the players who have more money than the max buy-in. I also look to make sure that most of the players aren't short-stack douchebags. I hate those idiots. You can't play poker with them, all you can play is "I hope I hit that flop!" because if you don't, they're gonna go all-in and force you to fold.