At live $1/$2, the single most useful fact about your table is that it calls too much and bluffs too little. RangeIQ models this pool as the widest-calling and least-bluffing of the four stakes it covers, and almost every profitable adjustment at this level follows from those two facts alone.
How the $1/$2 pool plays
RangeIQ treats $1/$2 as a low-stakes pool: players enter too many pots, call down wider than their hands justify, and rarely turn a made hand into a bluff. Aggression is the lowest of any stake in the engine, and folding to a continuation bet is the least common response.
The practical consequence is that a bet at $1/$2 usually means what it looks like it means. When someone leads into you on the river, the population reason to distrust that bet — that they might be running a bluff — is weaker here than anywhere else you will play.
What that changes in practice
Value bet relentlessly, and size up. Against a pool that calls too wide, the mistake is not betting too big; it is betting too small and charging nothing for hands that were always going to call. A player who calls any pair calls a larger bet just as fast.
Stop bluff-catching light. A bluff-catcher is only worth its price if the opponent bluffs. Against the least-bluffing pool in the game, marginal calls stop being close and start being losing. Folding top pair to a river shove is a discipline, not a leak.
Attack the turn. RangeIQ models $1/$2 as the stake with the most turn over-folding: a pool that calls flops widely does not continue with the same width on the turn. That gap is where the money is, and it is invisible if you only think about the flop.
The most common leak at this level
The leak that costs $1/$2 players most is importing a balanced strategy from study material built for tougher games. Balance protects you from opponents who are looking for imbalance to punish. At $1/$2, almost nobody is looking, so every unit of protection is paid for out of value you never collected.
That is the specific case RangeIQ is built to study: pick the opponent type, set up the spot, and see the recommendation in dollars with the reasoning written out, so the adjustment is something you understand rather than something you memorised.
Related: the five player types you face every night, why sizing in dollars beats big blinds, and the glossary for the terms used here.