Noob Loop Question

Question

I come with a basic question but I can not solve, I think that will be easy for you. I would like, if I have 2 or more post on loop, show the entire loop. I tried the following:

<?php
$paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
$portfolio = new WP_Query(array('post_type' => 'project', 'posts_per_page' => 12, 'paged' => $paged));
$count = 0; ?>

<?php if ($portfolio < 2) : ?>

        [CONTENT LOOP]
    <?php if ($portfolio) :  while ($portfolio->have_posts()) : $portfolio->the_post();
        [/CONTENT LOOP]

        <?php endwhile; ?>
    <?php endif; ?>
<?php endif; ?>

However, that didnt work, the single post still appearing. Like I said, if i have one post in the loop, will show nothing of the loop. Sorry for the question, is that I'm not very familiar with wordpress yet. Thank you!