1:0 – “pat hands skew rough”

1:0 is the convention used to describe the situation where one person is drawing one card and the other is patting.  1:0 would be where the 1cd is OOP, 0:1 is where he’d be IP.  This is going to be a really common scenario and it’s important to think about the situation from both sides of the coin.  We’ll look at it from four angles – having the 1cd in position, having the 1cd OOP, being pat in position, and being pat OOP.

1cd in position:  Assuming our opponent is competent the range of hands he has patting OOP will be stronger than those he pats IP.  If this is a 1:0 spot where are opponent (who is likely somewhat bad) calls and pats OOP or limp/call pats the majority of his range is going to be marginal hands in the neighborhood of T9xxx.  If they check postdraw I’d be even more likely to give them things like rough Ts and occasionally Js.  The closer we are to the button the rougher their range is likely to be, and they are usually turning their hand into a bluff catcher.  You should probably avoid bluffing them at first, but go for thinnish value with things like T8s to see how they react to you betting.  In my experience players like this don’t like to fold.  When they pat then lead their range is a bit wider, but includes more strong hands.  Some people will be making defensive bets, some think because they were ahead predraw that they have to bet now even though it wouldn’t be for value with things like T9s, and some will show up with somewhat wtf hands like 97s or better that they decided not to 3bet pre.  Try to get a feel for what type of bad player you’re against.  Depending on how weak they seem to be patting and the types of hands they are leading vs. checking, we may come after this guy with postdraw bombs both for value and as bluffs.

1cd OOP:  This is going to be a somewhat frequent occurrence when defending from the blinds.  We draw 1 to our T 9 8 or 7 and the villain pats behind us.   Really pay attention to what types of hands your opponents are doing with this.  Many will tend to play their hand for hot/cold equity and turning things like jacks and tens into snap checkbacks postdraw, essentially just hoping you didn’t outdraw them.  Against these opponents are going to want to be leading a pretty wide range of value hands and bluffs.  Test them out, see how they are responding to your leads.  If you are getting too many folds, expand your bluffing range.  If they are making suspicious calls, see what happens when you overbet, but in general look to go for lots of thin value with rough tens and smooth jacks and tend to avoid bluffing.  Against more aggressive opponents who will bet thinly for value and occasionally snow we should probably check a larger portion of our range so we can c/r for value and as bluffs more credibly.

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2nd tdl session of the day went pretty well.  19.5BB more at 1/2 in 119 hands.  I'm still leaking a few BB here and there, no real interesting spots though in this session.

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3rd tdl session started out pretty poorly.  Got stuck 25BB pretty quickly losing a #2 vs #1 and losing a 16BB pot against a rivered wheel with a #6 (though I lose 0 bets on the river somehow).  Ended up getting unstuck and +6BB.  Was 3tabling 1/2 and 0.5/1, 396 hands.