Card Player Magazine , available in print and online, covers poker strategy, poker news, online and casino poker, and poker legislation. Sign up today for a digital subscription to access more than 800 magazine issues and get 26 new issues per year! In Deuce to Seven Triple Draw Lowball (27TD), how we should best proceed against a pat hand is a function of the opponent we are up against and the action that has taken place. In some situations, we are almost certainly up against a real hand that is on average quite strong, whereas in others we are more frequently up against a collection of weak hands and snows.
In this article we’ll examine several different ways our opponent can arrive at his pat hand, and what needs to be considered when deciding whether to continue in the hand by calling and chasing, or possibly getting aggressive and making a move at the pot.
Villain Was Pat From The Start
When a solid player opens from early position and pats on the first draw, his range is mostly any eight or better low, in which case the median holding is an 8-6 made. He may also have some smooth nines such as 9-6-5-3-2, where patting is reasonable due to the underlying straight draw since there are fewer outs to make either a seven or an eight.
Hands he probably doesn’t have are convertible nines (e.g. 9-7-5-4-2) that want to break and draw at a premium hand, or the rough nines (e.g. 9-8-7-5-4) that are typically folded due to reverse implied odds with so many players left to act.
Overall, this is a strong pat range, and even if the pot was re-raised before the first draw, we generally require a one card draw to an 8-6 or better in order to continue on the turn. Even if we assume that our opponent has all of the smooth nines in his range, a draw to 2-3-7-8 is still going to be drawing dead around 45% of the time and has less than 15% equity.
However, when our opponent opens from the cut-off, button, […]
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