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So if it's not too much trouble, how would you play it against a TAG, LAG, tight passive and loose passive player?

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First, throw out all of those categories. They don't matter in TD except at the very extremes. The important questions about a TD player are all related to how he draws, not how he bets.

1. What sort of hands does your opponent draw to? On one extreme there are players who draw at nines and straights. On the other there are players who will never draw at anything but 7xx2.

2. What sort of hands will your opponent pat? "Quickpatters" tend to pat nines and even sometimes tens and jacks very early on in hands, hoping to pick up pots early. On the other extreme, there are players who will never pat anything worse than an 86. In the middle there are a lot of players who will pat a jack or better on the third round if given reason to believe their opponent is still drawing.

3. Will your opponent break a hand if you raise? In the hand in question this is a big deal, because if you raise the third round and he breaks a better nine, that one bet has made you 70% of the pot. On the other hand, if you raise and he breaks a worse nine or a T or J, you have a chance to be outdrawn while you could have locked up the whole pot with a call. You can see how this interacts with the first two questions.

4. What hands will your opponent bet on the river in this situation? Truthfully, very few players will bet a hand you beat here. But it's very important to know which ones will.