Lately I've been coming to grips with the idea of putting my opponents on hand ranges. Before I was just betting my hand, playing tight, and staying disciplined. This worked, and I'm well rolled for the next level, but I think if I'm going to move up I might have to start thinking about their hand at some point.

I have a certain few regs that I see a lot, and after several thousand hands against them I've basically got a starting hand chart for their play, but at micro-stakes I see a lot of people come and go, so I need to assume a hand range just based on their PT stats after a few hundred hands or less even.

The way I did it was to assume that there is a passive hand order, and an aggressive hand order. The passive hand list is basically the way pokerstove has it - big card combos, Ax, and pairs at the top, running right down to 32o at the bottom. The aggressive hand list is more along the lines of big card combos (QQ+, AK, KQ, AQ), then PPs, then things like suited aces, SCs, then gappers, Kxs, etc. So someone who's 17/15/6 (I.e TAgg, but for the sake of the example let's assume not positionally aware), I would assume - until they demonstrate otherwise - is raising with the bigger broadways, all PPs, and SCs. Someone who's 50/15/.5 (ie loose passive, and probably not positionally aware), whilst having the same PFR is probably raising nearly all the boardways, A7s+, and middle PP. I don't really need to worry about them making a 6 high straight too often.

It then occured to me that whilst this is fine for putting them on a hand when I cold call with my small pairs, or SCs, it might not be so useful for when they cold call me. I, for example, would never call a raise with KQo, but I'm happy to raise with it. I would never raise from MP with 34s, but I might well call UTG from MP with it. Whether this is correct play or not we can discuss another time, I'm just saying that people have a calling range, and a raising range, and I'm not sure how to deduce the second one.

How is this done? Is there a stat in PT (preferably one that can be displayed by PAHud) that tells me how often someone calls when faced with a 2bet? Or do you just sort of have to think "This guy is pretty passive, and very loose, he's calling me with broadways, PPs, and Ace rag"? How specific can you get? I mean do you have an equation in your head, like "Their cold calling range is generally around 1/3 of their VPiP"?

Am I nearly there, or way off?