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Mack - Wait! I see it!

The following differences must represent the low draws.
437_____431_____394_____414_____382_____418_____40 2
_50______41______41______44______38______35______2 5

Thus the low draws must be as follows:
387_____390_____353_____370_____344_____383_____37 7
Total low draws from simulation data must be 2604.

69827 - 2604 = 67223.

Thus someone has a qualifying low in a seven handed game of stud-8 about 67% of the time.

As an aside, when you make a winning low hand in a seven handed stud-8 game, according to Mack’s simulation data, evidently you are quartered about 3.8% of the time. (Interesting. Getting quartered for low in stud-8 occurs much less often in stud-8 than in Omaha-8. In a loose seven handed game of Omaha-8, an A-2 nut low figures to be quartered 31% of the time and sixthed another 3% of the time).

Darned if I didn’t turn this into an Omaha-8 post.

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