This is the most common example in Holdem (a straight with a draw to a flush). This is not all that important in Holdem. In split pot games, this is much more imporant and its where lots of your profit comes from.

For instance, say you are playing stud8 and on 5th street you have

23 5 6 A

and there is the villian with

XX K Q 9
Villian now has no chance to make a low hand, and you already have a low hand so you will at worst split the pot with the winning high hand. But you have a chance to make the winning high (with an inside straight draw). In this situation, you should jam the pot at every oportunity (bet on every street) and if you hit your straight you scoop a hugh pot. If you miss, you chop.


In Omaha you can usually tell because its all about making the nutz on the board, so its a common occurance where 2 people have the current nutz for high, but one of the two has so many redraws the better hands the s/he is the hugh favorite (and its typically correct to muck your made nut hand if you think that is the case).