Thread: A542ds hand OOP
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Old 12-07-2005, 04:30 AM
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Default Re: A542ds hand OOP

Well it isn't really double suited trash since you have a suited ace. But it is a hand that rates to make you play a drawing hand only out of position, which is its problem. As far as your equity on a drawing board goes, the 8 on the flop severely hurts your straight chances since a card that makes you can make someone else a better hand. Plus you need to discount your equity quite a bit by more players being in a pot, which makes your flush likely not good. A non-nut flush draw picked up on the turn is often much better.

There is also a critical factor in this type of hand even in position in an unraised pot. And that is that it contains only wheel cards. So unless a wheel is the best straight on a certain board, you will frequently make a second best straight, without the split possibility you would have in hi/lo. So with these type of hands you want a 6 or 7 in them so that someone else can make a second best straight.
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