[steamboatin]

I am new to the game also but two pair isn't much of a high hand in this game and if you make the nut straight, it is almost a certainty that you only get half the pot because the lower straight cards make low hands.

Omaha/8 is a game where you play to the nuts. If you aren't drawing to the nuts, you are very likely to be drawing dead.

If your ace is suited with one of your hole cards, that makes it better. If your hand is rainbow then you are weak on both ends. The A2 is easily counterfitted and you are very weak for the high hand.

You basically have a weak draw to half the pot and that is not a very profitable posistion.