Stud Hi-Lo: How Many Dead Cards Do You Tolerate?
10-21-2014
, 05:25 PM
If there is a beginner stud hi-lo forum that I've not found, please move this there.
My basic question is how many dead cards turn a monster starting hand into an unplayable hand. For example, if you have 2
34 how many aces and 5s and s will you have to see before you don't even go to 4th street?
I'm coming from the stud high school of thought that dead cards can kill your prospects and you should only be playing when most of your cards are live (or you can steal the antes and bring in). However, I think my instincts for how live my stud hi-lo hands have to be is off and I'm either folding too tight or calling too loose. I can't even tell which it is.
My basic question is how many dead cards turn a monster starting hand into an unplayable hand. For example, if you have 2
34 how many aces and 5s and s will you have to see before you don't even go to 4th street?I'm coming from the stud high school of thought that dead cards can kill your prospects and you should only be playing when most of your cards are live (or you can steal the antes and bring in). However, I think my instincts for how live my stud hi-lo hands have to be is off and I'm either folding too tight or calling too loose. I can't even tell which it is.
10-22-2014
, 12:31 AM
53
and see two 4s, a 6, and an A out. If the goal is always to be playing for the whole pot, I don't like that hand, but I don't have a firm understanding of when a hand is not even worth peeling. I mean, I know to dump Q96, but it can't be the case that any three low cards are always playable (although people act as though this is the case).