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Originally Posted by NLOmahaHL
I find it ironic you guys are arguing over these two hands that are leaky af in a thread about O8 leaks.
(A2)89 is better than either (A2)99 or (A2)88, which is funny.
There are 2 reasons A289 is better than A299. First, the 8 gives you emergency low potential in case one of your other cards gets counterfeited. Second, again, you can make both the high
and the low with A289 and
the cards work together. You can make the high end of a straight and also the nut low. In fact the specific cards that give you the high end of a straight
automatically give you the low as well. You're not playing the 89 to hit a TJQ flop.
A288 is better than A299 not because it's better HU hot/cold or other unrealistic reasons. It's because of the hands
you're going to play out when
you actually hit something. Hitting a 8xx flop with A288 is better than hitting a 9xx flop with A299. You are already 33% of the way toward making your nut low on the 8xx flop. And you're probably not going to continue unless you have low potential. 8TJ is not a good flop for A288, so you're probably not going to continue usually. Likewise you're not going to continue with A299 on a 9TJ flop.
For example, which hand would you rather have, A288 on a 84x flop, or A299 on a 94x flop? That should make the situation more clear. You are about equally likely to have top set on either flop, but you obviously have much more equity with the first situation.
This is about making money on playable boards.