yes I did get answers and thank you all. A few people in the thread also pointed out mistakes based on how I played my hand. I guess people chasing down 8 lo's is not uncommon in the micro stud8 games.

Keep in mind that a .25/.5 limit game is going to be pretty similar in effective size to a NLHE game with, say, 5c/10c blinds or even lower, something like NL5-NL10. If you've played those levels, I'm sure you've seen a calling station or two.

Rusty/someone with a similar viewpoint,

why is open completing what is almost always a the strongest lo, with wheel potential?

not saying it's not, just curious as to the thinking behind it.

thanks.

The problem with open completing is that it gives information away about your hand (usually), and discourages people from calling or stealing with worse when they might have otherwise.

In holdem, would you want an option to raise from, say, the big blind, before anyone else acted? Or would you like to give EP players a chance to limp their trash, and/or give CO and BUT a chance to steal light when it folds them them?

The problem is not that you're completing, it's that you're completing from a position that often (but not always) gets to act last on 3rd st (if it limps around you will not have the ability to act)

Also, a keen issue in high-low games that does not occur so often in one-way games is that there are hands that play very well multiway, and with hands like these you would like to encourage multiway action. A 3-wheel hand with an A could go either way, because A-high is not without value for high and obviously drawing quite well for low, but you should definitely welcome mediocre high hands and weak low hands to come into the pot, not push them out.

No doubt Rusty, I'm realizing that now. Overall I guess I want them to play like that cause that's how sound players profit against loose players.
Sorry guys If made a big thing about a very standard stud hand , like I said i'm new to the game, didn't mean to act unprofessional.

It's no big deal. It just came off very much like a "look how bad they play. look how bad i run." post. People don't like bbv posts and that's how it came off. Obviously you know not to talk strat at table it's just not good for games. Come here and ask all the questions you like a lot of guys on here are almost too helpful I would guess they'll answer all the standard questions you can ask just don't frame them as bbv posts.