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Originally Posted by ScotchOnDaRocks
Low hands in Archie are overrated,
I read your Archie articles in 2+2 magazine, they were instructive and I (more or less) learned this lesson. I feel confident I would've folded this meh hand if it was raised preflop-drawing to a bad 7 with little chance to scoop, yuk! Only reason I brought this up was because I couldn't recall if B-1 had raised, uncharacteristic of him to limp anything playable in position 5-handed.
So I agree with the above 2 posts that I blew this hand on the first draw. As played, would you pitch the 2 on the first draw to give yourself a chance to scoop with a straight and a low? I'm OOP which is a huge disadvantage but as played Button-1 looks like he has a low draw, and it will certainly beat mine if he gets there. In hindsight I think I should draw 1 here so I have a shot at a scoop, but at the time I thought my low was good since B-1 didn't raise (I would've simply folded if he had).
Here's the way the rest of the hand played out, no other interesting decisions:
After Hero pats the 2nd draw, it goes 2-1. B-2 probably has 3 to a straight or flush, B-1 has a low draw that I need to fade, he won't call down a worse low than what I have.
Hero bets, both call. Hero pats the 3rd draw, then magic happens and they both change up, it goes 3-3 and I know I'm getting half
They both call the river, B-1 ends up with trip aces for the other half.