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Originally Posted by jjjou812
The problem with straights in big o or hi/lo is that there are three others also out there and a runner runner lo can take 1/2 the pot. Hi hand only has to fade clubs, board pairing or a low to potentially split the existing pot, assuming someone else has the same hand. Top and bottom pair is a redraw but not normally a winning one.
Well we're not often going to see the board pair since we have blockers.
Maybe I'm too entrenched in a LHE school of thought, but I'd like to charge max to backdoor lows even if we're likely going to just chop the high at best.
Though since it is big-o it's much more likely (than in lo8) for someone to have KJ23x or AA23x or even just KJ/AA and any two low cards.
I could be wrong in my thinking here, I wouldn't deny that I'm a novice at anything that's not LHE, but calling 3 cold on the flop seems wrong. I feel like the correct move is either 4-betting to charge draws or just folding because we're clearly playing for, at best, half the pot (if only one other person has KJ and all other high and bd-low draws miss). I feel like the AT blocker/redraw leans it more toward a 4-bet. Idk.