I disagree with his assessment, and here's my presentation of why:
1. In Hold'em, you are drawing to a flush (draw) or two pair. You will need to hit two cards of an 11-card draw or two cards of a six card draw to continue in most places.
2. In Hold'em, if you hit your flush and later the board pairs - you have little need to worry about boats because most sets or two pairs would have folded already to the flush board.
3. In Hold'em, if you hit your two pair, and later the board straightens or flushes out - you have some concern about straights/flushes - but can sometimes continue if the pot size is large enough.
4. In Omaha Hi/Lo - you are drawing only to the flush. Two pair is often not enough to make the winning hand on the river. In order to draw to the flush, you will need to hit two cards of an 11-card draw.
5. In Omaha Hi/Lo - you are splitting the pot with others some of the time (with the low hand, if one hits).
6. In Omaha Hi/Lo - if the board pairs - you are in tough shape because a boat is a fair likelihood - especially when there are the requisite number of preflop players (6+).
The person who presented the argument to me didn't want to hear that he was in error - so I decided I would present the argument here and see what people thought. His argument, unmodified, was that he would only need 3 limpers preflop - which I've obviously modified...
/dStatistics: Posted by starstealer — Mon Feb 14, 2005 3:05 pm
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