well here is a hand i played on empire 25 table
I really like to play double pairs connectors, don't know if ther's a specific name to this hand.
feel free to comment my play here because I was very surprised to see the LP player calling my raise on the end.
Converter does not work properly unfortunatly.

***** Hand History for Game 1645931033 *****
$25 PL Omaha Hi - Friday, February 25, 12:54:55 EDT 2005


Table Table 34503 (Real Money)
Seat 4 is the button
Total number of players : 10
Seat 1: MagicAbeIII ( $37.25 )
Seat 2: Letherion ( $140.5 )
Seat 3: mrc547 ( $71.65 )
Seat 4: turbospede ( $25.4 )
Seat 5: stump100 ( $43.4 )
Seat 7: Voimanappi ( $73.07 )
Seat 10: Chriscount ( $4.75 )
Seat 9: benovitch ( $87.2 )
Seat 6: xCatex ( $0 )
Seat 8: dss401 ( $30.8 )
stump100 posts small blind [$0.25].
Voimanappi posts big blind [$0.5].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to benovitch
dss401 folds.
benovitch calls [$0.5].
Chriscount folds.
Letherion calls [$0.5].
mrc547 calls [$0.5].
turbospede calls [$0.5].
stump100 calls [$0.25].
Voimanappi checks.
** Dealing Flop **
stump100 bets [$2].
Voimanappi folds.
benovitch calls [$2].
Letherion folds.
mrc547 calls [$2].
turbospede folds.
** Dealing Turn **
stump100 bets [$8.55].
benovitch calls [$8.55].
mrc547 calls [$8.55].
** Dealing River **
stump100 is all-In.
benovitch raises [$64.7].
mrc547 is all-In.
benovitch shows [ 4d, 4c, 3c, 3s ] a full house, Fours full of twos.
mrc547 doesn't show [ As, Kc, 2h, 9s ] a full house, Twos full of nines.
stump100 doesn't show [ Ad, 5s, 9c, 3d ] a straight, ace to five.
benovitch wins $4.1 from side pot #2 with a full house, Fours full of twos.
benovitch wins $56.5 from side pot #1 with a full house, Fours full of twos.
benovitch wins $128.7 from the main pot with a full house, Fo
urs full of twos.

I don't think this hand is playable because you need a very specific flop for it to be good. I've learned that you lose a lot with low sets. Your hand only makes one nut straight, 2 low sets and 1 low flush. All those hands can get you in trouble so I would fold this hand in pretty much any situation.

As for your hand, you got pretty much as good of a flop as you can for this hand and you are only losing to 55, 99 and 22 so your aren't in bad shape. For every pot like this you win, you will lose a few others to higher boats or straights, imo.

there were an old 2+2 thread about connected double pairs that was quite interesting, but i'm not able to find it...
briefly it said that any connected double pairs were pretty good holding mainly because of the blocking effect you have on str8

I agree mine is very low and maybe shouldn't be played, but for 50 cents it's an easy folding hand if flop doesn't hit no ?

2dimes on the flop, I'm an underdog but not that much
http://twodimes.net/h/?z=793118
pokenum -o 4d 4c 3c 3s - as kc 2h 9s - ad 5s 9c 3d -- 2d 4s 5d
Omaha Hi: 666 enumerated boards containing 4s 5d 2d
cards win %win lose %lose tie %tie EV
3s 4c 3c 4d 194 29.13 377 56.61 95 14.26 0.362
As 9s Kc 2h 25 3.75 621 93.24 20 3.00 0.052
5s 9c Ad 3d 334 50.15 219 32.88 113 16.97 0.586

on the turn, no way to lose
http://twodimes.net/h/?z=793119
pokenum -o 4d 4c 3c 3s - as kc 2h 9s - ad 5s 9c 3d -- 2d 4s 5d 2s
Omaha Hi: 36 enumerated boards containing 4s 2s 5d 2d
cards win %win lose %lose tie %tie EV
3s 4c 3c 4d 35 97.22 1 2.78 0 0.00 0.972
As 9s Kc 2h 1 2.78 35 97.22 0 0.00 0.028
5s 9c Ad 3d 0 0.00 36 100.00 0 0.00 0.000

You certainly don't lose much by folding it. I play middle double touching pairs even if someone has raised (something lik TT99) and I usually raise double pairs in the broadway cards (KKQQ etc). 4433 is a bit weedy though, low sets can be a nightmare to play. 4433 is maybe very marginally playable in good position but in all honesty it should really be folded early on. You got very lucky here, even when you hit a great flop and a nice turn you can't be sure you're winning, but in the end you won a very tasty pot!

Monk
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its not when you miss that i'm worried about, its when you hit a low set or the 2nd nut or 3rd nut straight that will cost you money. There are very few boards that I would feel comfortable playing that hand against.

"A picture speaks more than a thousand words."
I call this one "Nailing the flop", or "Hoping for a reraise"

I know now that I should have gotten myself all in here, but I was just learning back then.