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Nice spot of Villain playing a 5 and nice response of setting your 5 up top and your 4 to the mid.
Streets 6 and 7 play themselves.

It was a risky play on 8th street to make 2 pair in the mid...

Yeah, A to the mid, the 5 is blocked, so put that in the mid. The highest 2 values left are 7 and 4, so bottom, and surely we leave the top open and clog up the mid with the 3.
Then on 6th, the K...

Both gutters are blocked, so ~47% equity to catch.

The problem with advising this hand is that Hero luck-boxed a flush on the bottom, which was unlikely*, so any advice is going to end up with a...

Yeah. Play on 6th is marginal, given the T is once blocked by Villain's set. My rule is to get a live kicker on the bottom pair as soon as possible.

I think the play on 7th is a facepalm. I'd...

Looks OK. Splitting the pair of 5's for a 3-flush is a bit risky, but not bad. The pair is about as likely to become 2-pair or better as the 3-flush is to complete to a flush. However, there are...

Looks good, b1oshock

I agree with your set. I think 6th and 7th streets were fine.

On 8th, things get tricky. I don't think it's best to make a 4-flush in the middle when you have a 3 flush on the bottom. This is a...

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I'd have played the 7:s: on 7th street...

It's close. Playing the Q up top is aggressive, but you're likely to foul

In the mid: 8 outs, 3 times on 10th is 58% to improve.
On the bottom: 8 outs, 3 times on 10th is 58% to improve.

So...

You have 5 outs, with 8 cards to come from a deck of 42.

You only count a success if you draw at least 2 out of the 5 outs.

equity = 1 - <odds of drawing 0 outs> - <odds of drawing 1 out>
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KK4 w/ 5 outs on 5th street, HU, IP is 23.7% to improve to full house or quads and rarely fouls when it misses.

I think splitting the Kings was a massive mistake. KK4 on the bottom has great equity to get trips or better.

I wouldn't worry too terribly much about the other cards being blocked, I'd put the 8...

6 in the middle is a foul. It makes Aces up in the mid, with 4's up on the bottom.

EDIT: I think luke played it well.

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:ofcset::th::ofcset::6c::ofc9::6d::ofc11::9h::ofc12::js:
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5th -> With the A partially blocked, I'd leave...

Yeah... The general consensus seems to be that FL is worth ~12 points.

So 1 out to 12 points is worse than 4 outs to 12 points.

@Bben... the initial set is a close call.

As played, I only have minor tweaks.
On 6th, the 3 is still live, so I'd have played it in the mid.
On 7th, the 8 is blocked by the bottom hand, so it...

This bug has been squashed.

Thank you, dupeto, for bringing this to our attention.

We hope you get many more royal flushes.

Wow... 548 rounds in 1 sitting. Any comments you have would be...

It looks like that was in this series, round 508.

I'll make sure our programmer knows about this. It's clear that you should not have fouled in this hand.

Yep, this looks good to me. The only thing that made me think was the K up top, but Wazzup had already played a pair of K's on his bottom. So I definitely think it was better to put a dead K up top...

This from the Wazzup AI thread:


Here's what I'd have done:

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:ofcset::kd::ofc7::ac::ofc8::kc::ofc10::as::ofc11::3h:...

If you have 1-pair + kicker on the bottom, you should avoid placing a card that doesn't improve that hand unless you have to. Again, you want to maximize you chances to get a full house or quads.
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If you have trips on the bottom, you want to get a kicker there ASAP. As soon as you draw a fully-live card, place it with the trips. This maximizes the equity you get to draw to a full house.
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