[Phat Mack]

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Case I. There is no possibility of low so that if you make your draw, (i.e. if the board pairs) you will scoop and win $500 (You get your own white chip back and win the five blue chips).

Case II. Low is possible, so that if you make your draw, you will probably have to split the pot with low. If so, you will win $200. (You get three chips (half) back from the six chip pot – make them your own white chip and two blue chips).

Winning half such a pot twice nets you $400. Winning all such a pot once nets you $500.

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The bolded statement is where you go astray with your logic, because you are comparing apples to oranges. If you look at a situation where winning all of the pot once is correct, then to win half the pot twice means you are twice as likely to win some portion of the pot. Which means the guy scooping is twice as likely to LOSE a portion of the pot.


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The examples Buzz gives for scooping and splitting both have ten outs, therefore their winning frequency is identical, so I don't think he is comparing apples and oranges. For every pot the splitter drags, the scooper drags one. Yet the scooper nets $500 for a $100 investment, while the splitter nets $200 for the same buck.

I don't think Buzz is criticizing 2dimes or any other software, nor is he discounting the possibility of being quartered for high or low, nor is he implying there is anything magical about hi-lo games. He's merely suggesting that it is more than doubly better to scoop a pot than to split it.