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The result is that
I am going to make a backdoor flush about 5% of the time here and win the entire pot, whereas you have 0% chance of ever winning the pot, only a 95% chance of splitting it.
http://twodimes.net/h/?z=1656022
pokenum -o qh jh ts 9s - qc js th 9d -- 9c 8s 7h
Omaha Hi: 820 enumerated boards containing 8s 9c 7h
cards win %win lose %lose tie %tie EV
Ts 9s Qh Jh 72
8.78 0 0.00 748 91.22 0.544
Js Qc 9d Th 0 0.00 72
8.78 748 91.22 0.456
There are many other situations where having suited cards are helpful but this was just one example.
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Just want to point out that your own example shows that it's more like 9% because you have 2 backdoor draws.