Re: Playing Ax suited for flush value ???
I believe in Sklansky's limit literature he recommends playing Axs when you expect the flop to be 5-handed or more, same as pocket pairs.
IMO, the way you ask the question is flawed. When you play 88 hoping for a set, saying you're playing for "set value" is slightly misleading because the hand still has some value when you don't hit a set... you don't play a hand for "set value" or "flush value", you play a hand because it has positive EV.
There are plenty of situations where it's positive EV to play Axs but not to play Axo, but usually in these situations the change in EV from being suited is pretty slight; Axo being slightly -EV while Axs is slightly +EV.
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