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[QUOTE="starfall, post: 395939, member: 7551"]
I think I'd tend to only go for A4 if it was suited, and to possibly prefer some of the 23 hands, because A2 just needs to avoid aces or 2s with enough low cards, and A3 and 23 just just need one particular card...

With A4 you're needing both the 2 and the 3 to make the nut low, so it's got to be much harder to be confident on that side of your hand, so I'm figuring that needs to be pretty strong otherwise (e.g. A4KK or A4QJ, double-suited) to be worth playing, since you're looking to make the nut high hand and have a reasonable chance at winning the low, not the other way round.

The thing that I did find from the previous experimentation with PLO8 was that making a play with a 2nd best hand both ways is a great way to lose money. So far since reading your tips and the ones on the Play Winning Poker site that Steve Badger runs, I've started playing only strong hands to the flop, and then only playing after the flop when I've hit the flop very well... 
So far, the 'nuts-only' strategy is working out well, and while I've had loose aggressive players stealing pots post-flop frequently, the pay-off from those players when you do hit a hand more than makes up for it.
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