The most important thing to keep in mind in split pot games is the big profit difference between winning half the pot and "scooping" it all. Beginners tend to think that winning two split pots is equal to winning one full pot. Not so at all from a profit point of view! Scooping the pot usually builds a healthy addition to your stack of chips. Getting half often puts you barely ahead of where you were before you started playing the hand. Winning Seven Card High Low players often have to settle for half, occasionally lose both high and low, but ALWAYS play only hands that have a good chance of winning it all. They never play for one side only unless they have an unbeatable one way hand or have a probable "escape" on seventh street. The second most important thing to do in Seven Hi/Lo is to get out EARLY when it looks like you don't have the best probable scoop hand! As soon as hands that start out with good possibilities for both high and low, turn into probable losers for either end, they should be folded unless they are almost certain winners for half of the pot. This also applies to strong high hands that are not an almost certain high end winner, that will probably have to split with a low.

Definitions

HIGH CARDS - 9 up to A .
LOW CARDS - A up to 8. (Ace can be played as the lowest denomination or the highest).
SPLIT PAIR - Starting hand with one of your pair cards down and the other up.
CONCEALED PAIR - Starting hand with both of your pair cards in the hole and your side card kicker up.
WHEEL - (5 4 3 2 A). Can be played as the lowest possible hand, a straight for high or both.
DOOR CARD - The exposed upcard of a starting hand.
DEAD CARDS - Cards that have been revealed and no longer in the deck.
SCOOP - Win both high and low ends of the pot or win it all with a high hand when there is no low.
FAST PLAY - Bet, raise and re-raise to get as many other players out as possible.
SLOW PLAY - Just check or call along to keep other players in the game and increase the pot odds.
CHECK-FOLD - Check when you can and fold if you are bet into. Gladly accept all free cards offered.
Playable Starting Hands:
TRIPS - (QQQ). Fast play face cards. Just call with Aces and all others until fifth street, then play fast.
3 LOW to a STRAIGHT FLUSH - (7d 5d 3d), see below
3 LOW to a STRAIGHT - ( 6h 4s 2c), see below
3 LOW to a FLUSH - (3c 6c 8c). With these three similar hands, check-fold on the next card if you don't improve your straight or flush and are facing two or more better low hand draws.
3 LOW with an ACE - (8 4 A). Check-fold on the next card if you don't pair the ace and are facing two or more better low draws.
LOW PAIR with an ACE - (66 A)Check-fold on the next card if you don't get trips or pair the ace and are facing two or more better low draws.
HIGH PAIR/Aces and Faces. (AA KK QQ JJ). Play these fast, split or concealed, if they are not overcarded on the board. Continue fast until threatened by another high hand and don't have a good shot at low or a no-low scoop. Try to drive the weak low hands and high draw hands out.
NINES and TENS with an ACE - (99 A) (1010 A). Check-fold if you don't get trips or aces-over on the next card.