Hand 7, seems like QQ7 is the keep. The Q high bdfd has value multiway when we are discarding the Ad, and the additional equity from the PLO hand by keeping the 7 outweighs drawing 1 more card to trip Q's

Love this game. Cool video and really wish this was getting played more.

imo hand8 we should keep aa89. that way we get to keep bdfd and also make a straight for omaha portion of the hand when 6 or j come on the board. also i think our aa does not need that much improvement so we dont sacrifice that much. (i mean we dont really need aaa, 2p likely always nuts)

I agree with your general concept:

If we think/know we have the best 5card draw hand at the moment (which is 99% here), then we can give up some equity on the 5card draw part and draw less cards then ideal (normally with AA we prefer to draw 3>2>1).

You are right that we can make a straight for the omaha if we keep AA89, and the turn is a 6 or J. But basically we have the same number of outs to make the straight by discarding the 8 and with AA9xx we have 2x as many draw to make AA96 or AA9J to make a straight on the T87 board!

Without the bd fd i would say keeping the 8 is a very big mistake. Even with the bd fd mathematically it's still better to draw to AA9! Because if we draw to AA98 we will make less 2 pairs, because one 8 is dead. The only reason why it can have some merit is deception

When somebody draws 2 pair they usually have 1pair+ and something. Such as QQJ, AA9, KKJ here, etc.
But if somebody draws 1 they/we can have some other type of hand, that we try to overrepresent/get FE later: such as KQJ8dddd, TJQKrb, etc.