Pot increases; each street is more expensive if we make a mistake. And with 72, mistakes come fast. Though flop is not the end of our troubles. In case we hit, we can easily be dominated by an opponent holding a better kicker or them having a better draw than we do. Those two pairs will not be top 2 pairs , do we want to make a call for our stack on the river holding bottom two pair against someone who was betting aggressively for three streets?
Now you know why it is a far better option to fold 72 every time. Up against 2 opponents, our equity preflop is only When we are up against 3 equity drops to measly If we decide to see the flop, the vast majority of the time, we now need to fold on flops as opponents will have us crushed. When we are talking about raw equity of going all-in preflop 72 is not the worst hand. It dominates all hands from 32o up until 62o.
That comes from having a higher kicker. But that scenario is unrealistic as we will never be against those hands when going all-in preflop. It is essential to know these are all of the hands we dominate. In casinos or even sometimes online you can find special promotions going on for playing During special promotions, poker rooms reward a player if he wins the hand with 72o. Such promotions are always a good thing. Not because it means now, you can play the worst hand in poker.
It is because we know that many people will now overplay 72o, and we can punish that. A round of betting also precedes the river card. There is then one more round of betting, and the best five-card hand wins. That hand may or may not contain the hole cards. Some starting two-card hands are more likely to work well with the other cards in the deck than others. Of all the possible starting hands you can be dealt in Texas Hold 'Em, the following five hands are the least welcome.
If you're dealt one of these hands, there are almost no circumstances in which you should play them. If you see these particular card combinations in your starting hand, your best option is to fold 'em. A offsuit hand is the worst hand to start with in Texas Hold 'Em poker because there are so few good options available to you: you have no straight draw, no flush draw, and even if you wind up with a pair of 7s or a pair of 2s, you're unlikely to have the best hand. Of course, you'll see some crazy flops every now and then, but just because you see a rare flop once in a blue moon doesn't make this a good hand to play.
Everything that can be said about the offsuit starting hand also applies to the offsuit hand. It is only slightly better than a offsuit because the 8 is better than the 7. For the same reasons, you have no good options going forward with this hand. It is best to drop out before the betting begins. The offsuit hand is another horrible starting hand for Texas Hold 'Em poker. Not much help can come from the flop or the turn here.
Best wait for a better hand than to stick with this highly unlikely winner. The offsuit hand is only slightly better than the other hands in the bottom five worst-hands list and even then it is because the 9 high a high card. Often players might imagine that 32o is considerably better than 72o due to the straight potential. But most forms of analysis suggest otherwise. When playing against one random hand, playability is not so crucial. By playability, we mean the possibility of making straights and flushes.
Many players might argue that this should be the most accurate version of the worst holdings list. Playability starts to become way more critical than high cards in determining equity.
Notice that none of the bottom 5 in this table have any sort of straight potential. At least 32o can sometimes make some type of nut straight and still be good vs a field of 9 other players. Top Menu. How to play. Download Now. Category Menu. Follow along as poker counts down the Top 7 Worst Starting Hands in poker. Find out which hands you should probably avoid playing at all costs!
But what about the worst starting hand? The Problem with Rankings Hands The problem with ranking hands is that there is no objective way to say which hand is better than another. It all depends on the system we use to measure. One method of ranking hands is to look at their equity vs a random holding. About the Author.
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