Re: When are Flushes Profitable?
The way you are thinking about this is flawed. The fact that you have to play blinds at some point has absolutely no bearing at all on whether a given hand is profitable in a given situation.
In your flat 2-5 structure, hands that thrive on implied odds (suited connectors, small pocket pairs, and, to a lesser extent, suited aces) drop in value. Thus, big pairs and big cards are better, in comparison.
Your opponents will not catch onto this, so you should make sure to raise with your big cards and big pairs so they make even bigger mistakes when they play their drawing (or complete trash) hands.
Having said that, you can play a lot of hands for just the $2 bring-in, including all these drawing hands.
If you want specific information about which hands are profitable in which situations... perhaps you could set up some TTH simulations to give you an idea of exactly how much the hand values change in your structure.
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