Re: Pure Theory Question
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Could the answer be q7o?
Newbie Reasoning: Q7o is the most marginal hand. If you held AA, it wouldn't be valuable to know what the opponent held. Congruently, if you held 27o it isn't valuable to know either.
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Just to correct a slight error in your newbie reasoning: there would be some small value to know what your opponent had if you had 72o. There are several hands which 72 is favored over, and even a handful it dominates.
Chances are that you've been told that 72o is the worst starting hand in hold 'em, but this is only true in a multiway pot. Heads up, 32o is significantly worse. Granted, this is only important theoretically, but since a lot of people seem to get it wrong, I like to point it out in all these threads. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]
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