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If your opponents had half a brain this game would be impossible to do better than break even.

If you hand lacks any pair, pick the 2 highest ranked cards

while suitedness and connectedness adds value to a hand, it never adds more value than high card strength, there are no implied odds which only makes this statement more true.

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It's not quite that trivial; it's better to take the AK than the pair with a hand like:
A [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] K [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] 2 [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] 2 [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]