Sklansky hand groups v.s. half million party poker hands

[theRealMacoy]

Hello one and all,

I was just checking out the list of hands from highest to lowest by EV at Party Poker:

EV list here

It seems that the list actually dovetails fairly nicely for the first couple of Sklansky's groups. As one continues down the list the order on the EV list starts to diverge from Sklansky's hand groups. JTs for example appears much lower on the EV heirarchy list.

I realize that these stats essentially show an average party poker player (i.e., all players hands are combined); however they are generated from actual live games across many limits (thus playing them differently than "average" would affect their EV). Data of this sort was not previously available, even in the fairly recent past. In particular this strikes me as notable, due to the live-game source and reasonably large sample size.

I am certainly not saying this is the be all or end all of hand strength lists; however it makes me sit up and want to do some thinking.

Discussion anyone?

The Real Macoy

ps. I appologize if this has been previously debated.