8/b: (TT)Q - playable?

[Beavis68]

I used to play any pair because you will flop a a set 1 in every 8.5 times and I had good implied odds.

Then I remembered there is no flop.

[AKQJ10]

benwood,

You (and consensus) are correct. I went back and reviewed that item in Zee. As all of you have said, he points out that you generally prefer to play the best high hand heads-up against an obvious low, and that the more lows are in the pot the greater the chance one catches aces or better.

I suppose I'm lucky that, rather than dribbling away money on this leak, the rolled-up fives made my crash-and-burn so spectacular that I'm guaranteed to learn from it! [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]