Re: Sklansky\'s 7 Groups of starting hands
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I guess what bothers me is some of the hands in Group 7, which should be only played from the button differ greatly. For instaneous the simulation showed that 33, 22, 75s, 64s, 43s and 98o should never be played, what is your take on those hands?
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It depends what kind of poker you are talking about.
Pretend you are at a full ring game of no limit poker and everyone is deep stacked. You are on the button, and get dealt any of those hands you listed. Everyone limps to you. If you fold, you are probably retarded.
From the button, in a no limit deep stacked game, when everyone limps to you, all hands have +EV if you are a skilled player. 33 and 22 are very powerful no limit hands in position against a pre flop raiser as well. To suggest otherwise because of a computer simulation of hand equity shows a fundamental misunderstanding of poker. Sure these hands arent super likely to win, but in position, when they do make big hands they can make very big profits, and if they dont make big hands, they lose very small pots.
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