I was out of town for a while, so I just started collecting some data. Although the WSOP and the U.S. Open are underway, the question on everyone's lips seems to be, "When can we see some graphs?"
I took some middle-hand data from Mr. Smolen's book and Mr. Gritter's link. I then converted the hands to their rank among the 2,598,960 possible 5-card poker hands.
Soley as a matter of convention, I always took the worst case senario. If a flush was listed as J9 high, I used J9432. If a hand was listed as queens full, I used QQQ22.
Likewise, the best high hand, a Royal Flush, would be #4 as there are four of them, and for lowball calculations a 75432 bicycle would be #1020.
Bellow are two graphs of the same data.
Now the same data but graphed on a log index.
As I'd suspect, the 2-7 straightens out much more than the CP middle hand.