What are the top 10 starting hands in holdem?

[4W Cowboy]

Awesome graph...great illustration of hand rankings. Personnaly I still use Sklansky & Malmuth's Groups. Their top 10 hands are (in order) AA, KK, QQ, JJ, AKs, 10-10, AQs, AJs, KQs, AKos

[Nichlemn]

Would anyone seriously play KQs or AJs ahead of AKo in virtually any situation?

Equity against random hands is almost meaningless. The ability to select the hands one plays makes this so. AQs gains a lot equity from being a better hand to have than AKo against random unplayable hands like J5 and 84, as in that case they are functionally the same in having overcards but AQs has the suited advantage. Yet since hand selection is biased towards big cards, AKo is clearly better.

This is also why 88 and 99 aren't as great as their equity would suggest. 99 has 72% equity against random hands - but this occurs from 76% equity against all non-Broadway hands but 49% equity against Broadway hands.

[Draidin]

I would take AKo waaaay over AJs or AQs.
And actually I would take AKs over pocket deuces.
PokerStove shows AKs winning over deuces 50%-49% over 1.7 million hands.

[4W Cowboy]

I believe the reason they have AQs, AJs, and even KQs before AKos is because, yes you have the abilty to flop the top pairs and the nut straight with AKos, but over time you loose (when seen to the river) with the flush possibilities. That said I personnaly would like AKos against any of those hands (pre-flop). [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]