The Weakest Hand in Poker
While many of us do not give much thought to which hand is the weakest hand in poker, I would like to open this up for debate. Many hands can be up for consideration as poker’s weakest hand. We will look at each of these hands and discuss which hand is in fact the weakest hand in poker.
When thinking of weak hands that can be played on Full Tilt, the first hand I think of is the 2-7 offsuit (known around the poker blogging community as “the hammer.” Very often, I hear announcers on television bill this hand as the worst starting hand in poker. When crunching the numbers, the two seven not suited stands up against one random hand 35% of the time. Against two random hands, the seven deuce is a winner less than 20% of the time based on the starting hand strength.
The hammer is the subject of prop games on poker television shows, such as High Stakes Poker and Poker After Dark. The theory is that this hand is the weakest hand in poker, and if someone wins with it, everyone at the table pays. This makes for a compelling argument that the 2-7 might hammer the field in being poker’s weakest hand.
The two-three stands up against a lone hand 32% of the time heads up. This would be weaker than the 2-7, as the 2-7 wins 35% of the time, according to the poker statistics. When up against two random hands, the 2-3 prevails roughly 15% of the time. This further suggests that the three-deuce is perhaps the weakest or worst hand in poker.
In reality, we can crunch numbers all we want. The fact of the matter is the worst hand in poker is the hand that we are unable to lay down even though we know we are beat. Such a hand has not a name, nor does it have a face. There is not even a number associated with it. The worst or weakest hands in poker are the hands we cannot just get away from. For some people, it may be big slick, when the board falls low, and we continue pounding at the pot, getting call after call, only to have a river trap sprung upon us.
Maybe that weakest hand for us on Full Tilt Poker is pocket jacks, where we cannot help but bet the ace and call all the way down, knowing the ace helped the villain. The fact of the matter is, the weakest hand in poker is the hand you cannot get away from – even though you know for certain you are beat. Lose the weakest link from your game now and watch your bottom line climb.