Thursday, November 4, 2010

Winning and Losing Starting Hands - Texas Holdem

Back to the database again to see what preflop hands win the most and which lose the most.  Based on a sample of  227,400 hands,  the winners are from highest to lowest.

The Winners                                                              Winning Percentage

Big Pairs – JJ – AA  (AA being the best)                                 87.9
Medium Pairs - 77 - 10,10                                                          68.7
Big Ace hands - AKs, AQs, AKo, AQo                                      89.1        
Suited Aces - Any 2 cards suited with an A                               73.5
Suited One gappers                                                                     23.9
Suited two gappers                                                                      17.5

The Losers

Non suited one gappers                                                               12.2
Low Pairs - 22 – 66                                                                        8.2
Suited connectors                                                                           8.8
Non Suited connectors                                                                 38.5
Non suited Aces                                                                            26.8
Other non suited hands                                                                   5.0       


                                                 
Every one of the hands in the winners section produced a profit over the sample.  Every loser hand resulted in losses.  I find some of these stats very odd and they require more digging to find out why some are like this.  We all know that big pairs and big ace hands will result in the highest win percentage.  I was really surprised to see that suited aces have such a high win percentage.   

In the loser column, the only surprise was suited connectors only winning 8.8% of the time and producing a loss over this large a sample size.  I really want to take a look at some of the hands in more detail to find out what happened.  I was under the impression that suited connectors should produce a profitable result.  I must be playing them wrong.

More on this subject in the next post.


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