In poker, bad odds don’t come as bad as this. With four cards needed from the flop, turn and river to get a straight or a flush, 7-2 automatically puts the player at a huge disadvantage.Īs well as this, the low value of the starting cards prevents any possibility of a high card win even with a poor K-3, for example, it may be worth hanging on to a low pot on the off-chance the king wins out as highest card. It is no surprise that the off-suit 7-2 is, by common consensus, the worst poker hand and the one everyone should automatically muck (throw away). Here is a list of the top four hands every Hold'em player should be wary of: 1.
The full range of possible starting hands in Texas Hold ’em Poker is vast when drawing two cards at random from a 52 card pack, there are 1,326 possible combinations.Īmong these, there are the hands everyone desires, and hands no-one seems to want, such as the ones listed below.