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The worst starting hand in Texas hold 'em is "The Beer Hand", or "72 offsuit" or plain "72o." Which is why I like to play it.

Super Speed six-seater SNG, hand #6. Ante is 100, and the blinds are 1,000/500. Giz to my left posts the big blind, I call. But of course! You see, I have 72o. And I don't have an intention to fold it. I'm the stack leader with 38,900 chips. Everybody calls but Giz.

The flop is AKT. Most discouraging.

But I'm determined. I choose to hammer, and go all-in. Nice and clean bluff. Will anybody call it against my biggest stack?

v22251 will. He shows "Kojak" (KJ).

When the turn, 8, hits the table, my destiny is sealed.

For what it's worth, the river is 5.

My stack plummets to 17,600, and I'm not even the short-stacked.

Did I have fun? Not really. If the flop had been something else, then the situation might have ended up the other way, but to go straight to the jugulat against AKT with 72o is a suicide mission.

But I had to do it. Just had to. I mean, I had choices. But I chose to toy. And pay the dues.

I didn't know that 72 offsuit (72o) is the worst of poker hands... Until I did. It happened when I won a three-way all-in with "Beer Hand", 72o (   • Kicking some serious butt with the worst p...  ). My 72o beat "High Five" (A5) and "Dogs" (K9) when I hit a 7 on the flop and got axes (77).

So, what's the deal with the worst hand?

72o is called "The Beer Hand" because:

-it's either time for a beer; (It always is...)
-if you win with this you need to get other players a beer; (But there's nobody left!)
-or only a person full of beer would play this hand (More likely than not I've been a beer-soaked boy)

The Beer Hand has the worst chance of winning of all possible pocket cards in a full table playing Texas Hold'em.

72o just is the statistically smallest hand of scoring anything with so few options. The thing is that, like, your odds of scoring 2222 is equal to your odds of scoring AAAA. But when we go to the other hands, the weakest is a straight. And with 72o you can't make a straight plus your chances of scoring a flush are but miniscule

Another name for 72o (Oxford Dictionary poker parlance) is "Hammer". Because it is the worst, some players, including yours truly, play it for fun, or "hammer." You can try to hammer with it - dunnit - you can play it when hammered - been there!

In real life, however, there is no single "worst hand" in poker. The worst hand is the hand that causes you the most damage.

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