Let’s look at these statements in detail. Half of all profits are attributable to the five most profitable starting hands (AA, KK, QQ, JJ, and Ace-King suited).This represents only 18.4% of all the hole cards dealt.Only 40 of the 169 starting hands are profitable.We have taken a closer look at these statistics and were able to draw some very interesting conclusions: But the resulting conclusions can be but also be transferred to the early phases of tournaments (SnG, MTT, DoN). The former Ongame poker site “Pokerroom” (now part of Bwin) had published an analysis of over 120 million starting hands on its website. The figures were derived from cash games (heads up, shorthanded, full ring tables).
