Talk:LHE:Preflop:Pair

I'm eager to hear others' input on the [de]merits of the way I envisioned the pocket pair articles shaping up when I did the preflop template:

Does it make sense to have separate articles for JJ, TT, 99? Part of me feels like this is overkill, and part of me feels like these are sufficiently different that they're worth documenting. As I write the articles, though, it dawns on me that the differences in the pocket pairs are in degree, or gradual. What I mean is this: everyone knows there's a huge difference in playing KK or TT, but the difference between JJ and TT is much less. So I end up being tempted to write things like, "JJ is more sensitive to overcards than QQ, but less so than TT" which of course is obvious.

But I think it is kind of cool to summarize the stats and print appearances of one hand. I don't plan to take it so far as to write articles for 33 or 84s, but for the big pairs it makes sense. I think. -- PhilipR 19:50, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)


 * I think it's an ambitious task to write about this many specific hands, but I guess it could be valuable. There's something to be said about each high pair. Once you get into comparing the merits of AQo vs. AJo I can't think of that much you'd say differently, besides the obvious. 65.96.248.207 21:52, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)