Commonly known as the worst hand in poker, the 7 2 is renowned as such in that it is the lowest two unpaired cards you can have that also have no possibility of making a straight that involve them both. So, though 7 2 ‘dominates’ the 6 2 and 5 2, those latter online poker hands have slightly better odds than the 7 2 against hands like AA and KK, in that some percentage of the time they can make a straight. The 7 2 is also known by a variety of sad nicknames, such as the Hammer among some tables, for the proclivity of thrill seeking players getting kicks out of trying to win with the worst hand possible. It can become a kind of shoving match or power play, proving that online poker isn’t luck, but skill and timing. There are variations of poker cash games, as seen on High Stakes Poker, where a player who wins with the 7 2 gets a bonus from all other players when they win a hand with the Hammer. This makes it hard to tell whether a player is raising and reraising with AA or rags, and can create some great action at the table.
