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I heard that Q7o is the median hand in a heads up PF situation. But it comes out at a 51.766% favorite against a random hand on PokerTracker.
That was what I heard years ago. But I just downloaded version 1.2 of Pokerstove and my results agree with yours. As mentioned elsewhere Q4 offsuit does come closer to 50/50 heads up using these tools.
In my deep storage are some old poker books, including a book of holdem computer simulations by someone I think was named Mike Barry. If memory serves he wrote his own shuffling algorithm and computer simulator and his book came up with the term first (or readers of his book did). If so, it's possible his algorithm and simulator (this was about 1985) were flawed compared to Pokerstove and even Caro's Probe.
~ Rick