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Originally Posted by browni3141
Which of those charts prefer A2s over K6o? It would be weird if one did. I'm not sure what the color coding means.
A2o gets dominated by all the other Ax which are frequently played so it's hard to make too much money on A-high boards. It can make a rare wheel straight but it's not even to the nuts and continuing postflop with just a non-nut gutter and over to the board is often only going to be marginal at best. K6o has a slightly better kicker which can make middle/top pair sometimes. Both hands suck and should only very rarely be played. When they are played, like BB facing a SB open, they are very, very marginal.
Oops you're right, I misread this chart:
https://imgur.com/a/6pc3jn5
Green is for calling, purple is for raising, yellow is for borderline hands that CAN be raises, and in almost all charts they fall under raise or fold but in this case it clearly has to mean raise or call. I've gone through these charts a lot and yellow almost always means raise or fold, so I auto identified the colour yellow with the fold. Sorry
What prompted this question was really the Zenith Poker chart I've seen in one of their videos, this one:
https://imgur.com/a/hlhRgLN
I then saw A2 avoided in charts maybe one too many times and thought there was a connection.
Your explanation makes sense, A2 is the only ace that will never dominate any other aces which probably cuts into its EV enough for it to be a near 100% fold in that Zenith chart.
Thank you for the explanation