A low or middle pair is one of the most frustrating hands to show up as your hole cards. Everyone knows what to do with a pair of Aces or Kings; you play them to the hilt, and bully everyone at the table into giving you money or folding. A pair of fives, sixes, or twos is a little trickier. You don’t want to fold a pair, because your one card away on the flop from a powerful three-of-a-kind, but you don’t want to invest a lot of money into a hand that could turn out to be a catastrophic loser.
So does a plumber have an unfair advantage when he uses a wrench to stop a stubborn leak? Well perhaps the leak thinks so, but in reality the tradesman is just using the proper tool of the trade to solve a problem. People might look a little sideways at the gentleman if he tried to stop the leak by swearing at it using cream cheese to stop the flow of water. In short, we expect people to use the tools available to them in order to be good at their jobs. Poker odds calculators are a relatively new wrinkle that has been added to the landscape of the online poker world.