Suffice it to say that no, that's not the reason. The reason is entirely high-card strength vs all the hands including cards less than 7, like 65, 64, etc. ED

Suffice it to say that no, that's not the reason. The reason is entirely high-card strength vs all the hands including cards less than 7, like 65, 64, etc. EDIT: And the value of pairing the 7 vs pairing the 3, again where high card strength matters--6X pairing the 6 won't matter as often. Given there's only two hands, they are somewhat likely to showdown unimproved, not making a pair or better. If you analyzed ten handed tables, 2-7 fares the worst.