43o

43o (four-three offsuit) wins 35.2% of the time against a single random opponent, which places it 164th out of the 169 starting hands — the top 97% of the range. At a six-handed table (five opponents) its equity falls to 10.7% and its rank moves to 156; nine-handed (eight opponents) it holds 7.5% for rank 149. A connector — straight potential, but nothing else to lean on.

Its suited/offsuit twin 43s runs at 38.7% (rank 150), a gap of 3.5 points. Losing the shared suit costs 3.5 points of raw equity. The hand directly above it in the ranking is 32s at 35.9%, and directly below is 72o at 34.4%, so three hands are packed into a band of 1.5 points.

Played heads-up against each of the other 168 hands, 43o is a favourite against 5 of them and an underdog against 163. Its best matchup is 32o at 54.8% and its worst is 44 at 12.5% — a spread of 42.3 points, which is why calling 43o simply "strong" or "weak" says very little. 2 opponents land inside one point of a coinflip, the closest being 42s at 50.7%.

It is dominated by 8 hands in return, the worst of them A4s, which leaves 43o with only 25.0%. A single kicker can move the number by tens of points, and the full table below lists every one of those opponents.

Within the 78 offsuit hands it comes 73 of 78. The strongest hand in that group, AKo, is 30.2 points away, and the weakest, 32o, sits 2.9 points below. Measured against the average equity of all 169 hands, 51%, 43o lands -15.8 points from the middle of the pack, and 163 hands in the full ranking are still ahead of it.

Adding players costs equity steadily: 35.2% against one opponent, 22.5% against two, 12.9% against four and 7.5% against eight. That last figure is 68% of an even nine-way share (11.1%). The Chen formula scores this hand at 3 points, and it arrives 0.9% of the time (12 of 1,326 combinations).

One caveat worth repeating: every number on this page assumes the opponent holds a completely random hand and that the pot goes to showdown. Real opponents hold ranges, and a range that has already put money in is stronger than random — which is exactly why 43o reads as 35.2% here but plays worse than that against a raise. Use the 168 rows in the table below to see which specific holdings are the problem, rather than treating the headline figure as a verdict on the hand.