52s

52s (five-deuce suited) wins 37.9% of the time against a single random opponent, which places it 154th out of the 169 starting hands — the top 91.1% of the range. At a six-handed table (five opponents) its equity falls to 14.1% and its rank moves to 122; nine-handed (eight opponents) it holds 10.5% for rank 108. A suited hand — the flush adds a few points of raw equity.

Its suited/offsuit twin 52o runs at 34.3% (rank 166), a gap of 3.6 points. Sharing a suit is worth exactly those 3.6 points here — nothing about the ranks changes. The hand directly above it in the ranking is 72s at 38.0%, and directly below is 64o at 37.9%, so three hands are packed into a band of 0.1 points.

Played heads-up against each of the other 168 hands, 52s is a favourite against 6 of them and an underdog against 162. Its best matchup is 42o at 61.7% and its worst is 55 at 15.3% — a spread of 46.4 points, which is why calling 52s simply "strong" or "weak" says very little. 2 opponents land inside one point of a coinflip, the closest being 43s at 49.7%.

52s dominates 2 hands that share one of its ranks, pushing hardest against 42o at 61.7%. It is dominated by 8 hands in return, the worst of them A5s, which leaves 52s with only 27.8%. 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 suited hands it comes 75 of 78. The strongest hand in that group, AKs, is 29.3 points away, and the weakest, 32s, sits 2 points below. Measured against the average equity of all 169 hands, 51%, 52s lands -13.1 points from the middle of the pack, and 153 hands in the full ranking are still ahead of it.

Adding players costs equity steadily: 37.9% against one opponent, 25.8% against two, 16.0% against four and 10.5% against eight. That last figure is 95% of an even nine-way share (11.1%). The Chen formula scores this hand at 2.5 points, and it arrives 0.3% of the time (4 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 52s reads as 37.9% 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.