53s

53s (five-three suited) wins 39.6% of the time against a single random opponent, which places it 146th out of the 169 starting hands — the top 86.4% of the range. At a six-handed table (five opponents) its equity falls to 15.5% and its rank moves to 102; nine-handed (eight opponents) it holds 11.5% for rank 85. A suited hand — the flush adds a few points of raw equity.

Its suited/offsuit twin 53o runs at 36.3% (rank 161), a gap of 3.3 points. Sharing a suit is worth exactly those 3.3 points here — nothing about the ranks changes. The hand directly above it in the ranking is 93o at 39.9%, and directly below is 63s at 39.5%, so three hands are packed into a band of 0.4 points.

Played heads-up against each of the other 168 hands, 53s is a favourite against 10 of them and an underdog against 158. Its best matchup is 32o at 62.4% and its worst is 55 at 17.3% — a spread of 45.1 points, which is why calling 53s simply "strong" or "weak" says very little. 4 opponents land inside one point of a coinflip, the closest being 22 at 50.0%.

53s dominates 2 hands that share one of its ranks, pushing hardest against 32o at 62.4%. It is dominated by 8 hands in return, the worst of them A5s, which leaves 53s with only 29.3%. 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 71 of 78. The strongest hand in that group, AKs, is 27.6 points away, and the weakest, 32s, sits 3.7 points below. Measured against the average equity of all 169 hands, 51%, 53s lands -11.4 points from the middle of the pack, and 145 hands in the full ranking are still ahead of it.

Adding players costs equity steadily: 39.6% against one opponent, 27.3% against two, 17.5% against four and 11.5% against eight. That last figure is 104% of an even nine-way share (11.1%). The Chen formula scores this hand at 4.5 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 53s reads as 39.6% 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.