54o

54o (five-four offsuit) wins 38.1% of the time against a single random opponent, which places it 152th out of the 169 starting hands — the top 89.9% of the range. At a six-handed table (five opponents) its equity falls to 12.7% and its rank moves to 142; nine-handed (eight opponents) it holds 9.0% for rank 131. A connector — straight potential, but nothing else to lean on.

Its suited/offsuit twin 54s runs at 41.4% (rank 138), a gap of 3.3 points. Losing the shared suit costs 3.3 points of raw equity. The hand directly above it in the ranking is 74o at 38.6%, and directly below is 72s at 38.0%, so three hands are packed into a band of 0.6 points.

Played heads-up against each of the other 168 hands, 54o is a favourite against 10 of them and an underdog against 158. Its best matchup is 42o at 61.8% and its worst is 55 at 14.2% — a spread of 47.6 points, which is why calling 54o simply "strong" or "weak" says very little. 2 opponents land inside one point of a coinflip, the closest being 62o at 49.6%.

54o dominates 2 hands that share one of its ranks, pushing hardest against 42o at 61.8%. It is dominated by 8 hands in return, the worst of them A5s, which leaves 54o with only 26.9%. 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 66 of 78. The strongest hand in that group, AKo, is 27.3 points away, and the weakest, 32o, sits 5.8 points below. Measured against the average equity of all 169 hands, 51%, 54o lands -12.9 points from the middle of the pack, and 151 hands in the full ranking are still ahead of it.

Adding players costs equity steadily: 38.1% against one opponent, 25.1% against two, 15.0% against four and 9.0% against eight. That last figure is 81% of an even nine-way share (11.1%). The Chen formula scores this hand at 3.5 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 54o reads as 38.1% 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.