54s

54s (five-four suited) wins 41.4% of the time against a single random opponent, which places it 138th out of the 169 starting hands — the top 81.7% of the range. At a six-handed table (five opponents) its equity falls to 16.3% and its rank moves to 93; nine-handed (eight opponents) it holds 12.6% for rank 66. A suited connector — straight and flush draws in the same holding.

Its suited/offsuit twin 54o runs at 38.1% (rank 152), 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 85o at 41.4%, and directly below is 83s at 40.7%, so three hands are packed into a band of 0.7 points.

Played heads-up against each of the other 168 hands, 54s is a favourite against 16 of them and an underdog against 152. Its best matchup is 42o at 63.2% and its worst is 55 at 18.9% — a spread of 44.3 points, which is why calling 54s simply "strong" or "weak" says very little. 7 opponents land inside one point of a coinflip, the closest being 33 at 50.1%.

54s dominates 2 hands that share one of its ranks, pushing hardest against 42o at 63.2%. It is dominated by 8 hands in return, the worst of them A5s, which leaves 54s with only 30.8%. 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 67 of 78. The strongest hand in that group, AKs, is 25.8 points away, and the weakest, 32s, sits 5.5 points below. Measured against the average equity of all 169 hands, 51%, 54s lands -9.6 points from the middle of the pack, and 137 hands in the full ranking are still ahead of it.

Adding players costs equity steadily: 41.4% against one opponent, 28.9% against two, 19.0% against four and 12.6% against eight. That last figure is 114% of an even nine-way share (11.1%). The Chen formula scores this hand at 5.5 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 54s reads as 41.4% 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.