82o

82o (eight-deuce offsuit) wins 36.8% of the time against a single random opponent, which places it 159th out of the 169 starting hands — the top 94.1% of the range. At a six-handed table (five opponents) its equity falls to 9.0% and its rank moves to 167; nine-handed (eight opponents) it holds 5.6% for rank 168. Two unconnected offsuit cards — the class of hand most often overvalued.

Its suited/offsuit twin 82s runs at 40.3% (rank 142), 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 42s at 36.9%, and directly below is 73o at 36.6%, so three hands are packed into a band of 0.3 points.

Played heads-up against each of the other 168 hands, 82o is a favourite against 29 of them and an underdog against 139. Its best matchup is 72o at 70.2% and its worst is 88 at 6.7% — a spread of 63.5 points, which is why calling 82o simply "strong" or "weak" says very little. 4 opponents land inside one point of a coinflip, the closest being 76s at 49.6%.

82o dominates 8 hands that share one of its ranks, pushing hardest against 72o at 70.2%. It is dominated by 8 hands in return, the worst of them A8s, which leaves 82o with only 22.5%. 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 69 of 78. The strongest hand in that group, AKo, is 28.6 points away, and the weakest, 32o, sits 4.5 points below. Measured against the average equity of all 169 hands, 51%, 82o lands -14.2 points from the middle of the pack, and 158 hands in the full ranking are still ahead of it.

Adding players costs equity steadily: 36.8% against one opponent, 21.8% against two, 11.5% against four and 5.6% against eight. That last figure is 50% of an even nine-way share (11.1%). The Chen formula scores this hand at -1 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 82o reads as 36.8% 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.