82s

82s (eight-deuce suited) wins 40.3% of the time against a single random opponent, which places it 142th out of the 169 starting hands — the top 84% of the range. At a six-handed table (five opponents) its equity falls to 13.3% and its rank moves to 133; nine-handed (eight opponents) it holds 9.4% for rank 124. A suited hand — the flush adds a few points of raw equity.

Its suited/offsuit twin 82o runs at 36.8% (rank 159), a gap of 3.5 points. Sharing a suit is worth exactly those 3.5 points here — nothing about the ranks changes. The hand directly above it in the ranking is 75o at 40.5%, and directly below is 73s at 40.1%, so three hands are packed into a band of 0.4 points.

Played heads-up against each of the other 168 hands, 82s is a favourite against 31 of them and an underdog against 137. Its best matchup is 72o at 71.5% and its worst is 88 at 12.1% — a spread of 59.4 points, which is why calling 82s simply "strong" or "weak" says very little. 2 opponents land inside one point of a coinflip, the closest being 83o at 50.0%.

82s dominates 8 hands that share one of its ranks, pushing hardest against 72o at 71.5%. It is dominated by 8 hands in return, the worst of them A8s, which leaves 82s with only 26.8%. 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 69 of 78. The strongest hand in that group, AKs, is 26.9 points away, and the weakest, 32s, sits 4.4 points below. Measured against the average equity of all 169 hands, 51%, 82s lands -10.7 points from the middle of the pack, and 141 hands in the full ranking are still ahead of it.

Adding players costs equity steadily: 40.3% against one opponent, 25.6% against two, 15.6% against four and 9.4% against eight. That last figure is 85% of an even nine-way share (11.1%). The Chen formula scores this hand at 1 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 82s reads as 40.3% 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.