83o

83o (eight-three offsuit) wins 37.3% of the time against a single random opponent, which places it 157th out of the 169 starting hands — the top 92.9% of the range. At a six-handed table (five opponents) its equity falls to 9.4% and its rank moves to 165; nine-handed (eight opponents) it holds 5.7% for rank 167. Two unconnected offsuit cards — the class of hand most often overvalued.

Its suited/offsuit twin 83s runs at 40.7% (rank 139), a gap of 3.4 points. Losing the shared suit costs 3.4 points of raw equity. The hand directly above it in the ranking is 62s at 37.6%, and directly below is 42s at 36.9%, so three hands are packed into a band of 0.7 points.

Played heads-up against each of the other 168 hands, 83o is a favourite against 31 of them and an underdog against 137. Its best matchup is 32o at 68.6% and its worst is 88 at 6.7% — a spread of 61.9 points, which is why calling 83o simply "strong" or "weak" says very little. 4 opponents land inside one point of a coinflip, the closest being 82s at 50.0%.

83o dominates 8 hands that share one of its ranks, pushing hardest against 32o at 68.6%. It is dominated by 8 hands in return, the worst of them A8s, which leaves 83o with only 22.7%. 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 68 of 78. The strongest hand in that group, AKo, is 28.1 points away, and the weakest, 32o, sits 5 points below. Measured against the average equity of all 169 hands, 51%, 83o lands -13.7 points from the middle of the pack, and 156 hands in the full ranking are still ahead of it.

Adding players costs equity steadily: 37.3% against one opponent, 22.3% against two, 11.7% against four and 5.7% against eight. That last figure is 51% 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 83o reads as 37.3% 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.