84s

84s (eight-four suited) wins 42.7% of the time against a single random opponent, which places it 130th out of the 169 starting hands — the top 76.9% of the range. At a six-handed table (five opponents) its equity falls to 14.8% and its rank moves to 114; nine-handed (eight opponents) it holds 10.7% for rank 104. A suited hand — the flush adds a few points of raw equity.

Its suited/offsuit twin 84o runs at 39.4% (rank 148), 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 95o at 42.8%, and directly below is T3o at 42.6%, so three hands are packed into a band of 0.2 points.

Played heads-up against each of the other 168 hands, 84s is a favourite against 35 of them and an underdog against 133. Its best matchup is 74o at 69.7% and its worst is 88 at 13.7% — a spread of 56 points, which is why calling 84s simply "strong" or "weak" says very little. 2 opponents land inside one point of a coinflip, the closest being 22 at 49.7%.

84s dominates 8 hands that share one of its ranks, pushing hardest against 74o at 69.7%. It is dominated by 8 hands in return, the worst of them A8s, which leaves 84s with only 28.4%. 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 63 of 78. The strongest hand in that group, AKs, is 24.5 points away, and the weakest, 32s, sits 6.8 points below. Measured against the average equity of all 169 hands, 51%, 84s lands -8.3 points from the middle of the pack, and 129 hands in the full ranking are still ahead of it.

Adding players costs equity steadily: 42.7% against one opponent, 28.5% against two, 17.4% against four and 10.7% against eight. That last figure is 96% of an even nine-way share (11.1%). The Chen formula scores this hand at 2 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 84s reads as 42.7% 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.