85o

85o (eight-five offsuit) wins 41.4% of the time against a single random opponent, which places it 137th out of the 169 starting hands — the top 81.1% of the range. At a six-handed table (five opponents) its equity falls to 12.1% and its rank moves to 145; nine-handed (eight opponents) it holds 8.2% for rank 139. Two unconnected offsuit cards — the class of hand most often overvalued.

Its suited/offsuit twin 85s runs at 44.6% (rank 119), a gap of 3.2 points. Losing the shared suit costs 3.2 points of raw equity. The hand directly above it in the ranking is 64s at 41.4%, and directly below is 54s at 41.4%, so three hands are packed into a band of 0 points.

Played heads-up against each of the other 168 hands, 85o is a favourite against 36 of them and an underdog against 132. Its best matchup is 52o at 68.7% and its worst is 88 at 10.4% — a spread of 58.3 points, which is why calling 85o simply "strong" or "weak" says very little.

85o dominates 8 hands that share one of its ranks, pushing hardest against 52o at 68.7%. It is dominated by 8 hands in return, the worst of them A8s, which leaves 85o with only 25.9%. 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 58 of 78. The strongest hand in that group, AKo, is 24 points away, and the weakest, 32o, sits 9.1 points below. Measured against the average equity of all 169 hands, 51%, 85o lands -9.6 points from the middle of the pack, and 136 hands in the full ranking are still ahead of it.

Adding players costs equity steadily: 41.4% against one opponent, 26.2% against two, 15.1% against four and 8.2% against eight. That last figure is 74% of an even nine-way share (11.1%). The Chen formula scores this hand at 2 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 85o 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.