85s

85s (eight-five suited) wins 44.6% of the time against a single random opponent, which places it 119th out of the 169 starting hands — the top 70.4% of the range. At a six-handed table (five opponents) its equity falls to 16.3% and its rank moves to 92; nine-handed (eight opponents) it holds 11.8% for rank 81. A suited hand — the flush adds a few points of raw equity.

Its suited/offsuit twin 85o runs at 41.4% (rank 137), a gap of 3.2 points. Sharing a suit is worth exactly those 3.2 points here — nothing about the ranks changes. The hand directly above it in the ranking is T2s at 44.8%, and directly below is 96o at 44.6%, so three hands are packed into a band of 0.2 points.

Played heads-up against each of the other 168 hands, 85s is a favourite against 39 of them and an underdog against 129. Its best matchup is 53o at 69.9% and its worst is 88 at 15.4% — a spread of 54.5 points, which is why calling 85s simply "strong" or "weak" says very little. 3 opponents land inside one point of a coinflip, the closest being 33 at 50.5%.

85s dominates 8 hands that share one of its ranks, pushing hardest against 53o at 69.9%. It is dominated by 8 hands in return, the worst of them A8s, which leaves 85s with only 30.0%. 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 58 of 78. The strongest hand in that group, AKs, is 22.6 points away, and the weakest, 32s, sits 8.7 points below. Measured against the average equity of all 169 hands, 51%, 85s lands -6.4 points from the middle of the pack, and 118 hands in the full ranking are still ahead of it.

Adding players costs equity steadily: 44.6% against one opponent, 30.2% against two, 18.9% against four and 11.8% against eight. That last figure is 106% of an even nine-way share (11.1%). The Chen formula scores this hand at 4 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 85s reads as 44.6% 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.