86o

86o (eight-six offsuit) wins 43.2% of the time against a single random opponent, which places it 127th out of the 169 starting hands — the top 75.1% of the range. At a six-handed table (five opponents) its equity falls to 13.9% and its rank moves to 125; nine-handed (eight opponents) it holds 9.2% for rank 127. Two unconnected offsuit cards — the class of hand most often overvalued.

Its suited/offsuit twin 86s runs at 46.3% (rank 110), a gap of 3.1 points. Losing the shared suit costs 3.1 points of raw equity. The hand directly above it in the ranking is 93s at 43.2%, and directly below is 65s at 43.0%, so three hands are packed into a band of 0.2 points.

Played heads-up against each of the other 168 hands, 86o is a favourite against 38 of them and an underdog against 130. Its best matchup is 62o at 70.9% and its worst is 88 at 11.8% — a spread of 59.1 points, which is why calling 86o simply "strong" or "weak" says very little. 2 opponents land inside one point of a coinflip, the closest being 22 at 50.0%.

86o dominates 8 hands that share one of its ranks, pushing hardest against 62o at 70.9%. It is dominated by 8 hands in return, the worst of them J8s, which leaves 86o 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 offsuit hands it comes 53 of 78. The strongest hand in that group, AKo, is 22.2 points away, and the weakest, 32o, sits 10.9 points below. Measured against the average equity of all 169 hands, 51%, 86o lands -7.8 points from the middle of the pack, and 126 hands in the full ranking are still ahead of it.

Adding players costs equity steadily: 43.2% against one opponent, 28.6% against two, 17.0% against four and 9.2% against eight. That last figure is 83% of an even nine-way share (11.1%). The Chen formula scores this hand at 4 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 86o reads as 43.2% 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.