86s

86s (eight-six suited) wins 46.3% of the time against a single random opponent, which places it 110th out of the 169 starting hands — the top 65.1% of the range. At a six-handed table (five opponents) its equity falls to 17.6% and its rank moves to 72; nine-handed (eight opponents) it holds 12.9% for rank 62. A suited hand — the flush adds a few points of raw equity.

Its suited/offsuit twin 86o runs at 43.2% (rank 127), a gap of 3.1 points. Sharing a suit is worth exactly those 3.1 points here — nothing about the ranks changes. The hand directly above it in the ranking is 97o at 46.4%, and directly below is J4o at 46.1%, so three hands are packed into a band of 0.3 points.

Played heads-up against each of the other 168 hands, 86s is a favourite against 41 of them and an underdog against 127. Its best matchup is 63o at 71.8% and its worst is 88 at 16.7% — a spread of 55.1 points, which is why calling 86s simply "strong" or "weak" says very little. 1 opponents land inside one point of a coinflip, the closest being 44 at 50.0%.

86s dominates 8 hands that share one of its ranks, pushing hardest against 63o at 71.8%. It is dominated by 8 hands in return, the worst of them J8s, which leaves 86s with only 30.9%. 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 suited hands it comes 53 of 78. The strongest hand in that group, AKs, is 20.9 points away, and the weakest, 32s, sits 10.4 points below. Measured against the average equity of all 169 hands, 51%, 86s lands -4.7 points from the middle of the pack, and 109 hands in the full ranking are still ahead of it.

Adding players costs equity steadily: 46.3% against one opponent, 31.7% against two, 20.7% against four and 12.9% against eight. That last figure is 116% of an even nine-way share (11.1%). The Chen formula scores this hand at 6 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 86s reads as 46.3% 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.