95o

95o (nine-five offsuit) wins 42.8% of the time against a single random opponent, which places it 129th out of the 169 starting hands — the top 76.3% of the range. At a six-handed table (five opponents) its equity falls to 11.6% and its rank moves to 149; nine-handed (eight opponents) it holds 7.3% for rank 151. Two unconnected offsuit cards — the class of hand most often overvalued.

Its suited/offsuit twin 95s runs at 45.7% (rank 114), a gap of 2.9 points. Losing the shared suit costs 2.9 points of raw equity. The hand directly above it in the ranking is 65s at 43.0%, and directly below is 84s at 42.7%, so three hands are packed into a band of 0.3 points.

Played heads-up against each of the other 168 hands, 95o is a favourite against 48 of them and an underdog against 120. Its best matchup is 52o at 70.2% and its worst is 99 at 8.7% — a spread of 61.5 points, which is why calling 95o simply "strong" or "weak" says very little.

95o dominates 8 hands that share one of its ranks, pushing hardest against 52o at 70.2%. It is dominated by 8 hands in return, the worst of them A9s, which leaves 95o with only 24.5%. 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 54 of 78. The strongest hand in that group, AKo, is 22.6 points away, and the weakest, 32o, sits 10.5 points below. Measured against the average equity of all 169 hands, 51%, 95o lands -8.2 points from the middle of the pack, and 128 hands in the full ranking are still ahead of it.

Adding players costs equity steadily: 42.8% against one opponent, 27.0% against two, 14.8% against four and 7.3% against eight. That last figure is 66% of an even nine-way share (11.1%). The Chen formula scores this hand at 0.5 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 95o reads as 42.8% 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.

95o pairs the board on the flop — at least one of its two ranks hits — 32.4% of the time, and flops top pair or better (the paired card is the highest on the board, or two pair and up) 8.70%. By the river it has made a pair or better 48.7% of the time.

For straights, the flop completes one 0.327% of the time (64 flops), gives an eight-out draw 2.61% and a four-out gutshot 12.7%. By the river a straight using a hole card completes 5.03% of the time.

Put together, 95o flops a pair or better or a strong draw (an eight-out straight draw) 35.4% of the time — rank 109 of the 156 unpaired hands (tied with 1 other). The highest is JTs, T9s, 98s and 4 others at 50.6% and the lowest AKo, A2o at 32.8%.

Against one random hand, 95o goes from 42.7% before the flop up to 66.8% when either card pairs, and down to 31.1% when both miss. It connects 32.4% of the time (6,356 of 19,600 flops). Missing with a card above 9 on board leaves 30.4%; missing with nothing above 9 leaves 34.7%.

By board shape: rainbow 42.7%, two-tone 42.5%, monotone 44.4%. A monotone flop in one of your suits gives 52.8%. A paired board gives 40.9%, and a connected board (three ranks within five) 48.7%. The best row in the table is "Either card hits (a matching rank on the flop)" at 66.8%, the worst "and at least one card above 9" at 30.4%.

The 42.8% at the top of the page is a 400,000-hand simulation; this table counts every deal of the opponent's two cards and the five-card board (2,097,572,400 per starting hand), which puts the pre-flop figure at 42.67% (a gap of 0.13 points). Each equity is taken with the flop out and the turn and river still to come.