96o

96o (nine-six offsuit) wins 44.6% of the time against a single random opponent, which places it 120th out of the 169 starting hands — the top 71% of the range. At a six-handed table (five opponents) its equity falls to 13.5% and its rank moves to 129; nine-handed (eight opponents) it holds 8.5% for rank 134. Two unconnected offsuit cards — the class of hand most often overvalued.

Its suited/offsuit twin 96s runs at 47.3% (rank 104), a gap of 2.7 points. Losing the shared suit costs 2.7 points of raw equity. The hand directly above it in the ranking is 85s at 44.6%, and directly below is T5o at 44.4%, so three hands are packed into a band of 0.2 points.

Played heads-up against each of the other 168 hands, 96o is a favourite against 50 of them and an underdog against 118. Its best matchup is 62o at 72.2% and its worst is 99 at 10.2% — a spread of 62 points, which is why calling 96o simply "strong" or "weak" says very little.

96o dominates 8 hands that share one of its ranks, pushing hardest against 62o at 72.2%. It is dominated by 8 hands in return, the worst of them J9s, which leaves 96o with only 25.3%. 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 49 of 78. The strongest hand in that group, AKo, is 20.8 points away, and the weakest, 32o, sits 12.3 points below. Measured against the average equity of all 169 hands, 51%, 96o lands -6.4 points from the middle of the pack, and 119 hands in the full ranking are still ahead of it.

Adding players costs equity steadily: 44.6% against one opponent, 28.7% against two, 16.4% against four and 8.5% against eight. That last figure is 77% of an even nine-way share (11.1%). The Chen formula scores this hand at 2.5 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 96o 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.