97s

97s (nine-seven suited) wins 49.2% of the time against a single random opponent, which places it 94th out of the 169 starting hands — the top 55.6% of the range. At a six-handed table (five opponents) its equity falls to 18.9% and its rank moves to 60; nine-handed (eight opponents) it holds 13.7% for rank 50. A suited hand — the flush adds a few points of raw equity.

Its suited/offsuit twin 97o runs at 46.4% (rank 109), a gap of 2.8 points. Sharing a suit is worth exactly those 2.8 points here — nothing about the ranks changes. The hand directly above it in the ranking is J4s at 49.2%, and directly below is Q4o at 49.1%, so three hands are packed into a band of 0.1 points.

Played heads-up against each of the other 168 hands, 97s is a favourite against 56 of them and an underdog against 112. Its best matchup is 72o at 74.7% and its worst is 99 at 16.5% — a spread of 58.2 points, which is why calling 97s simply "strong" or "weak" says very little. 1 opponents land inside one point of a coinflip, the closest being 55 at 49.8%.

97s dominates 8 hands that share one of its ranks, pushing hardest against 72o at 74.7%. It is dominated by 8 hands in return, the worst of them Q9s, which leaves 97s with only 30.5%. 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 suited hands it comes 45 of 78. The strongest hand in that group, AKs, is 18 points away, and the weakest, 32s, sits 13.3 points below. Measured against the average equity of all 169 hands, 51%, 97s lands -1.8 points from the middle of the pack, and 93 hands in the full ranking are still ahead of it.

Adding players costs equity steadily: 49.2% against one opponent, 34.4% against two, 21.8% against four and 13.7% against eight. That last figure is 123% of an even nine-way share (11.1%). The Chen formula scores this hand at 6.5 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 97s reads as 49.2% 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.