A4o

A4o (ace-four offsuit) wins 56.8% of the time against a single random opponent, which places it 50th out of the 169 starting hands — the top 29.6% of the range. At a six-handed table (five opponents) its equity falls to 17.2% and its rank moves to 79; nine-handed (eight opponents) it holds 11.2% for rank 94. An ace-high hand — watch out for kicker trouble and domination.

Its suited/offsuit twin A4s runs at 59.0% (rank 35), a gap of 2.2 points. Losing the shared suit costs 2.2 points of raw equity. The hand directly above it in the ranking is K6s at 56.8%, and directly below is Q8s at 56.0%, so three hands are packed into a band of 0.8 points.

Played heads-up against each of the other 168 hands, A4o is a favourite against 136 of them and an underdog against 32. Its best matchup is K4o at 75.9% and its worst is AA at 7.7% — a spread of 68.2 points, which is why calling A4o simply "strong" or "weak" says very little. 2 opponents land inside one point of a coinflip, the closest being A3s at 50.3%.

A4o dominates 8 hands that share one of its ranks, pushing hardest against K4o at 75.9%. It is dominated by 8 hands in return, the worst of them AKs, which leaves A4o with only 25.5%. 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 16 of 78. The strongest hand in that group, AKo, is 8.6 points away, and the weakest, 32o, sits 24.5 points below. Measured against the average equity of all 169 hands, 51%, A4o lands +5.8 points from the middle of the pack, and 49 hands in the full ranking are still ahead of it.

Adding players costs equity steadily: 56.8% against one opponent, 37.2% against two, 21.3% against four and 11.2% against eight. That last figure is 101% of an even nine-way share (11.1%). The Chen formula scores this hand at 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 A4o reads as 56.8% 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.