A5s

A5s (ace-five suited) wins 59.8% of the time against a single random opponent, which places it 32th out of the 169 starting hands — the top 18.9% of the range. At a six-handed table (five opponents) its equity falls to 22.4% and its rank moves to 31; nine-handed (eight opponents) it holds 15.6% for rank 31. A suited ace — nut-flush potential on top of top-pair equity.

Its suited/offsuit twin A5o runs at 57.7% (rank 42), a gap of 2.1 points. Sharing a suit is worth exactly those 2.1 points here — nothing about the ranks changes. The hand directly above it in the ranking is A8o at 59.9%, and directly below is KTo at 59.8%, so three hands are packed into a band of 0.1 points.

Played heads-up against each of the other 168 hands, A5s is a favourite against 140 of them and an underdog against 28. Its best matchup is K5o at 76.6% and its worst is AA at 13.2% — a spread of 63.4 points, which is why calling A5s simply "strong" or "weak" says very little. 1 opponents land inside one point of a coinflip, the closest being 22 at 50.1%.

A5s dominates 8 hands that share one of its ranks, pushing hardest against K5o at 76.6%. It is dominated by 8 hands in return, the worst of them AKs, which leaves A5s with only 30.3%. 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 suited hands it comes 14 of 78. The strongest hand in that group, AKs, is 7.4 points away, and the weakest, 32s, sits 23.9 points below. Measured against the average equity of all 169 hands, 51%, A5s lands +8.8 points from the middle of the pack, and 31 hands in the full ranking are still ahead of it.

Adding players costs equity steadily: 59.8% against one opponent, 41.3% against two, 25.7% against four and 15.6% against eight. That last figure is 141% of an even nine-way share (11.1%). The Chen formula scores this hand at 7 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 A5s reads as 59.8% 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.