A7o

A7o (ace-seven offsuit) wins 58.7% of the time against a single random opponent, which places it 36th out of the 169 starting hands — the top 21.3% of the range. At a six-handed table (five opponents) its equity falls to 18.3% and its rank moves to 66; nine-handed (eight opponents) it holds 11.3% for rank 90. An ace-high hand — watch out for kicker trouble and domination.

Its suited/offsuit twin A7s runs at 60.9% (rank 24), 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 A4s at 59.0%, and directly below is K8s at 58.3%, so three hands are packed into a band of 0.7 points.

Played heads-up against each of the other 168 hands, A7o is a favourite against 142 of them and an underdog against 26. Its best matchup is 72o at 77.2% and its worst is AA at 6.7% — a spread of 70.5 points, which is why calling A7o simply "strong" or "weak" says very little.

A7o dominates 8 hands that share one of its ranks, pushing hardest against 72o at 77.2%. It is dominated by 8 hands in return, the worst of them AKs, which leaves A7o with only 25.1%. 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 10 of 78. The strongest hand in that group, AKo, is 6.7 points away, and the weakest, 32o, sits 26.4 points below. Measured against the average equity of all 169 hands, 51%, A7o lands +7.7 points from the middle of the pack, and 35 hands in the full ranking are still ahead of it.

Adding players costs equity steadily: 58.7% against one opponent, 39.2% against two, 22.6% against four and 11.3% against eight. That last figure is 102% 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 A7o reads as 58.7% 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.

A7o 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) 20.9%. By the river it has made a pair or better 48.7% of the time.

For straights, the flop completes one 0.0000% of the time (zero flops — the two cards are too far apart), gives an eight-out draw 1.63% and a four-out gutshot 5.88%. By the river a straight using a hole card completes 2.89% of the time.

Put together, A7o flops a pair or better or a strong draw (an eight-out straight draw) 34.1% of the time — rank 129 of the 156 unpaired hands (tied with 13 others). The highest is JTs, T9s, 98s and 4 others at 50.6% and the lowest AKo, A2o at 32.8%.

Against one random hand, A7o goes from 58.8% before the flop up to 77.1% when either card pairs, and down to 50.1% when both miss. It connects 32.4% of the time (6,356 of 19,600 flops). Nothing ranks above A, so a miss never brings an overcard.

By board shape: rainbow 59.5%, two-tone 58.5%, monotone 57.2%. A monotone flop in one of your suits gives 66.6%. A paired board gives 62.2%, and a connected board (three ranks within five) 57.9%. The best row in the table is "Either card hits (a matching rank on the flop)" at 77.1%, the worst "Neither card hits" at 50.1%.

The 58.7% 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 58.84% (a gap of 0.14 points). Each equity is taken with the flop out and the turn and river still to come.