A8o

A8o (ace-eight offsuit) wins 59.9% of the time against a single random opponent, which places it 31th out of the 169 starting hands — the top 18.3% of the range. At a six-handed table (five opponents) its equity falls to 19.0% and its rank moves to 58; nine-handed (eight opponents) it holds 12.0% for rank 78. An ace-high hand — watch out for kicker trouble and domination.

Its suited/offsuit twin A8s runs at 61.9% (rank 21), a gap of 2 points. Losing the shared suit costs 2 points of raw equity. The hand directly above it in the ranking is K9s at 59.9%, and directly below is A5s 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, A8o is a favourite against 144 of them and an underdog against 24. Its best matchup is 82o at 76.8% and its worst is AA at 6.6% — a spread of 70.2 points, which is why calling A8o simply "strong" or "weak" says very little.

A8o dominates 8 hands that share one of its ranks, pushing hardest against 82o at 76.8%. It is dominated by 8 hands in return, the worst of them AKs, which leaves A8o with only 25.0%. 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 8 of 78. The strongest hand in that group, AKo, is 5.5 points away, and the weakest, 32o, sits 27.6 points below. Measured against the average equity of all 169 hands, 51%, A8o lands +8.9 points from the middle of the pack, and 30 hands in the full ranking are still ahead of it.

Adding players costs equity steadily: 59.9% against one opponent, 40.4% against two, 23.6% against four and 12.0% against eight. That last figure is 108% 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 A8o reads as 59.9% 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.