A8s

A8s (ace-eight suited) wins 61.9% of the time against a single random opponent, which places it 21th out of the 169 starting hands — the top 12.4% of the range. At a six-handed table (five opponents) its equity falls to 23.2% and its rank moves to 25; nine-handed (eight opponents) it holds 16.1% for rank 23. A suited ace — nut-flush potential on top of top-pair equity.

Its suited/offsuit twin A8o runs at 59.9% (rank 31), a gap of 2 points. Sharing a suit is worth exactly those 2 points here — nothing about the ranks changes. The hand directly above it in the ranking is KJs at 62.5%, and directly below is KTs at 61.8%, so three hands are packed into a band of 0.7 points.

Played heads-up against each of the other 168 hands, A8s is a favourite against 145 of them and an underdog against 23. Its best matchup is 82o at 77.5% and its worst is AA at 12.0% — a spread of 65.5 points, which is why calling A8s simply "strong" or "weak" says very little. 2 opponents land inside one point of a coinflip, the closest being 22 at 50.0%.

A8s dominates 8 hands that share one of its ranks, pushing hardest against 82o at 77.5%. It is dominated by 8 hands in return, the worst of them AKs, which leaves A8s with only 29.1%. 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 suited hands it comes 8 of 78. The strongest hand in that group, AKs, is 5.3 points away, and the weakest, 32s, sits 26 points below. Measured against the average equity of all 169 hands, 51%, A8s lands +10.9 points from the middle of the pack, and 20 hands in the full ranking are still ahead of it.

Adding players costs equity steadily: 61.9% against one opponent, 43.5% against two, 27.5% against four and 16.1% against eight. That last figure is 145% 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 A8s reads as 61.9% 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.