AJo

AJo (ace-jack offsuit) wins 63.6% of the time against a single random opponent, which places it 15th out of the 169 starting hands — the top 8.9% of the range. At a six-handed table (five opponents) its equity falls to 24.3% and its rank moves to 21; nine-handed (eight opponents) it holds 16.1% for rank 24. An ace-high hand — watch out for kicker trouble and domination.

Its suited/offsuit twin AJs runs at 65.4% (rank 11), a gap of 1.8 points. Losing the shared suit costs 1.8 points of raw equity. The hand directly above it in the ranking is AQo at 64.4%, and directly below is KQs at 63.4%, so three hands are packed into a band of 1 points.

Played heads-up against each of the other 168 hands, AJo is a favourite against 150 of them and an underdog against 18. Its best matchup is J2o at 77.4% and its worst is AA at 7.6% — a spread of 69.8 points, which is why calling AJo simply "strong" or "weak" says very little.

AJo dominates 8 hands that share one of its ranks, pushing hardest against J2o at 77.4%. It is dominated by 4 hands in return, the worst of them AKs, which leaves AJo with only 24.7%. 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 3 of 78. The strongest hand in that group, AKo, is 1.8 points away, and the weakest, 32o, sits 31.3 points below. Measured against the average equity of all 169 hands, 51%, AJo lands +12.6 points from the middle of the pack, and 14 hands in the full ranking are still ahead of it.

Adding players costs equity steadily: 63.6% against one opponent, 45.4% against two, 28.7% 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 8 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 AJo reads as 63.6% 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.