J5s

J5s (jack-five suited) wins 50.0% of the time against a single random opponent, which places it 90th out of the 169 starting hands — the top 53.3% of the range. At a six-handed table (five opponents) its equity falls to 17.0% and its rank moves to 80; nine-handed (eight opponents) it holds 11.7% for rank 82. A suited hand — the flush adds a few points of raw equity.

Its suited/offsuit twin J5o runs at 47.2% (rank 106), a gap of 2.8 points. Sharing a suit is worth exactly those 2.8 points here — nothing about the ranks changes. The hand directly above it in the ranking is Q2s at 50.1%, and directly below is T8o at 49.8%, so three hands are packed into a band of 0.3 points.

Played heads-up against each of the other 168 hands, J5s is a favourite against 79 of them and an underdog against 89. Its best matchup is T5o at 74.9% and its worst is JJ at 12.7% — a spread of 62.2 points, which is why calling J5s simply "strong" or "weak" says very little. 2 opponents land inside one point of a coinflip, the closest being 22 at 49.9%.

J5s dominates 8 hands that share one of its ranks, pushing hardest against T5o at 74.9%. It is dominated by 8 hands in return, the worst of them AJs, which leaves J5s with only 27.5%. 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 43 of 78. The strongest hand in that group, AKs, is 17.2 points away, and the weakest, 32s, sits 14.1 points below. Measured against the average equity of all 169 hands, 51%, J5s lands -1 points from the middle of the pack, and 89 hands in the full ranking are still ahead of it.

Adding players costs equity steadily: 50.0% against one opponent, 32.6% against two, 20.1% against four and 11.7% against eight. That last figure is 105% of an even nine-way share (11.1%). The Chen formula scores this hand at 3 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 J5s reads as 50.0% 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.