J7o

J7o (jack-seven offsuit) wins 49.7% of the time against a single random opponent, which places it 92th out of the 169 starting hands — the top 54.4% of the range. At a six-handed table (five opponents) its equity falls to 15.0% and its rank moves to 110; nine-handed (eight opponents) it holds 9.4% for rank 125. Two unconnected offsuit cards — the class of hand most often overvalued.

Its suited/offsuit twin J7s runs at 52.4% (rank 73), a gap of 2.7 points. Losing the shared suit costs 2.7 points of raw equity. The hand directly above it in the ranking is T8o at 49.8%, and directly below is J4s at 49.2%, so three hands are packed into a band of 0.6 points.

Played heads-up against each of the other 168 hands, J7o is a favourite against 82 of them and an underdog against 86. Its best matchup is 72o at 75.4% and its worst is JJ at 8.2% — a spread of 67.2 points, which is why calling J7o simply "strong" or "weak" says very little.

J7o dominates 8 hands that share one of its ranks, pushing hardest against 72o at 75.4%. It is dominated by 8 hands in return, the worst of them QJs, which leaves J7o with only 23.5%. 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 offsuit hands it comes 36 of 78. The strongest hand in that group, AKo, is 15.7 points away, and the weakest, 32o, sits 17.4 points below. Measured against the average equity of all 169 hands, 51%, J7o lands -1.3 points from the middle of the pack, and 91 hands in the full ranking are still ahead of it.

Adding players costs equity steadily: 49.7% against one opponent, 31.7% against two, 18.2% against four and 9.4% against eight. That last figure is 85% of an even nine-way share (11.1%). The Chen formula scores this hand at 2 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 J7o reads as 49.7% 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.

J7o 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) 14.0%. By the river it has made a pair or better 48.7% of the time.

For straights, the flop completes one 0.327% of the time (64 flops), gives an eight-out draw 2.29% and a four-out gutshot 12.0%. By the river a straight using a hole card completes 4.64% of the time.

Put together, J7o flops a pair or better or a strong draw (an eight-out straight draw) 35.0% of the time — rank 111 of the 156 unpaired hands (tied with 4 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, J7o goes from 49.7% before the flop up to 72.5% when either card pairs, and down to 38.7% when both miss. It connects 32.4% of the time (6,356 of 19,600 flops). Missing with a card above J on board leaves 39.1%; missing with nothing above J leaves 38.2%.

By board shape: rainbow 49.9%, two-tone 49.5%, monotone 50.3%. A monotone flop in one of your suits gives 59.2%. A paired board gives 48.8%, and a connected board (three ranks within five) 51.7%. The best row in the table is "Either card hits (a matching rank on the flop)" at 72.5%, the worst "and nothing above J" at 38.2%.

The 49.7% 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 49.68% (a gap of 0.02 points). Each equity is taken with the flop out and the turn and river still to come.