J8s

J8s (jack-eight suited) wins 54.0% of the time against a single random opponent, which places it 64th out of the 169 starting hands — the top 37.9% of the range. At a six-handed table (five opponents) its equity falls to 20.4% and its rank moves to 45; nine-handed (eight opponents) it holds 14.5% for rank 40. A suited hand — the flush adds a few points of raw equity.

Its suited/offsuit twin J8o runs at 51.6% (rank 78), a gap of 2.4 points. Sharing a suit is worth exactly those 2.4 points here — nothing about the ranks changes. The hand directly above it in the ranking is K3s at 54.0%, and directly below is T9s at 54.0%, so three hands are packed into a band of 0 points.

Played heads-up against each of the other 168 hands, J8s is a favourite against 88 of them and an underdog against 80. Its best matchup is 83o at 76.2% and its worst is JJ at 14.6% — a spread of 61.6 points, which is why calling J8s simply "strong" or "weak" says very little. 3 opponents land inside one point of a coinflip, the closest being 44 at 50.4%.

J8s dominates 8 hands that share one of its ranks, pushing hardest against 83o at 76.2%. It is dominated by 8 hands in return, the worst of them KJs, which leaves J8s with only 28.7%. 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 suited hands it comes 30 of 78. The strongest hand in that group, AKs, is 13.2 points away, and the weakest, 32s, sits 18.1 points below. Measured against the average equity of all 169 hands, 51%, J8s lands +3 points from the middle of the pack, and 63 hands in the full ranking are still ahead of it.

Adding players costs equity steadily: 54.0% against one opponent, 37.4% against two, 24.0% against four and 14.5% against eight. That last figure is 131% of an even nine-way share (11.1%). The Chen formula scores this hand at 6 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 J8s reads as 54.0% 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.