J9s

J9s (jack-nine suited) wins 55.7% of the time against a single random opponent, which places it 55th out of the 169 starting hands — the top 32.5% of the range. At a six-handed table (five opponents) its equity falls to 22.0% and its rank moves to 33; nine-handed (eight opponents) it holds 15.8% for rank 29. A suited hand — the flush adds a few points of raw equity.

Its suited/offsuit twin J9o runs at 53.2% (rank 70), a gap of 2.5 points. Sharing a suit is worth exactly those 2.5 points here — nothing about the ranks changes. The hand directly above it in the ranking is K5s at 55.7%, and directly below is Q9o at 55.4%, so three hands are packed into a band of 0.3 points.

Played heads-up against each of the other 168 hands, J9s is a favourite against 92 of them and an underdog against 76. Its best matchup is 92o at 76.5% and its worst is JJ at 16.1% — a spread of 60.4 points, which is why calling J9s simply "strong" or "weak" says very little. 3 opponents land inside one point of a coinflip, the closest being 66 at 50.4%.

J9s dominates 8 hands that share one of its ranks, pushing hardest against 92o at 76.5%. It is dominated by 8 hands in return, the worst of them QJs, which leaves J9s with only 29.6%. 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 26 of 78. The strongest hand in that group, AKs, is 11.5 points away, and the weakest, 32s, sits 19.8 points below. Measured against the average equity of all 169 hands, 51%, J9s lands +4.7 points from the middle of the pack, and 54 hands in the full ranking are still ahead of it.

Adding players costs equity steadily: 55.7% against one opponent, 39.3% against two, 26.0% against four and 15.8% against eight. That last figure is 142% of an even nine-way share (11.1%). The Chen formula scores this hand at 8 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 J9s reads as 55.7% 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.