JTs

JTs (jack-ten suited) wins 57.5% of the time against a single random opponent, which places it 46th out of the 169 starting hands — the top 27.2% of the range. At a six-handed table (five opponents) its equity falls to 24.8% and its rank moves to 18; nine-handed (eight opponents) it holds 18.1% for rank 15. A suited connector — straight and flush draws in the same holding.

Its suited/offsuit twin JTo runs at 55.3% (rank 57), a gap of 2.2 points. Sharing a suit is worth exactly those 2.2 points here — nothing about the ranks changes. The hand directly above it in the ranking is A6o at 57.6%, and directly below is QTo at 57.1%, so three hands are packed into a band of 0.5 points.

Played heads-up against each of the other 168 hands, JTs is a favourite against 95 of them and an underdog against 73. Its best matchup is T2o at 77.1% and its worst is JJ at 17.9% — a spread of 59.2 points, which is why calling JTs simply "strong" or "weak" says very little. 5 opponents land inside one point of a coinflip, the closest being 88 at 49.7%.

JTs dominates 8 hands that share one of its ranks, pushing hardest against T2o at 77.1%. It is dominated by 8 hands in return, the worst of them QJs, which leaves JTs 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 22 of 78. The strongest hand in that group, AKs, is 9.7 points away, and the weakest, 32s, sits 21.6 points below. Measured against the average equity of all 169 hands, 51%, JTs lands +6.5 points from the middle of the pack, and 45 hands in the full ranking are still ahead of it.

Adding players costs equity steadily: 57.5% against one opponent, 41.9% against two, 28.5% against four and 18.1% against eight. That last figure is 163% of an even nine-way share (11.1%). The Chen formula scores this hand at 9 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 JTs reads as 57.5% 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.

JTs 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) 18.7%. By the river it has made a pair or better 48.7% of the time.

For straights, the flop completes one 1.31% of the time (256 flops), gives an eight-out draw 9.71% and a four-out gutshot 16.8%. By the river a straight using a hole card completes 9.12% of the time. For flushes, two or more of its suit land on the flop 11.8% of the time (a made flush 0.842%), and a flush is complete by the river 6.40%.

Put together, JTs flops a pair or better or a strong draw (a flush draw or an eight-out straight draw) 50.6% of the time — rank 1 of the 156 unpaired hands (tied with 6 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, JTs goes from 57.5% before the flop up to 78.2% when either card pairs, and down to 47.6% 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 50.3%; missing with nothing above J leaves 43.2%.

By board shape: rainbow 56.9%, two-tone 58.2%, monotone 55.8%. Two of your suit (a flush draw) gives 67.1% (10.9% of flops), and three of your suit (a made flush) 94.8% (0.842%). A paired board gives 55.0%, and a connected board (three ranks within five) 56.2%. The best row in the table is "Three of your suit (made flush)" at 94.8%, the worst "and nothing above J" at 43.2%.

The 57.5% 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 57.53% (a gap of 0.03 points). Each equity is taken with the flop out and the turn and river still to come.