K5o

K5o (king-five offsuit) wins 53.2% of the time against a single random opponent, which places it 71th out of the 169 starting hands — the top 42% of the range. At a six-handed table (five opponents) its equity falls to 15.3% and its rank moves to 104; nine-handed (eight opponents) it holds 9.6% for rank 122. Two unconnected offsuit cards — the class of hand most often overvalued.

Its suited/offsuit twin K5s runs at 55.7% (rank 54), a gap of 2.5 points. Losing the shared suit costs 2.5 points of raw equity. The hand directly above it in the ranking is J9o at 53.2%, and directly below is Q5s at 52.8%, so three hands are packed into a band of 0.4 points.

Played heads-up against each of the other 168 hands, K5o is a favourite against 116 of them and an underdog against 52. Its best matchup is Q5o at 74.8% and its worst is KK at 6.8% — a spread of 68 points, which is why calling K5o simply "strong" or "weak" says very little.

K5o dominates 8 hands that share one of its ranks, pushing hardest against Q5o at 74.8%. It is dominated by 8 hands in return, the worst of them AKs, which leaves K5o with only 23.0%. 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 26 of 78. The strongest hand in that group, AKo, is 12.2 points away, and the weakest, 32o, sits 20.9 points below. Measured against the average equity of all 169 hands, 51%, K5o lands +2.2 points from the middle of the pack, and 70 hands in the full ranking are still ahead of it.

Adding players costs equity steadily: 53.2% against one opponent, 34.1% against two, 18.6% against four and 9.6% against eight. That last figure is 86% of an even nine-way share (11.1%). The Chen formula scores this hand at 3 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 K5o reads as 53.2% 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.