K9o

K9o (king-nine offsuit) wins 57.8% of the time against a single random opponent, which places it 40th out of the 169 starting hands — the top 23.7% of the range. At a six-handed table (five opponents) its equity falls to 19.6% and its rank moves to 51; nine-handed (eight opponents) it holds 12.4% for rank 71. Two unconnected offsuit cards — the class of hand most often overvalued.

Its suited/offsuit twin K9s runs at 59.9% (rank 30), a gap of 2.1 points. Losing the shared suit costs 2.1 points of raw equity. The hand directly above it in the ranking is QJo at 58.0%, and directly below is Q9s at 57.7%, so three hands are packed into a band of 0.3 points.

Played heads-up against each of the other 168 hands, K9o is a favourite against 124 of them and an underdog against 44. Its best matchup is 92o at 76.2% and its worst is KK at 7.6% — a spread of 68.6 points, which is why calling K9o simply "strong" or "weak" says very little.

K9o dominates 8 hands that share one of its ranks, pushing hardest against 92o at 76.2%. It is dominated by 8 hands in return, the worst of them AKs, which leaves K9o with only 22.8%. 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 12 of 78. The strongest hand in that group, AKo, is 7.6 points away, and the weakest, 32o, sits 25.5 points below. Measured against the average equity of all 169 hands, 51%, K9o lands +6.8 points from the middle of the pack, and 39 hands in the full ranking are still ahead of it.

Adding players costs equity steadily: 57.8% against one opponent, 39.6% against two, 23.5% against four and 12.4% against eight. That last figure is 112% of an even nine-way share (11.1%). The Chen formula scores this hand at 4 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 K9o reads as 57.8% 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.