KJo

KJo (king-jack offsuit) wins 60.5% of the time against a single random opponent, which places it 26th out of the 169 starting hands — the top 15.4% of the range. At a six-handed table (five opponents) its equity falls to 23.7% and its rank moves to 23; nine-handed (eight opponents) it holds 15.8% for rank 28. Two unconnected offsuit cards — the class of hand most often overvalued.

Its suited/offsuit twin KJs runs at 62.5% (rank 20), a gap of 2 points. Losing the shared suit costs 2 points of raw equity. The hand directly above it in the ranking is A9o at 60.8%, and directly below is 55 at 60.3%, so three hands are packed into a band of 0.5 points.

Played heads-up against each of the other 168 hands, KJo is a favourite against 128 of them and an underdog against 40. Its best matchup is J2o at 76.8% and its worst is KK at 9.2% — a spread of 67.6 points, which is why calling KJo simply "strong" or "weak" says very little. 1 opponents land inside one point of a coinflip, the closest being 22 at 49.1%.

KJo dominates 8 hands that share one of its ranks, pushing hardest against J2o at 76.8%. It is dominated by 6 hands in return, the worst of them AJs, which leaves KJo with only 24.4%. 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 7 of 78. The strongest hand in that group, AKo, is 4.9 points away, and the weakest, 32o, sits 28.2 points below. Measured against the average equity of all 169 hands, 51%, KJo lands +9.5 points from the middle of the pack, and 25 hands in the full ranking are still ahead of it.

Adding players costs equity steadily: 60.5% against one opponent, 43.2% against two, 27.9% 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 7 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 KJo reads as 60.5% 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.

KJo 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) 25.1%. By the river it has made a pair or better 48.7% of the time.

For straights, the flop completes one 0.653% of the time (128 flops), gives an eight-out draw 3.67% and a four-out gutshot 12.7%. By the river a straight using a hole card completes 5.20% of the time.

Put together, KJo flops a pair or better or a strong draw (an eight-out straight draw) 36.3% of the time — rank 105 of the 156 unpaired hands (tied with 1 other). The highest is JTs, T9s, 98s and 4 others at 50.6% and the lowest AKo, A2o at 32.8%.

Against one random hand, KJo goes from 60.6% before the flop up to 82.2% when either card pairs, and down to 50.2% when both miss. It connects 32.4% of the time (6,356 of 19,600 flops). Missing with a card above K on board leaves 54.9%; missing with nothing above K leaves 48.6%.

By board shape: rainbow 61.1%, two-tone 60.3%, monotone 59.5%. A monotone flop in one of your suits gives 69.1%. A paired board gives 61.0%, and a connected board (three ranks within five) 54.6%. The best row in the table is "Either card hits (a matching rank on the flop)" at 82.2%, the worst "and nothing above K" at 48.6%.

The 60.5% 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 60.57% (a gap of 0.07 points). Each equity is taken with the flop out and the turn and river still to come.