KQs

KQs (king-queen suited) wins 63.4% of the time against a single random opponent, which places it 16th out of the 169 starting hands — the top 9.5% of the range. At a six-handed table (five opponents) its equity falls to 28.4% and its rank moves to 8; nine-handed (eight opponents) it holds 20.4% for rank 7. A suited connector — straight and flush draws in the same holding.

Its suited/offsuit twin KQo runs at 61.5% (rank 23), a gap of 1.9 points. Sharing a suit is worth exactly those 1.9 points here — nothing about the ranks changes. The hand directly above it in the ranking is AJo at 63.6%, and directly below is 66 at 63.3%, so three hands are packed into a band of 0.3 points.

Played heads-up against each of the other 168 hands, KQs is a favourite against 133 of them and an underdog against 35. Its best matchup is Q2o at 77.8% and its worst is KK at 13.9% — a spread of 63.9 points, which is why calling KQs simply "strong" or "weak" says very little. 4 opponents land inside one point of a coinflip, the closest being 44 at 49.9%.

KQs dominates 8 hands that share one of its ranks, pushing hardest against Q2o at 77.8%. It is dominated by 4 hands in return, the worst of them AKs, which leaves KQs with only 28.6%. 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 5 of 78. The strongest hand in that group, AKs, is 3.8 points away, and the weakest, 32s, sits 27.5 points below. Measured against the average equity of all 169 hands, 51%, KQs lands +12.4 points from the middle of the pack, and 15 hands in the full ranking are still ahead of it.

Adding players costs equity steadily: 63.4% against one opponent, 47.2% against two, 32.3% against four and 20.4% against eight. That last figure is 184% of an even nine-way share (11.1%). The Chen formula scores this hand at 10 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 KQs reads as 63.4% 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.