Q2s

Q2s (queen-deuce suited) wins 50.1% of the time against a single random opponent, which places it 89th out of the 169 starting hands — the top 52.7% of the range. At a six-handed table (five opponents) its equity falls to 16.9% and its rank moves to 82; nine-handed (eight opponents) it holds 11.9% for rank 79. A suited hand — the flush adds a few points of raw equity.

Its suited/offsuit twin Q2o runs at 47.3% (rank 105), a gap of 2.8 points. Sharing a suit is worth exactly those 2.8 points here — nothing about the ranks changes. The hand directly above it in the ranking is 22 at 50.2%, and directly below is J5s at 50.0%, so three hands are packed into a band of 0.2 points.

Played heads-up against each of the other 168 hands, Q2s is a favourite against 91 of them and an underdog against 77. Its best matchup is J2o at 75.9% and its worst is QQ at 11.1% — a spread of 64.8 points, which is why calling Q2s simply "strong" or "weak" says very little. 2 opponents land inside one point of a coinflip, the closest being Q3o at 49.7%.

Q2s dominates 8 hands that share one of its ranks, pushing hardest against J2o at 75.9%. It is dominated by 8 hands in return, the worst of them AQs, which leaves Q2s with only 26.1%. 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 42 of 78. The strongest hand in that group, AKs, is 17.1 points away, and the weakest, 32s, sits 14.2 points below. Measured against the average equity of all 169 hands, 51%, Q2s lands -0.9 points from the middle of the pack, and 88 hands in the full ranking are still ahead of it.

Adding players costs equity steadily: 50.1% against one opponent, 32.5% against two, 19.9% against four and 11.9% against eight. That last figure is 107% of an even nine-way share (11.1%). The Chen formula scores this hand at 4 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 Q2s reads as 50.1% 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.