Q8s

Q8s (queen-eight suited) wins 56.0% of the time against a single random opponent, which places it 51th out of the 169 starting hands — the top 30.2% of the range. At a six-handed table (five opponents) its equity falls to 20.7% and its rank moves to 42; nine-handed (eight opponents) it holds 14.3% for rank 44. A suited hand — the flush adds a few points of raw equity.

Its suited/offsuit twin Q8o runs at 53.7% (rank 66), a gap of 2.3 points. Sharing a suit is worth exactly those 2.3 points here — nothing about the ranks changes. The hand directly above it in the ranking is A4o at 56.8%, and directly below is K8o at 56.0%, so three hands are packed into a band of 0.8 points.

Played heads-up against each of the other 168 hands, Q8s is a favourite against 105 of them and an underdog against 63. Its best matchup is 82o at 76.6% and its worst is QQ at 13.0% — a spread of 63.6 points, which is why calling Q8s simply "strong" or "weak" says very little. 3 opponents land inside one point of a coinflip, the closest being 33 at 50.3%.

Q8s dominates 8 hands that share one of its ranks, pushing hardest against 82o at 76.6%. It is dominated by 8 hands in return, the worst of them KQs, which leaves Q8s with only 27.6%. 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 24 of 78. The strongest hand in that group, AKs, is 11.2 points away, and the weakest, 32s, sits 20.1 points below. Measured against the average equity of all 169 hands, 51%, Q8s lands +5 points from the middle of the pack, and 50 hands in the full ranking are still ahead of it.

Adding players costs equity steadily: 56.0% against one opponent, 38.6% against two, 24.6% against four and 14.3% against eight. That last figure is 129% of an even nine-way share (11.1%). The Chen formula scores this hand at 5 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 Q8s reads as 56.0% 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.