Q9s

Q9s (queen-nine suited) wins 57.7% of the time against a single random opponent, which places it 41th out of the 169 starting hands — the top 24.3% of the range. At a six-handed table (five opponents) its equity falls to 22.6% and its rank moves to 28; nine-handed (eight opponents) it holds 15.8% for rank 27. A suited hand — the flush adds a few points of raw equity.

Its suited/offsuit twin Q9o runs at 55.4% (rank 56), 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 K9o at 57.8%, and directly below is A5o at 57.7%, so three hands are packed into a band of 0.1 points.

Played heads-up against each of the other 168 hands, Q9s is a favourite against 108 of them and an underdog against 60. Its best matchup is 92o at 76.8% and its worst is QQ at 14.5% — a spread of 62.3 points, which is why calling Q9s simply "strong" or "weak" says very little. 3 opponents land inside one point of a coinflip, the closest being 44 at 50.3%.

Q9s dominates 8 hands that share one of its ranks, pushing hardest against 92o at 76.8%. It is dominated by 8 hands in return, the worst of them AQs, which leaves Q9s with only 28.5%. 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 19 of 78. The strongest hand in that group, AKs, is 9.5 points away, and the weakest, 32s, sits 21.8 points below. Measured against the average equity of all 169 hands, 51%, Q9s lands +6.7 points from the middle of the pack, and 40 hands in the full ranking are still ahead of it.

Adding players costs equity steadily: 57.7% against one opponent, 40.5% against two, 26.5% 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 0.3% 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 Q9s reads as 57.7% 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.