The 169 starting hands in Hold’em

Two cards from a 52-card deck give 1,326 possible deals but only 169 distinct hands: what matters is the pair of ranks and whether they share a suit. Here they all are, sorted by their equity against a random hand.

AA AKs AQs AJs ATs A9s A8s A7s A6s A5s A4s A3s A2s AKo KK KQs KJs KTs K9s K8s K7s K6s K5s K4s K3s K2s AQo KQo QQ QJs QTs Q9s Q8s Q7s Q6s Q5s Q4s Q3s Q2s AJo KJo QJo JJ JTs J9s J8s J7s J6s J5s J4s J3s J2s ATo KTo QTo JTo TT T9s T8s T7s T6s T5s T4s T3s T2s A9o K9o Q9o J9o T9o 99 98s 97s 96s 95s 94s 93s 92s A8o K8o Q8o J8o T8o 98o 88 87s 86s 85s 84s 83s 82s A7o K7o Q7o J7o T7o 97o 87o 77 76s 75s 74s 73s 72s A6o K6o Q6o J6o T6o 96o 86o 76o 66 65s 64s 63s 62s A5o K5o Q5o J5o T5o 95o 85o 75o 65o 55 54s 53s 52s A4o K4o Q4o J4o T4o 94o 84o 74o 64o 54o 44 43s 42s A3o K3o Q3o J3o T3o 93o 83o 73o 63o 53o 43o 33 32s A2o K2o Q2o J2o T2o 92o 82o 72o 62o 52o 42o 32o 22

The familiar grid: pairs on the diagonal, suited hands above the diagonal, offsuit below. Colour marks how high each hand sits in the ranking. Click any of them for its full page.

The top 20

#	Hand	Equity vs random	Opens from
1	AA	85.2%	UTG+
2	KK	82.5%	UTG+
3	QQ	79.9%	UTG+
4	JJ	77.4%	UTG+
5	TT	74.9%	UTG+
6	99	71.7%	UTG+
7	88	68.9%	UTG+
8	AKs	66.8%	UTG+
9	AQs	66.0%	UTG+
10	77	66.0%	UTG+
11	AJs	65.2%	UTG+
12	AKo	65.1%	UTG+
13	ATs	64.3%	UTG+
14	AQo	64.2%	UTG+
15	AJo	63.4%	UTG+
16	KQs	63.2%	UTG+
17	66	62.9%	MP+
18	KJs	62.5%	MP+
19	ATo	62.5%	MP+
20	A9s	62.4%	MP+

How these numbers are computed

Equity against a random hand comes from a 60,000-hand Monte Carlo per class with a fixed seed; equity against a range, from a 120,000-hand run. The hand-versus-hand matchups on each page are not estimated at all: all 1,712,304 possible boards are enumerated. It is the same engine that grades the trainer, and the numbers are frozen in the repository so they do not drift between visits.

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