3♠2♠

32s

3-2 suited

Rank
163of 169
Equity vs random
35.9%
Combinations
4
Better than
5.4%

32s ranks 163 out of the 169 starting hands in Hold'em. Against a random hand it wins 35.9% of the time, which puts it ahead of 5.4% of all possible deals once the deck is sorted by that equity. It comes with 4 of the 1,326 possible combinations — 0.3% of the hands you will be dealt.

How to play it before the flop

The fundamentals charts never open it at a 6-max table: it is a preflop fold when the pot is unopened. If the button opens and you are in the big blind, the chart says fold.

Suited connectors almost never win with their high card; they win with the straights and flushes they make now and then. Their 33.4% against the button range understates them, because a hand like this collects its equity in a few very large pots. They need position and deep stacks: without implied odds they are worth less than they look.

What this hand makes

You pair one of your two cards on 32.4% of flops. You flop a flush draw 10.9% of the time and a made flush 0.84%; seeing all five cards, you end up with a flush 6.5% of the time. An open-ended straight draw shows up on 3.0% of flops. Going to the river every time, the hand ends up as pair 42.5% of the time and stays high card 17.6%.

You pair a card 32.4%
Flush draw 10.9%
Flopped flush 0.84%
Open-ended straight draw 3.0%
Gutshot straight draw 12.7%

Where it ends up if you see all five cards

High card 17.6%
Pair 42.5%
Two pair 22.0%
Three of a kind 4.3%
Straight 4.7%
Flush 6.5%
Full house 2.2%
Four of a kind 0.13%
Straight flush 0.10%

Exact enumeration, no sampling: the flop events run through all 19,600 possible flops and the final distribution through all 2,118,760 five-card boards. The distribution assumes you always reach the river, so it describes the hand’s potential rather than a real session, where most hands are folded earlier. Open-ended includes double gutshots (two distinct ranks complete it).

Against the reference ranges

Range Notation Your equity
UTG opening range 77+, ATs+, KQs, AJo+, KQo 29.3%
MP opening range 66+, A9s+, KTs+, QJs, ATo+, KQo 30.0%
Cutoff opening range 22+, A4s+, K9s+, Q9s+, J9s+, T9s, 98s, A9o+, KTo+, QTo+, JTo 31.9%
Button opening range 22+, A2s+, K5s+, Q7s+, J8s+, T8s+, 97s+, 86s+, 75s+, 65s, 54s, A2o+, K9o+, Q9o+, J9o+, T9o 33.4%
Big blind 3-bet range TT+, AQs+, A5s-A4s, AKo 26.6%
Big blind calling range 22-99, A2s-AJs, KTs+, QTs+, J9s+, T8s+, 97s+, 86s+, 76s, 65s, ATo+, KJo+, QJo 32.8%

Equity if the hand goes to the river against an opponent holding exactly that range. 120,000-hand Monte Carlo with a fixed seed, computed by our engine.

Hand versus hand

32s against AA 17.6% behind
32s against KK 19.0% behind
32s against QQ 19.0% behind
32s against AKs 36.3% behind
32s against JTs 35.2% behind
32s against 72o 39.0% behind

These are not estimates: they are the exact enumeration of all 1,712,304 possible boards for each matchup. Suited hands are matched up in different suits.

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