J2o
Jack-2 offsuit
- Rank
- 123of 169
- Equity vs random
- 44.2%
- Combinations
- 12
- Better than
- 30.2%
J2o ranks 123 out of the 169 starting hands in Hold'em. Against a random hand it wins 44.2% of the time, which puts it ahead of 30.2% of all possible deals once the deck is sorted by that equity. It comes with 12 of the 1,326 possible combinations — 0.9% 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.
No suit, no connection, no high card to carry a pot: this is the part of the deck you fold. Against the button range — the widest at the table — it has 33.1%. No line fixes a hand like this; the money you save folding it is the money you win.
What this hand makes
You pair one of your two cards on 32.4% of flops. Going to the river every time, the hand ends up as pair 46.0% of the time and stays high card 19.7%.
Where it ends up if you see all five cards
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 | 25.4% |
| MP opening range | 66+, A9s+, KTs+, QJs, ATo+, KQo | 26.6% |
| Cutoff opening range | 22+, A4s+, K9s+, Q9s+, J9s+, T9s, 98s, A9o+, KTo+, QTo+, JTo | 29.3% |
| Button opening range | 22+, A2s+, K5s+, Q7s+, J8s+, T8s+, 97s+, 86s+, 75s+, 65s, 54s, A2o+, K9o+, Q9o+, J9o+, T9o | 33.1% |
| Big blind 3-bet range | TT+, AQs+, A5s-A4s, AKo | 23.3% |
| Big blind calling range | 22-99, A2s-AJs, KTs+, QTs+, J9s+, T8s+, 97s+, 86s+, 76s, 65s, ATo+, KJo+, QJo | 32.9% |
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
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.