Nine-eight suited has 50.8% against a random hand, the 83rd best of the 169 starting hands. Below are its odds against every hand and on the flop, and what the charts do with it from each seat.
98s ranks 83rd of the 169 starting hands by against a random hand, in the top 49% of hand classes. Classes have different numbers of card combinations; this is not a deal-frequency percentile. First in at 100bb, the charts say: raise from the cutoff, the button and the small blind; fold from under the gun; raise 85% and fold 15% from middle position.
Against one random hand, 98s has and 98o has 48.10%: 2.70 percentage points more for 98s.
against one to eight random opponents
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━ 98s: 50.80%
┄ 98o: 48.10%
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Equity by number of random opponents
Opponents
98s
98o
1
50.80%
48.10%
2
35.93%
32.85%
3
28.54%
25.00%
4
23.58%
20.00%
5
20.27%
16.91%
6
17.95%
14.16%
7
16.07%
12.30%
8
14.33%
10.90%
The one-opponent values are exact. Two to eight opponents use 100,000 seeded deals per point; small differences can be sampling noise. All opponents have random hands. These curves do not measure profit or account for position, betting or opponents folding.
98s versus 98o: what suited changes
Against a random hand, 98s has 50.80% and 98o has 48.10%: a 2.70 percentage-point advantage for 98s. This is showdown equity, not a prediction of profit.
Exact flop probabilities for suited and offsuit starting hands
All 19,600 flops are counted. A flush draw has four cards of one suit, uses at least one hole card, and has not already made a flush or better. The flush column excludes straight flushes.
98s on the flop
The best five-card hand 98s holds after the flop, over all 19,600 flops. Pairs on the board count.
High card51.7%
One pair40.4%
Two pair4.0%
Three of a kind1.6%
Straight1.3%
Flush0.8%
Full house0.1%
Four of a kind0.0%
Straight flush0.0%
Draws on the flop, counted only when the hand has not already made that straight or flush or better.
Flush draw10.9%
Open-ended straight draw9.6%
Gutshot16.6%
How to play 98s
Suited cards close in rank make straights and flushes more often than other unpaired hands, and seldom make a strong one pair.
First in
Raise from the cutoff, the button and the small blind; fold from under the gun; raise 85% and fold 15% from middle position.
Facing a raise
Call from the big blind; fold from middle position, the cutoff, the button and the small blind.
Facing a 3-bet
Call from the button; fold 85% and call 15% from under the gun; call 60% and fold 40% from middle position; call 65% and fold 35% from the cutoff; call 85% and fold 15% from the big blind.
From the six-handed 100bb charts. A percentage means the chart mixes actions with this hand.
Six-handed cash charts at 100 big blinds. A spot marked mix plays 98s more than one way.
Where these numbers come from
Heads-up equity comes from the same preflop table the odds calculator uses, which averages each pair of hands over every board and suit pattern. Against a random hand, your own two cards make some hands less likely: holding an ace leaves three aces for the other player, so each hand counts once for every way it can still be dealt. Equity against several players is sampled with a fixed seed, so it can move by a few tenths of a point from the exact figure. The flop figures count every one of the 19,600 flops.
