Starting hand explorer
There are 1,326 two-card combinations and 169 kinds of hand. This is all of them: how often you are dealt each, how much of the pot each is worth against random hands, and exact matchups on demand.
Click any hand. Suited above the diagonal, offsuit below, pairs on it.
Shading: brighter green is higher equity. Monte Carlo simulation, seeded xoshiro128**, 500,000 trials per hand, seed 20260901.
Suited
Ace-King suited
Equity against random hands
Multi-way, a hand’s share of the pot falls even when it is the favourite: a fair share against 8 opponents is 11.1%.
Head-to-head, exact
Every one of the 1,712,304 possible boards, enumerated for each matchup.
- vs Pocket aces…
- vs Pocket queens…
- vs Ace-king offsuit…
- vs Pocket sevens…
Why 1,326 and why 169
Two cards from 52: C(52, 2) = 1,326. Suits do not matter before the flop except for whether the two cards match, so those 1,326 collapse into 169 classes: 13 pairs, 78 suited hands, 78 offsuit hands.
Each pair has 6 combinations (C(4, 2)), each suited hand 4, each offsuit hand 12. Any specific unpaired hand — ace-king, say — is 16 combinations, and the chance of being dealt it is 16 ÷ 1,326 = 1.21%. Any pocket pair at all: 78 ÷ 1,326 = 5.88%.
Equity is not a ranking
The shading orders hands by how much of the pot they win against random cards. It says nothing about position, stack sizes, or what your opponents actually play — which is why a hand’s value at the table differs from its raw equity. Notice how the order changes between one opponent and eight: hands that make big hands (suited connectors, small pairs) climb; big unpaired cards fall.
The head-to-head numbers are exact: every possible five-card board is enumerated. Multi-way numbers against random hands are simulated, and the page says so, with the seed.