Preflop Chart
Computed from position and starting-hand rank. Choose your seat and the chance of holding the strongest hand.
Highlighting hands with at least a 50% chance of outranking all 8 hands still to act.
17 starting-hand classes · 8.3% of combinations.
Tap a hand for its chance, showdown equity and standard error.
Green cells meet the chosen chance. Cream cells fall below it. s = suited, o = offsuit; pairs run down the diagonal.
How this preflop chart is computed
The engine ranks all 169 starting-hand classes by their equity against one random hand. These ranks use the same 1,000,000-deal estimates as the homepage matrix. A class with higher heads-up equity ranks above a class with lower equity.
Each pair has six card combinations, each suited class has four and each offsuit class has twelve. Together they make 1,326 combinations. For your hand, the chart counts the combinations in strictly lower-ranked classes. Dividing that count by the total gives w, the share of combinations your class outranks.
With N players still to act, the chance of outranking every one of their hands is w raised to the power N. This model treats those hands as independent draws from the full set of combinations. Equal-ranked classes stay outside the lower-ranked set.
The default highlights hands whose computed chance reaches 50%. Raise the chosen chance for a smaller set of stronger classes, or lower it to include more hands. Every cell shows the chance at your selected position.
Read the chart for your seat
The chart covers the eight seats that can open the betting at a nine-player table: UTG through cutoff, button and small blind. UTG has eight players still to act; the small blind has one. The big blind closes the preflop action.
What matters is the number of players still to act, so a six-player UTG reads the same as LJ here. Use the position diagram to find your seat and the action order at other table sizes.
Tap a class to see its chance of outranking the remaining hands, plus its showdown equity against that many random opponents. The equity comes from 250,000 sampled deals per class; the detail also shows its measured standard error in percentage points. Equity includes each share of a tied pot.
The displayed chance compares starting-hand rank. The equity figure describes the pot share after all five board cards are dealt. Bet size, stack depth and opponents’ choices also shape an opening decision. Enter specific cards in the equity calculator to explore a matchup.
AKs means ace-king of one suit, while AKo means different suits. Pairs occupy the diagonal. All thirteen columns fit on a phone; tapping a compact cell opens its full figures below the chart.