Is my hand any good?
Pick your two cards and how many people are at the table. You’ll get the real preflop win odds instantly — no spinner, because every answer here was simulated in advance.
AK suited vs. 6 players
One of the strongest hands you can be dealt.
A random hand wins about 16.7% here, so this is 1.8× a coin-flip share of the pot. Based on 100,000 simulated hands.
Colored relative to the strongest/weakest hand at 6 players (not an absolute scale). Diagonal = pairs, above = suited, below = offsuit.
What these percentages are, and what they are not
Every figure here is the chance your two cards are the best hand at showdown, with all five board cards dealt and nobody folding. That is the honest way to compare starting hands, because it strips out everything that is not the cards: no position, no betting, no reads, no opponent who would have folded to a raise.
It also means these are not your odds of winning the pot. Real hands end early, and most pots are won by somebody betting rather than by somebody showing down the best cards. Read this page as a ranking of raw material, then use the positional simulator for what happens once you add seats and betting to it.
Fair share is the number to compare against
A win percentage means nothing without knowing how many people you are up against. At 6 players, every seat’s fair share of the pot is 16.7% — that is what a hand would be worth if all cards were equal. Anything above that is a hand with an edge; anything below it is a hand paying for the privilege.
By that measure, only 67 of the 169 starting hands clear fair share at this table size, and the median hand sits at 15.5%. Most of the grid is below water. That is the single most useful thing on this page: the default state of a poker hand is “not worth playing”, and folding is not caution, it is arithmetic.
Why even the best hand collapses
Pocket AA is the strongest holding at every table size, and it still loses most of its power as seats fill up: from 84.9% heads-up down to 34.5% nine-handed, a factor of 2.5. Each extra opponent is another chance for the board to favour somebody else, and no pair is immune to that.
The weakest hand at this table size, 72 offsuit, wins 7.7%, a spread of 41.5 points between the best hand and the worst. That spread is widest heads-up and shrinks as seats are added: nine-handed everybody is mostly losing, and the question stops being which hand wins and becomes which hand loses least often.
How these numbers were produced
Monte Carlo, not a formula. Each hand class is simulated against random opponents played to showdown — 100,000 trials for the hand currently selected. There is no closed form for “my two cards against eight unknown hands and five community cards”, which is why simulation is the right tool rather than a shortcut.
Simulation means sampling error, so treat the first decimal place as solid and the second as noise. The figures are anchored to published references where any exist — pocket aces around 85% heads-up, seven-deuce offsuit around 32% — and those anchors are re-checked on every regeneration. The data page lists what each dataset was checked against.