7♠3♠

73s

7-3 suited

Rank
145of 169
Equity vs random
39.8%
Combinations
4
Better than
16.9%

73s ranks 145 out of the 169 starting hands in Hold'em. Against a random hand it wins 39.8% of the time, which puts it ahead of 16.9% of all possible deals once the deck is sorted by that equity. It comes with 4 of the 1,326 possible combinations — 0.3% 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.

Here the suit is the only thing on offer, and it is not enough. You make a flush about 6 times in 100, and when you do there are too many hands holding a higher one. Its 34.7% against the button range shows why it misses nearly every chart: you are paying for a high card that does not play and a draw that rarely arrives.

What this hand makes

You pair one of your two cards on 32.4% of flops. You flop a flush draw 10.9% of the time and a made flush 0.84%; seeing all five cards, you end up with a flush 6.5% of the time. Going to the river every time, the hand ends up as pair 42.9% of the time and stays high card 17.6%.

You pair a card 32.4%
Flush draw 10.9%
Flopped flush 0.84%
Open-ended straight draw 1.96%
Gutshot straight draw 11.3%

Where it ends up if you see all five cards

High card 17.6%
Pair 42.9%
Two pair 22.1%
Three of a kind 4.3%
Straight 4.1%
Flush 6.5%
Full house 2.2%
Four of a kind 0.13%
Straight flush 0.06%

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 29.1%
MP opening range 66+, A9s+, KTs+, QJs, ATo+, KQo 30.3%
Cutoff opening range 22+, A4s+, K9s+, Q9s+, J9s+, T9s, 98s, A9o+, KTo+, QTo+, JTo 33.1%
Button opening range 22+, A2s+, K5s+, Q7s+, J8s+, T8s+, 97s+, 86s+, 75s+, 65s, 54s, A2o+, K9o+, Q9o+, J9o+, T9o 34.7%
Big blind 3-bet range TT+, AQs+, A5s-A4s, AKo 26.9%
Big blind calling range 22-99, A2s-AJs, KTs+, QTs+, J9s+, T8s+, 97s+, 86s+, 76s, 65s, ATo+, KJo+, QJo 35.0%

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

73s against AA 18.3% behind
73s against KK 18.6% behind
73s against QQ 18.2% behind
73s against AKs 36.1% behind
73s against JTs 34.4% behind
73s against 72o 56.6% favourite

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.

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