7♠4♠

74s

7-4 suited

Rank
134of 169
Equity vs random
41.7%
Combinations
4
Better than
23.8%

74s ranks 134 out of the 169 starting hands in Hold'em. Against a random hand it wins 41.7% of the time, which puts it ahead of 23.8% 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.

A gap costs straights. Same idea as the connector — draws, not high card — with fewer ways to complete them, which is why it lives on the edge of the button opening range. Against that button range it has 36.3%. With a gap, be pickier: position always, and ideally with stacks left to get paid on the draw.

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. An open-ended straight draw shows up on 4.7% of flops. Going to the river every time, the hand ends up as pair 42.1% of the time and stays high card 17.0%.

You pair a card 32.4%
Flush draw 10.9%
Flopped flush 0.84%
Open-ended straight draw 4.7%
Gutshot straight draw 13.4%

Where it ends up if you see all five cards

High card 17.0%
Pair 42.1%
Two pair 22.0%
Three of a kind 4.3%
Straight 5.7%
Flush 6.5%
Full house 2.2%
Four of a kind 0.13%
Straight flush 0.11%

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 30.4%
MP opening range 66+, A9s+, KTs+, QJs, ATo+, KQo 31.7%
Cutoff opening range 22+, A4s+, K9s+, Q9s+, J9s+, T9s, 98s, A9o+, KTo+, QTo+, JTo 34.7%
Button opening range 22+, A2s+, K5s+, Q7s+, J8s+, T8s+, 97s+, 86s+, 75s+, 65s, 54s, A2o+, K9o+, Q9o+, J9o+, T9o 36.3%
Big blind 3-bet range TT+, AQs+, A5s-A4s, AKo 27.6%
Big blind calling range 22-99, A2s-AJs, KTs+, QTs+, J9s+, T8s+, 97s+, 86s+, 76s, 65s, ATo+, KJo+, QJo 36.7%

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

74s against AA 19.9% behind
74s against KK 20.2% behind
74s against QQ 19.8% behind
74s against AKs 37.3% behind
74s against JTs 35.6% behind
74s against 72o 57.6% 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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