K♠5♥

K5o

King-5 offsuit

Rank
68of 169
Equity vs random
53.3%
Combinations
12
Better than
63.2%

K5o ranks 68 out of the 169 starting hands in Hold'em. Against a random hand it wins 53.3% of the time, which puts it ahead of 63.2% of all possible deals once the deck is sorted by that equity. It comes with 12 of the 1,326 possible combinations — 0.9% 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.

No suit, no connection, no high card to carry a pot: this is the part of the deck you fold. Against the button range — the widest at the table — it has 39.9%. No line fixes a hand like this; the money you save folding it is the money you win.

What this hand makes

You pair one of your two cards on 32.4% of flops. Going to the river every time, the hand ends up as pair 45.9% of the time and stays high card 19.5%.

You pair a card 32.4%
Open-ended straight draw 1.63%
Gutshot straight draw 5.9%

Where it ends up if you see all five cards

High card 19.5%
Pair 45.9%
Two pair 22.8%
Three of a kind 4.5%
Straight 3.1%
Flush 2.0%
Full house 2.2%
Four of a kind 0.13%
Straight flush 0.02%

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 28.3%
MP opening range 66+, A9s+, KTs+, QJs, ATo+, KQo 29.9%
Cutoff opening range 22+, A4s+, K9s+, Q9s+, J9s+, T9s, 98s, A9o+, KTo+, QTo+, JTo 36.8%
Button opening range 22+, A2s+, K5s+, Q7s+, J8s+, T8s+, 97s+, 86s+, 75s+, 65s, 54s, A2o+, K9o+, Q9o+, J9o+, T9o 39.9%
Big blind 3-bet range TT+, AQs+, A5s-A4s, AKo 24.6%
Big blind calling range 22-99, A2s-AJs, KTs+, QTs+, J9s+, T8s+, 97s+, 86s+, 76s, 65s, ATo+, KJo+, QJo 39.0%

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

K5o against AA 12.8% behind
K5o against KK 7.3% behind
K5o against QQ 28.4% behind
K5o against AKs 22.9% behind
K5o against JTs 50.7% coin flip
K5o against 72o 64.1% 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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