Poker Starting Hands: All 169, Ranked

There are 1,326 ways to be dealt two cards, and they fall into 169 starting hands: 13 pocket pairs, 78 suited hands and 78 offsuit hands. A pair can be dealt 6 ways, a suited hand 4 and an offsuit hand 12.

Pocket aces. Against one random hand, all in before the flop, they take 85.2% of the pot, a split counted as half (they win 84.9% and tie 0.5%).

Against one random hand, three-two offsuit (32o): 32.3% of the pot. Seven-two offsuit, often called the worst, is number 165 of 169 by the same measure.

13 pairs of 6 deals each, 78 of the 1,326 deals: 5.9% of hands, about 1 in 17.

A little. Ace-king suited takes 67.0% of the pot against one random hand, ace-king offsuit 65.3%.