--- schema: poketpoker.hand/1 id: 4c4s class: 44 class_rank: 48 class_of: 169 percentile: 0.2383 combos_in_class: 6 equivalent_ids: [4c4d, 4c4h, 4d4h, 4d4s, 4h4s] suited: false paired: true flush_suits: [clubs, spades] headline: { win: 56.22, tie: 1.53, equity: 56.98 } engine: { name: poker-engine, version: 1.9.0 } canonical_url: https://poketpoker.com/hands/4c4s.md paid_record: https://poketpoker.com/api/hands/4c4s price_usd: 0.01 license: CC-BY-4.0 --- # 4c4s — pocket fours (clubs and spades) **Open-raise from the middle onward; fold it in earlier seats.** 4c4s ranks 48 of the 169 distinct starting hands (top 23.8%). Against one random hand it wins 56.22% of showdowns and takes 56.98% of the pot. ## What this hand is Pocket fours (clubs and spades). Before any board card is dealt its odds are identical to 4c4d, 4c4h, 4d4h, 4d4s, 4h4s — suits are interchangeable pre-flop, so all 6 combinations in class 44 share the numbers below. That stops being true the moment the board has suits, which is what the paid record covers. ## Equity against random opponents | Opponents | Win % | Tie % | Pot equity % | | --------- | ----- | ----- | ------------ | | 1 | 56.22 | 1.53 | 56.98 | | 2 | 36.27 | 1.05 | 36.67 | | 3 | 26.05 | 0.91 | 26.37 | | 4 | 20.22 | 0.81 | 20.50 | | 5 | 17.01 | 0.74 | 17.27 | | 6 | 15.02 | 0.72 | 15.29 | | 7 | 13.53 | 0.69 | 13.79 | Monte Carlo, 400,000 trials per row, seed 1 — same seed, same digits. "Pot equity" counts outright wins plus a share of split pots, which is the number to compare against pot odds. ## Head-to-head, exact Against the opponent's whole hand class, not one chosen pair of cards: every combination of it you do not block, each enumerated over all 1,712,304 boards. No sampling. "Combos" is how many were averaged. | Against | Hero pot equity % | Hero win % | Split % | Combos | | ------- | ----------------- | ---------- | ------- | ------ | | AA | 18.67 | 18.45 | 0.45 | 6 | | KK | 19.08 | 18.85 | 0.45 | 6 | | QQ | 19.04 | 18.82 | 0.44 | 6 | | JJ | 19.02 | 18.79 | 0.45 | 6 | | TT | 19.02 | 18.76 | 0.52 | 6 | | 77 | 18.72 | 18.01 | 1.41 | 6 | | 22 | 81.06 | 79.18 | 3.77 | 6 | | AKs | 51.41 | 51.15 | 0.53 | 4 | | AKo | 54.03 | 53.78 | 0.50 | 12 | | AQs | 51.09 | 50.83 | 0.52 | 4 | | JTs | 47.29 | 46.82 | 0.95 | 4 | | 76s | 49.46 | 48.55 | 1.81 | 4 | Averaging matters here. Against a single representative the answer shifts with the suits — J♣T♣ takes 17.77% against Q♣Q♦ but 18.89% against Q♠Q♦, because the shared club both blocks a flush and removes cards. Averaged over the class the figure is the same whichever suits you hold, which is what makes it quotable. ## What this page cannot tell you Pre-flop equity is not a strategy. It ignores stack depth, bet sizing, and how your opponents actually play. The verdict above is a conventional opening chart, not solver output. Equity against a random hand is also not equity against a range: an opponent who raises has better than random cards, and this page does not model that. ## The full record Equity against modelled ranges (top 5/10/20/40%), position-by-position guidance, and the suit-specific analysis for this exact combination: GET https://poketpoker.com/api/hands/4c4s $0.01 USDC (x402) ## Related - Suit-equivalents: [4c4d](4c4d.md) · [4c4h](4c4h.md) · [4d4h](4d4h.md) · [4d4s](4d4s.md) · [4h4s](4h4s.md) - All 1,326 hands: [index](index.md) - URL convention: `/hands/.md`, higher rank first, suits ordered c, d, h, s. So `2d2s`, never `2s2d` — any hand can be addressed directly, without consulting the index. - Licence: CC-BY-4.0 — reuse freely with attribution to https://poketpoker.com.