--- schema: poketpoker.hand/1 id: Qc5c class: Q5s class_rank: 72 class_of: 169 percentile: 0.3982 combos_in_class: 4 equivalent_ids: [Qd5d, Qh5h, Qs5s] suited: true paired: false flush_suits: [clubs] headline: { win: 50.55, tie: 4.15, equity: 52.62 } engine: { name: poker-engine, version: 1.9.0 } canonical_url: https://poketpoker.com/hands/Qc5c.md paid_record: https://poketpoker.com/api/hands/Qc5c price_usd: 0.01 license: CC-BY-4.0 --- # Qc5c — queen-five of clubs **Open-raise from button; fold it elsewhere.** Qc5c ranks 72 of the 169 distinct starting hands (top 39.8%). Against one random hand it wins 50.55% of showdowns and takes 52.62% of the pot. ## What this hand is Queen-five of clubs. Before any board card is dealt its odds are identical to Qd5d, Qh5h, Qs5s — suits are interchangeable pre-flop, so all 4 combinations in class Q5s 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 | 50.55 | 4.15 | 52.62 | | 2 | 32.96 | 3.93 | 34.80 | | 3 | 24.64 | 3.55 | 26.26 | | 4 | 19.71 | 3.27 | 21.20 | | 5 | 16.65 | 3.14 | 18.07 | | 6 | 14.37 | 2.96 | 15.71 | | 7 | 12.69 | 2.88 | 13.98 | 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 | 16.65 | 16.44 | 0.41 | 6 | | KK | 16.65 | 16.44 | 0.43 | 6 | | QQ | 12.25 | 11.31 | 1.87 | 3 | | JJ | 31.69 | 31.48 | 0.42 | 6 | | TT | 31.41 | 31.19 | 0.43 | 6 | | 77 | 33.54 | 33.23 | 0.62 | 6 | | 22 | 49.68 | 49.07 | 1.24 | 6 | | AKs | 33.88 | 33.62 | 0.53 | 4 | | AKo | 36.27 | 36.03 | 0.49 | 12 | | AQs | 27.41 | 26.61 | 1.61 | 3 | | JTs | 54.02 | 53.54 | 0.95 | 4 | | 76s | 56.06 | 55.58 | 0.95 | 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/Qc5c $0.01 USDC (x402) ## Related - Suit-equivalents: [Qd5d](Qd5d.md) · [Qh5h](Qh5h.md) · [Qs5s](Qs5s.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.