--- schema: poketpoker.hand/1 id: Qd9d class: Q9s class_rank: 41 class_of: 169 percentile: 0.2459 combos_in_class: 4 equivalent_ids: [Qc9c, Qh9h, Qs9s] suited: true paired: false flush_suits: [diamonds] headline: { win: 56.19, tie: 2.94, equity: 57.66 } engine: { name: poker-engine, version: 1.9.0 } canonical_url: https://poketpoker.com/hands/Qd9d.md paid_record: https://poketpoker.com/api/hands/Qd9d price_usd: 0.01 license: CC-BY-4.0 --- # Qd9d — queen-nine of diamonds **Open-raise from the hijack onward; fold it in earlier seats.** Qd9d ranks 41 of the 169 distinct starting hands (top 24.6%). Against one random hand it wins 56.19% of showdowns and takes 57.66% of the pot. ## What this hand is Queen-nine of diamonds. Before any board card is dealt its odds are identical to Qc9c, Qh9h, Qs9s — suits are interchangeable pre-flop, so all 4 combinations in class Q9s 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 | 56.19 | 2.94 | 57.66 | | 2 | 39.16 | 2.98 | 40.53 | | 3 | 30.52 | 2.87 | 31.81 | | 4 | 25.04 | 2.71 | 26.25 | | 5 | 21.41 | 2.64 | 22.60 | | 6 | 18.72 | 2.55 | 19.86 | | 7 | 16.56 | 2.53 | 17.70 | 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 | 18.92 | 18.73 | 0.38 | 6 | | KK | 17.80 | 17.60 | 0.41 | 6 | | QQ | 14.46 | 13.62 | 1.67 | 3 | | JJ | 32.13 | 31.93 | 0.40 | 6 | | TT | 32.03 | 31.83 | 0.41 | 6 | | 77 | 48.70 | 48.44 | 0.51 | 6 | | 22 | 51.71 | 51.12 | 1.18 | 6 | | AKs | 35.55 | 35.29 | 0.51 | 4 | | AKo | 38.00 | 37.77 | 0.47 | 12 | | AQs | 28.46 | 27.72 | 1.50 | 3 | | JTs | 57.01 | 56.55 | 0.93 | 4 | | 76s | 62.05 | 61.60 | 0.90 | 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/Qd9d $0.01 USDC (x402) ## Related - Suit-equivalents: [Qc9c](Qc9c.md) · [Qh9h](Qh9h.md) · [Qs9s](Qs9s.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.