Rate my poker hand
Enter your two cards and the board. You get the hand you’ve made, exactly how many of an opponent’s possible hands beat you, tie or lose to you right now, your odds against a random hand to the river, and a plain-language rating. Before the flop, you get your hand’s rank among all 169 starting hands.
Rate my hand
Calculating…
Right now you beat 1,019 of the 1,081 hands an opponent could hold, tie 6 and lose to 56.
✓ beat 94.3%= tie 0.6%✗ lose to 5.2%
Hands that beat you now
- Three of a kind · 7 combosQQ×199×344×3
- Two pair · 21 combosQ9o×4Q9s×2Q4o×5Q4s×194o×794s×2
- One pair · 28 combosAA×6KK×6AQo×6AQs×2KQo×6KQs×2
How the rating works
The rating is a band on one number: your equity against one random hand, with the rest of the board dealt out. Against a random hand the average holding scores exactly 50% — every deal is mirrored by one where the two hands swap — so 50% is the line between above and below average.
| Rating (equity vs a random hand) | Starting hands in this band | Share of deals |
|---|---|---|
| Monster85% or more | AA | 0.5% |
| Very strong70–85% | 5 hands, from KK to 99 | 2.3% |
| Strong60–70% | 24 hands, from 88 to A6s | 12.1% |
| Above average50–60% | 59 hands, from A8o to Q2s | 34.5% |
| Below average40–50% | 54 hands, from T8o to 65o | 32.6% |
| Weakunder 40% | 26 hands, from 93o to 32o | 18.1% |
The scale is deliberately simple, and you should know its limits. A random hand is the weakest opponent there is: it never folds its junk and never bets only its good hands. Real opponents who bet or raise hold much stronger ranges, so a hand rated Strong here can be an easy fold against a big raise. To rate your hand against the hands an opponent actually plays, use the equity calculator with a range.
Before the flop the tool also ranks your hand among the 169 starting hands, by the same all-in equity: pocket aces are 1st and 32o is 169th. That order says how often a hand wins a showdown, not how easy it is to play. Suited connectors rank lower than their real value because much of their value comes from winning big pots when they hit.
What “hands that beat you” counts
Once the flop is down, the analyzer stops guessing. With your two cards and three on the board, 47 cards are unseen, so an opponent can hold 1,081 different two-card hands; on the turn 1,035, on the river 990. It scores every one against yours with the evaluator that settles FizzPoker showdowns, and lists the ones that beat you, grouped by what they make.
Here is as the board runs out:
| Board and your hand | You beat | Tie | Beat you | Equity vs random |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pair of Queens | 1,019 | 6 | 56 | 85.0% |
| Pair of Queens | 922 | 6 | 107 | 83.6% |
| Straight, Queen high | 861 | 117 | 12 | 92.9% |
On the flop, top pair with a jack kicker loses to only 56 holdings: sets, two pairs, pocket aces and kings, and queens with a better kicker. The ten on the turn adds straights, new two pairs and a set of tens to that list (107 hands now beat you) while giving you an open-ended straight draw. The eight on the river completes your queen-high straight: 12 holdings still win (king-jack makes a higher straight), and 117 tie, because any jack makes the same straight.
Where you stand now vs by the river
The count describes the board as it is. Equity adds the cards still to come, and for draws the two numbers can be far apart. Each row below is exact — every possible opponent hand against every turn and river:
| Spot | Beats now | Equity vs random | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Set of sevenson | 99.7% | 97.5% | Monster |
| Top pair, good kickeron | 94.5% | 85.0% | Very strong |
| Pocket pair under two overcardson | 71.6% | 57.3% | Above average |
| Nut flush draw, ace highon | 53.0% | 67.4% | Strong |
| Open-ended straight drawon | 11.5% | 49.5% | Below average |
| Ace-king that missed, turnon | 49.1% | 45.9% | Below average |
The open-ended straight draw beats only 11.5% of hands on the flop — it is nine-high — yet it has 49.5% equity against a random hand, because eight cards make it a straight and pairs can still come. “Beats now” counts ties as half, like equity does.
Rating a hand is not reviewing a decision
A hand rating tells you how strong your cards are. It doesn’t tell you what to do with them — that depends on everything the cards can’t see: how many players are in the pot, your position, the stack sizes, the size of the bet you face, and above all what your opponent is likely to hold given how they played.
That’s why good hands still lose money and weak ones make it. Top pair can be a clear fold to heavy action on a board full of straights and flushes; a missed draw can be a profitable bluff when the river scares a player who only called. Good players judge the decision — the bet, call, raise or fold — by what it wins or loses on average against the opponent’s range, not by whether this particular hand won.
Two quick checks help in most spots: compare your equity against their likely range with the price of the call (pot odds), and ask which worse hands would call your bet and which better hands would fold to it.
How FizzPoker reviews your decisions
FizzPoker is free No-Limit Hold’em in the browser for 2–9 players. When you play signed in (a free account, no card), the game reviews your decisions after it ends: each graded decision is compared with game-theory models and labeled by its estimated cost as a share of the pot. The bands, as published on the Fizz Score page:
- acceptable up to 10% of the pot — within the model’s margin of error
- inaccuracy 10–30% of the pot
- mistake 30–80% — the models found a clearly better option
- blunder more than 80% of the pot
The costs are estimates and the labels advisory — a second opinion from approximate models, not a ruling. Pots with three or more players are estimates, unusual spots the models don’t cover are left ungraded with the reason shown, and hands the table played for you after a timeout are never graded. Your headline rating is the estimated value given up in big blinds per 100 hands, with a 90% range that narrows as you play. It all appears after the game; at the table you get no hints and no live advice.
Example review — not from a real game
- Preflop Raise with on the button acceptable
- Flop Bet after a check acceptable
- Turn Bet again after a check inaccuracyA smaller bet or a check was estimated to cost less.
- River Call a large bet with ace high mistakeFolding was estimated to lose less against the bettor’s likely range.
Notice what the example grades: not whether ace-queen was a good hand (it was), but whether each bet and call was a good price for what the opponent was likely to hold. That’s the difference between this page’s rating and a review of your play. Practice against bots or deal a table for friends, then read your review.
A review grades single decisions; the Stats tab on your account looks for patterns across many hands. It shows the classic numbers from your own FizzPoker games — VPIP, PFR, 3-bet, c-bet, how often you go to showdown and win there, your win rate in big blinds per 100 hands — broken down by position, with ranked coach’s advice that turns each leak into one concrete rule to try. And if you want to test your decisions right now, take the poker test: twelve 6-max Hold’em spots, each one graded.
Which poker hand wins at showdown
Each player makes the best five-card hand from their two hole cards and the five board cards, using both, one or none of their own. Categories rank from straight flush down through four of a kind, full house, flush, straight, three of a kind, two pair and one pair to high card. Within a category, higher ranks win, then kickers card by card; suits never break ties, and identical five-card hands split the pot. The tool names your hand the way the game’s dealer does — “Two Pair, Queens and Nines”, “Full House, Kings full of Sevens”. See poker hand rankings for every category with examples, or compare several hands at once in the poker calculator.
Questions people ask
How do I know if my poker hand is good?
Count how many of the hands an opponent could hold beat yours on this board, and check your equity against a random hand to the river. Then adjust for the opponent: a player who bets or raises holds stronger hands than a random one, so the same cards are worth less against them.
Which poker hand wins?
The best five-card hand made from your two hole cards and the five board cards. From best to worst: straight flush, four of a kind, full house, flush, straight, three of a kind, two pair, one pair, high card. Equal hands are split by kickers, and identical five-card hands split the pot.
What does “hands that beat you” mean?
On the flop 47 cards are unseen, so an opponent can hold 1,081 different two-card hands. The analyzer scores every one of them against yours on the current board, with no cards still to come, and counts how many you beat, tie and lose to.
What is the difference between hand strength and equity?
Hand strength is where you stand right now; equity also counts the cards still to come. A draw can beat very few hands on the flop and still have close to half the equity, because it improves on many turns and rivers. The analyzer shows both.
Can FizzPoker review how I played a hand?
Yes. After a game on FizzPoker, each decision a signed-in player made is compared with game-theory models and labeled by its estimated cost: acceptable (up to 10% of the pot), inaccuracy (10–30%), mistake (30–80%) or blunder (more than 80%). The review is advisory and only appears after the hand, never during play; with a free account the Stats tab also tracks patterns such as VPIP and PFR across all your games.