--- title: "22 vs 64s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/22-vs-64s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/22-vs-64s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "22 vs 64s is close to a coin flip before the flop: 49.10% to 50.90% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/22-vs-53s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/22-vs-43s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/97s-vs-64s.md"] --- # 22 vs 64s: preflop equity 22 vs 64s is close to a coin flip before the flop: 49.10% to 50.90% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. If 64s and 22 get all the chips in before the flop, 64s owns 50.90% of the pot in the long run and 22 owns 49.10%. ## 22 against 64s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for 22 against 64s, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 22 | 47.530 | 3.135 | 49.335 | 49.098 | | 64s | 49.335 | 3.135 | 47.530 | 50.902 | Here a pocket pair (22) meets a suited hand (64s). One hand holds a pair and the other holds two cards that both outrank it, which keeps the equity closer than most people expect. This is close to even money, with 64s a little ahead. A split pot comes up on 3.14% of boards, so the wins and the equity differ by half of that. Ranked by equity against a random hand, 22 is number 87 of the 169 starting hands and 64s is number 138. **Boards behind the percentages: 41,095,296 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 22 | 19,533,000 | 1,288,000 | 20,274,000 | | 64s | 20,274,000 | 1,288,000 | 19,533,000 | The board total is exact, 24 deals at 1,712,304 boards each. Won, tied and lost counts are rounded to the nearest thousand from the five-decimal percentages. **22 against 64s read as odds** | Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 22 | 0.965 | 2.104 | 2.027 | 1.037 | | 64s | 1.037 | 2.027 | 2.104 | 0.965 | The last column is the break-even price: the pot odds a call needs to offer, as a ratio of pot to call. ## Who is ahead on which flops The flop changes the picture. 64s does best on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower), at 62.22%, and worst on paired flops, at 47.77%. Rainbow flops topped by a ten or better and paired flops favor 22, the hand that is behind overall. **22 against 64s by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | 22 wins | Ties | 64s wins | 22 equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 25.844 | 51.072 | 1.734 | 47.194 | 51.939 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 5.065 | 37.030 | 1.511 | 61.459 | 37.785 | | Two-tone | 46.545 | 46.816 | 1.611 | 51.573 | 47.622 | | Monotone | 5.212 | 46.380 | 4.791 | 48.829 | 48.775 | | Paired | 17.334 | 47.582 | 9.293 | 43.125 | 52.229 | Rainbow flops have three suits, two-tone flops repeat one suit, monotone flops are all one suit, and paired flops repeat a rank. ## Compared with a random hand The table below sets each hand against its own random-hand baseline: a change of -1.23 points for 22, from 50.33%, and +9.57 for 64s, from 41.33%. **22 and 64s here compared with each against a random hand, in percent** | Case | Equity here | Against a random hand | Change in points | Times the random-hand equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 22, all flops | 49.098 | 50.334 | -1.236 | 0.97544 | | 22, rainbow, ten or higher | 51.939 | 50.334 | +1.605 | 1.03189 | | 22, rainbow, nine or lower | 37.785 | 50.334 | -12.549 | 0.75069 | | 22, two-tone | 47.622 | 50.334 | -2.712 | 0.94612 | | 22, monotone | 48.775 | 50.334 | -1.559 | 0.96903 | | 22, paired | 52.229 | 50.334 | +1.895 | 1.03765 | | 64s, all flops | 50.902 | 41.333 | +9.569 | 1.23151 | | 64s, rainbow, ten or higher | 48.061 | 41.333 | +6.728 | 1.16278 | | 64s, rainbow, nine or lower | 62.215 | 41.333 | +20.882 | 1.50521 | | 64s, two-tone | 52.378 | 41.333 | +11.045 | 1.26722 | | 64s, monotone | 51.225 | 41.333 | +9.892 | 1.23932 | | 64s, paired | 47.771 | 41.333 | +6.438 | 1.15576 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Two kinds of deal exist here. In 12 of them the hands share a suit and 64s holds 50.76%. In 12 they do not, and it holds 51.05%. 64s does better with no shared suit, by 0.29 points. **22 against 64s by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | 22 wins | Ties | 64s wins | 22 equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 12 | 50.00 | 47.665 | 3.154 | 49.181 | 49.242 | | No shared suit | 12 | 50.00 | 47.396 | 3.116 | 49.488 | 48.954 | ## How often this matchup comes up Counting specific cards, 22 against 64s appears in 24 of the 1,624,350 ordered heads-up deals (0.0015%), and in 48 when the seats are swapped too (0.0030%). ## A worked example To see what the equity is worth, imagine $100 each in a $200 pot. 64s is worth $101.80 on average (+$1.80); 22 is worth $98.20 (-$1.80). Run 1,000 deals and the tally comes out near 494 for 64s, 475 for 22 and 31 ties. ## The same matchup from the other side 64s versus 22 is this same page seen from the other hand: 50.90% for 64s, 49.10% for 22. ## Keep exploring 2s2h against 6d4d is a ready-made deal for the calculator, with no suit in common between the hands. The neighboring matchups below replace one hand with another of similar strength. - [Open 2s2h against 6d4d in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=2s2h&p2=6d4d) - [22 combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/22.md) - [64s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/64s.md) - [22 vs 53s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/22-vs-53s.md) - [22 vs 43s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/22-vs-43s.md) - [97s vs 64s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/97s-vs-64s.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed Each figure is a complete count over boards. Take the 24 specific deals, group them by suit pattern, deal all 1,712,304 boards against each, and compare the two seven-card hands. Equity counts a tie as half a win; the flop rows use every one of a board's ten flops. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [22 vs 53s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/22-vs-53s.md) - [22 vs 43s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/22-vs-43s.md) - [97s vs 64s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/97s-vs-64s.md)