--- title: "33 vs 22: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/33-vs-22.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/33-vs-22" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "33 is a big favorite over 22 before the flop: 80.43% to 19.57% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/33-vs-97s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/33-vs-87s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/t8s-vs-22.md"] --- # 33 vs 22: preflop equity 33 is a big favorite over 22 before the flop: 80.43% to 19.57% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. If 33 and 22 get all the chips in before the flop, 33 owns 80.43% of the pot in the long run and 22 owns 19.57%. ## 33 against 22: the numbers **Exact preflop results for 33 against 22, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 33 | 77.942 | 4.975 | 17.083 | 80.429 | | 22 | 17.083 | 4.975 | 77.942 | 19.571 | 33 meets 22, and both are pocket pairs. A pair against a smaller pair is the classic crush: the smaller pair needs one of its two remaining cards to make a set. This is one of the lopsided matchups: 22 wins only 17.08% of the boards outright. About 4.98% of boards chop the pot, which is why equity sits slightly above the win figure for both hands. By strength against a random hand, 33 holds place 66 of 169 and 22 holds place 87. **Boards behind the percentages: 61,642,944 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 33 | 48,046,000 | 3,067,000 | 10,530,000 | | 22 | 10,530,000 | 3,067,000 | 48,046,000 | The total is exact: 36 specific deals times 1,712,304 boards. The three counts are approximate, worked out from the percentages to five decimals and rounded to the nearest thousand. **33 against 22 read as odds** | Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 33 | 4.110 | 1.283 | 5.854 | 0.243 | | 22 | 0.243 | 5.854 | 1.283 | 4.110 | In the last column, a pot-to-call ratio at or above the figure makes a call break even or better at this equity. ## Who is ahead on which flops Across the five flop textures 33's equity moves by 7.14 points, from 75.28% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) to 82.42% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better. 33 stays ahead on all five textures. **33 against 22 by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | 33 wins | Ties | 22 wins | 33 equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 25.844 | 81.155 | 2.527 | 16.318 | 82.418 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 5.065 | 73.791 | 2.978 | 23.231 | 75.280 | | Two-tone | 46.363 | 79.324 | 2.575 | 18.101 | 80.612 | | Monotone | 5.152 | 72.698 | 5.785 | 21.517 | 75.590 | | Paired | 17.576 | 72.306 | 15.241 | 12.453 | 79.926 | Flop types: rainbow means three different suits, two-tone means one suit twice, monotone means one suit three times, paired means a repeated rank. ## Compared with a random hand How much does the opponent matter? Compared with its random-hand 53.69%, 33 changes by +26.74 points, and 22, from 50.33%, by -30.76. **33 and 22 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 33, all flops | 80.429 | 53.693 | +26.736 | 1.49794 | | 33, rainbow, ten or higher | 82.418 | 53.693 | +28.725 | 1.53499 | | 33, rainbow, nine or lower | 75.280 | 53.693 | +21.587 | 1.40204 | | 33, two-tone | 80.612 | 53.693 | +26.919 | 1.50135 | | 33, monotone | 75.590 | 53.693 | +21.897 | 1.40782 | | 33, paired | 79.926 | 53.693 | +26.233 | 1.48857 | | 22, all flops | 19.571 | 50.334 | -30.763 | 0.38882 | | 22, rainbow, ten or higher | 17.582 | 50.334 | -32.752 | 0.34931 | | 22, rainbow, nine or lower | 24.720 | 50.334 | -25.614 | 0.49112 | | 22, two-tone | 19.388 | 50.334 | -30.946 | 0.38519 | | 22, monotone | 24.410 | 50.334 | -25.924 | 0.48496 | | 22, paired | 20.074 | 50.334 | -30.260 | 0.39882 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Suit overlap shows up in the numbers. With a suit in common 33 has 80.57% equity, and with none in common it has 79.75%. 33 does better with a shared suit, by 0.82 points. **33 against 22 by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | 33 wins | Ties | 22 wins | 33 equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 30 | 83.33 | 78.074 | 4.982 | 16.944 | 80.565 | | No shared suit | 6 | 16.67 | 77.284 | 4.937 | 17.779 | 79.753 | ## How often this matchup comes up Out of 1,624,350 ways to deal two seats two cards each, 36 are 33 in one seat and 22 in the other (0.0022%); with the seats swapped too, 72 (0.0044%). ## A worked example With $100 from each side, the $200 pot is split on average as $160.86 for 33 and $39.14 for 22; the first side gains $60.86 per all-in and the second gives up $60.86. In 1,000 deals of exactly this matchup, expect about 779 won outright by 33, about 171 won outright by 22 and about 50 split. ## The same matchup from the other side The mirror image, 22 against 33, is 19.57% to 80.43%, and its address redirects to this page. ## Keep exploring Try 3s3h against 2d2c in the calculator: the hands share no suit, and every card can be changed. The links after it are the closest matchups in the ranking. - [Open 3s3h against 2d2c in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=3s3h&p2=2d2c) - [33 combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/33.md) - [22 combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/22.md) - [33 vs 97s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/33-vs-97s.md) - [33 vs 87s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/33-vs-87s.md) - [T8s vs 22](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/t8s-vs-22.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed The page is built from a full enumeration: 1,712,304 boards, every suit pattern of the 36 specific deals, both seven-card hands evaluated. A tie is worth half a win to each hand, and a board is tallied under each of its ten possible flops for the texture rows. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [33 vs 97s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/33-vs-97s.md) - [33 vs 87s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/33-vs-87s.md) - [T8s vs 22: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/t8s-vs-22.md)