--- title: "44 vs 43s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/44-vs-43s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/44-vs-43s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "44 is a big favorite over 43s before the flop: 82.62% to 17.38% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/j9s-vs-43s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/44-vs-53s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qto-vs-43s.md"] --- # 44 vs 43s: preflop equity 44 is a big favorite over 43s before the flop: 82.62% to 17.38% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Counting every board, the equity split is 82.62% for 44 and 17.38% for 43s, so 44 leads by 65.24 points. ## 44 against 43s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for 44 against 43s, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 44 | 79.797 | 5.644 | 14.559 | 82.619 | | 43s | 14.559 | 5.644 | 79.797 | 17.381 | The matchup pits a pocket pair against a suited hand. One hand holds a card of the same rank as the pair, which removes a card the pair needs and makes the pair a bigger favorite. That is a heavy lead: 43s needs the board to help it on most runouts and still falls behind far more often than not. Ties are 5.64% of the outcomes here; each tied board gives both hands half the pot. Among the 169 starting hands, 44 is number 48 and 43s is number 150 by strength against a random hand. **Boards behind the percentages: 20,547,648 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 44 | 16,396,000 | 1,160,000 | 2,992,000 | | 43s | 2,992,000 | 1,160,000 | 16,396,000 | The board total is exact, 12 deals at 1,712,304 boards each. Won, tied and lost counts are rounded to the nearest thousand from the five-decimal percentages. **44 against 43s read as odds** | Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 44 | 4.753 | 1.253 | 6.869 | 0.210 | | 43s | 0.210 | 6.869 | 1.253 | 4.753 | 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 44's equity moves by 13.50 points, from 74.45% on monotone flops to 87.95% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better. 44 stays ahead on all five textures. **44 against 43s by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | 44 wins | Ties | 43s wins | 44 equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 25.786 | 86.302 | 3.297 | 10.401 | 87.951 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 4.995 | 75.470 | 8.000 | 16.530 | 79.470 | | Two-tone | 46.236 | 80.064 | 3.796 | 16.140 | 81.962 | | Monotone | 5.152 | 71.912 | 5.069 | 23.019 | 74.447 | | Paired | 17.831 | 73.187 | 13.337 | 13.476 | 79.855 | Read the flop types this way: rainbow has three suits, two-tone has two cards of one suit, monotone has three, and paired repeats a rank. ## Compared with a random hand The table below sets each hand against its own random-hand baseline: a change of +25.60 points for 44, from 57.02%, and -21.26 for 43s, from 38.64%. **44 and 43s 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 44, all flops | 82.619 | 57.023 | +25.596 | 1.44887 | | 44, rainbow, ten or higher | 87.951 | 57.023 | +30.928 | 1.54238 | | 44, rainbow, nine or lower | 79.470 | 57.023 | +22.447 | 1.39365 | | 44, two-tone | 81.962 | 57.023 | +24.939 | 1.43735 | | 44, monotone | 74.447 | 57.023 | +17.424 | 1.30556 | | 44, paired | 79.855 | 57.023 | +22.832 | 1.40040 | | 43s, all flops | 17.381 | 38.642 | -21.261 | 0.44980 | | 43s, rainbow, ten or higher | 12.049 | 38.642 | -26.593 | 0.31181 | | 43s, rainbow, nine or lower | 20.530 | 38.642 | -18.112 | 0.53129 | | 43s, two-tone | 18.038 | 38.642 | -20.604 | 0.46680 | | 43s, monotone | 25.553 | 38.642 | -13.089 | 0.66128 | | 43s, paired | 20.145 | 38.642 | -18.497 | 0.52132 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Suits do not split this matchup, because no legal deal has the hands holding the same suit. **44 against 43s by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | 44 wins | Ties | 43s wins | 44 equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 0 | 0.00 | not possible | not possible | not possible | not possible | | No shared suit | 12 | 100.00 | 79.797 | 5.644 | 14.559 | 82.619 | ## How often this matchup comes up You will meet this exact matchup 0.0015% of the time in a random heads-up deal: 24 of 1,624,350, counting either seat order. ## A worked example Take a $200 pot built from $100 each. 44's equity of 82.62% is worth $165.24, a $65.24 edge, and 43s' 17.38% is worth $34.76, which is $65.24 under its stake. Per 1,000 deals: 44 wins about 798, 43s wins about 146, and about 56 end in a split pot. ## The same matchup from the other side The reversed view, 43s against 44, shows 17.38% for 43s and 82.62% for 44. It is the same count, so it redirects here. ## Keep exploring Open the calculator with 4s4h against 4d3d already entered, a deal with no shared suit, and change any card to try your own hand. The matchups after it each swap one hand for a nearby one in the ranking. - [Open 4s4h against 4d3d in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=4s4h&p2=4d3d) - [44 combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/44.md) - [43s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/43s.md) - [J9s vs 43s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/j9s-vs-43s.md) - [44 vs 53s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/44-vs-53s.md) - [QTo vs 43s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qto-vs-43s.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed We counted every case. Each suit pattern of the 12 specific 44 against 43s deals meets all 1,712,304 boards, and the better five-card hand wins; a split pot is half a win each. The flop table reads each board under all ten of its three-card flops. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [J9s vs 43s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/j9s-vs-43s.md) - [44 vs 53s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/44-vs-53s.md) - [QTo vs 43s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qto-vs-43s.md)