54s
59.31%
Wins 43.67%, ties 31.27%
43s
40.69%
Wins 25.06%, ties 31.27%
54s against 43s: the numbers
| Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 54s | 43.670 | 31.270 | 25.060 | 59.305 |
| 43s | 25.060 | 31.270 | 43.670 | 40.695 |
Two suited hands meet here: 54s against 43s. Sharing a rank is the signature of a dominated hand, since the weaker hand is usually out-kicked when the shared rank shows up.
54s is ahead, but 43s is far from dead: it takes 250 of every 1,000 deals outright. Ties are part of the picture: 31.27% of boards end in a split pot, and each side counts that as half a win.
Ranked by equity against a random hand, 54s is number 136 of the 169 starting hands and 43s is number 150.
| Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about |
|---|---|---|---|
| 54s | 8,973,000 | 6,425,000 | 5,149,000 |
| 43s | 5,149,000 | 6,425,000 | 8,973,000 |
Exact total: 12 deals times 1,712,304 boards. The other three counts come from the five-decimal percentages and are rounded to the nearest thousand, so read them as approximate.
| Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 54s | 1.457 | 2.290 | 3.990 | 0.686 |
| 43s | 0.686 | 3.990 | 2.290 | 1.457 |
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
The flop changes the picture. 54s does best on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower), at 62.94%, and worst on monotone flops, at 56.55%. 54s stays ahead on all five textures.
| Flop | Share of flops | 54s wins | Ties | 43s wins | 54s equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rainbow, ten or higher | 25.844 | 43.327 | 33.838 | 22.835 | 60.246 |
| Rainbow, nine or lower | 5.065 | 52.358 | 21.153 | 26.489 | 62.935 |
| Two-tone | 46.543 | 45.247 | 27.980 | 26.773 | 59.237 |
| Monotone | 5.215 | 44.808 | 23.482 | 31.710 | 56.549 |
| Paired | 17.333 | 37.063 | 41.579 | 21.358 | 57.852 |
A rainbow flop shows three suits, a two-tone flop repeats one suit, a monotone flop is a single suit, and a paired flop repeats a rank.
Compared with a random hand
Each hand has a baseline against a random hand: 41.45% for 54s, 38.64% for 43s. Here the change is +17.86 and +2.05 points.
| Case | Equity here | Against a random hand | Change in points | Times the random-hand equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 54s, all flops | 59.305 | 41.453 | +17.852 | 1.43066 |
| 54s, rainbow, ten or higher | 60.246 | 41.453 | +18.793 | 1.45336 |
| 54s, rainbow, nine or lower | 62.935 | 41.453 | +21.482 | 1.51823 |
| 54s, two-tone | 59.237 | 41.453 | +17.784 | 1.42902 |
| 54s, monotone | 56.549 | 41.453 | +15.096 | 1.36417 |
| 54s, paired | 57.852 | 41.453 | +16.399 | 1.39560 |
| 43s, all flops | 40.695 | 38.642 | +2.053 | 1.05313 |
| 43s, rainbow, ten or higher | 39.754 | 38.642 | +1.112 | 1.02878 |
| 43s, rainbow, nine or lower | 37.065 | 38.642 | -1.577 | 0.95919 |
| 43s, two-tone | 40.763 | 38.642 | +2.121 | 1.05489 |
| 43s, monotone | 43.451 | 38.642 | +4.809 | 1.12445 |
| 43s, paired | 42.148 | 38.642 | +3.506 | 1.09073 |
Does a shared suit matter?
These two classes cannot share a suit in any legal deal, so there is only one row to read: 54s holds 59.31% in every deal of this matchup.
| Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | 54s wins | Ties | 43s wins | 54s equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Share a suit | 0 | 0.00 | not possible | not possible | not possible | not possible |
| No shared suit | 12 | 100.00 | 43.670 | 31.270 | 25.060 | 59.305 |
How often this matchup comes up
Exactly 12 specific deals fit this matchup in one seat order, which is 0.0007% of 1,624,350; both orders together give 24, or 0.0015%.
A worked example
To see what the equity is worth, imagine $100 each in a $200 pot. 54s is worth $118.62 on average (+$18.62); 43s is worth $81.38 (-$18.62).
Per 1,000 deals: 54s wins about 437, 43s wins about 250, and about 313 end in a split pot.
The same matchup from the other side
One page covers both views. From 43s' side the equity is 40.69%, and from 54s' side it is 59.31%.
Keep exploring
Try 5s4s against 4h3h 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.
How this was computed
The page is built from a full enumeration: 1,712,304 boards, every suit pattern of the 12 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.
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