54s
53.18%
Wins 31.43%, ties 43.51%
53s
46.82%
Wins 25.06%, ties 43.51%
54s against 53s: the numbers
| Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 54s | 31.428 | 43.506 | 25.066 | 53.181 |
| 53s | 25.066 | 43.506 | 31.428 | 46.819 |
Here suited hands face each other, 54s on one side and 53s on the other. The two hands share a rank, and the one with the better other card dominates: it wins most kicker battles when that shared rank hits.
That is a slim edge: neither hand is far ahead. Of every 100 boards, about 43.51 are split pots, and the equity figures already include them.
By strength against a random hand, 54s holds place 136 of 169 and 53s holds place 146.
| Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about |
|---|---|---|---|
| 54s | 6,458,000 | 8,939,000 | 5,150,000 |
| 53s | 5,150,000 | 8,939,000 | 6,458,000 |
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 | 1.136 | 3.182 | 3.989 | 0.880 |
| 53s | 0.880 | 3.989 | 3.182 | 1.136 |
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
By flop texture, 54s' equity runs from 51.58% on paired flops up to 57.16% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower). 54s stays ahead on all five textures.
| Flop | Share of flops | 54s wins | Ties | 53s wins | 54s equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rainbow, ten or higher | 25.844 | 29.138 | 48.027 | 22.835 | 53.152 |
| Rainbow, nine or lower | 5.065 | 40.811 | 32.700 | 26.489 | 57.161 |
| Two-tone | 46.543 | 33.596 | 39.631 | 26.773 | 53.412 |
| Monotone | 5.215 | 37.267 | 30.900 | 31.833 | 52.717 |
| Paired | 17.333 | 24.521 | 54.121 | 21.358 | 51.581 |
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, 39.69% for 53s. Here the change is +11.73 and +7.13 points.
| Case | Equity here | Against a random hand | Change in points | Times the random-hand equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 54s, all flops | 53.181 | 41.453 | +11.728 | 1.28292 |
| 54s, rainbow, ten or higher | 53.152 | 41.453 | +11.699 | 1.28222 |
| 54s, rainbow, nine or lower | 57.161 | 41.453 | +15.708 | 1.37894 |
| 54s, two-tone | 53.412 | 41.453 | +11.959 | 1.28850 |
| 54s, monotone | 52.717 | 41.453 | +11.264 | 1.27173 |
| 54s, paired | 51.581 | 41.453 | +10.128 | 1.24432 |
| 53s, all flops | 46.819 | 39.693 | +7.126 | 1.17953 |
| 53s, rainbow, ten or higher | 46.848 | 39.693 | +7.155 | 1.18026 |
| 53s, rainbow, nine or lower | 42.839 | 39.693 | +3.146 | 1.07926 |
| 53s, two-tone | 46.588 | 39.693 | +6.895 | 1.17371 |
| 53s, monotone | 47.283 | 39.693 | +7.590 | 1.19122 |
| 53s, paired | 48.419 | 39.693 | +8.726 | 1.21984 |
Does a shared suit matter?
The hands cannot hold a suit in common here, which leaves a single case and a single number: 53.18% for 54s.
| Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | 54s wins | Ties | 53s wins | 54s equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Share a suit | 0 | 0.00 | not possible | not possible | not possible | not possible |
| No shared suit | 12 | 100.00 | 31.428 | 43.506 | 25.066 | 53.181 |
How often this matchup comes up
How often does it happen? 12 of the 1,624,350 ordered deals (0.0007%) are 54s against 53s, and 24 (0.0015%) if either hand may sit in either seat.
A worked example
Take a $200 pot built from $100 each. 54s' equity of 53.18% is worth $106.36, a $6.36 edge, and 53s' 46.82% is worth $93.64, which is $6.36 under its stake.
Per 1,000 deals: 54s wins about 314, 53s wins about 251, and about 435 end in a split pot.
The same matchup from the other side
The reversed view, 53s against 54s, shows 46.82% for 53s and 53.18% for 54s. It is the same count, so it redirects here.
Keep exploring
Try 5s4s against 5h3h 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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