--- title: "55 vs 22: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/55-vs-22.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/55-vs-22" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "55 is a big favorite over 22 before the flop: 81.57% to 18.43% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/55-vs-97s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/55-vs-87s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjs-vs-22.md"] --- # 55 vs 22: preflop equity 55 is a big favorite over 22 before the flop: 81.57% to 18.43% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. If 55 and 22 get all the chips in before the flop, 55 owns 81.57% of the pot in the long run and 22 owns 18.43%. ## 55 against 22: the numbers **Exact preflop results for 55 against 22, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 55 | 80.171 | 2.803 | 17.026 | 81.573 | | 22 | 17.026 | 2.803 | 80.171 | 18.427 | Each side holds one of the pocket pairs: 55 and 22. Both hands are pairs, so the bigger pair is ahead on every board that does not pair a card below it. This is one of the lopsided matchups: 22 wins only 17.03% of the boards outright. Of every 100 boards, about 2.80 are split pots, and the equity figures already include them. By strength against a random hand, 55 holds place 27 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 55 | 49,420,000 | 1,728,000 | 10,495,000 | | 22 | 10,495,000 | 1,728,000 | 49,420,000 | 36 specific deals times 1,712,304 boards gives the exact total. The won, tied and lost counts are approximations from the five-decimal percentages, rounded to the nearest thousand. **55 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 55 | 4.427 | 1.247 | 5.873 | 0.226 | | 22 | 0.226 | 5.873 | 1.247 | 4.427 | The last column is the smallest pot odds, written as a pot-to-call ratio, at which a call breaks even with this equity. ## Who is ahead on which flops If you know the kind of flop that came, the numbers shift: 55 holds 83.51% on paired flops and 76.54% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower). 55 stays ahead on all five textures. **55 against 22 by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | 55 wins | Ties | 22 wins | 55 equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 25.844 | 82.107 | 1.575 | 16.318 | 82.894 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 5.065 | 75.873 | 1.339 | 22.788 | 76.542 | | Two-tone | 46.363 | 80.454 | 1.515 | 18.031 | 81.212 | | Monotone | 5.152 | 74.542 | 3.993 | 21.465 | 76.539 | | Paired | 17.576 | 79.468 | 8.079 | 12.453 | 83.507 | 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 How much does the opponent matter? Compared with its random-hand 60.33%, 55 changes by +21.24 points, and 22, from 50.33%, by -31.90. **55 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 55, all flops | 81.573 | 60.325 | +21.248 | 1.35223 | | 55, rainbow, ten or higher | 82.894 | 60.325 | +22.569 | 1.37412 | | 55, rainbow, nine or lower | 76.542 | 60.325 | +16.217 | 1.26883 | | 55, two-tone | 81.212 | 60.325 | +20.887 | 1.34624 | | 55, monotone | 76.539 | 60.325 | +16.214 | 1.26878 | | 55, paired | 83.507 | 60.325 | +23.182 | 1.38429 | | 22, all flops | 18.427 | 50.334 | -31.907 | 0.36609 | | 22, rainbow, ten or higher | 17.106 | 50.334 | -33.228 | 0.33985 | | 22, rainbow, nine or lower | 23.458 | 50.334 | -26.876 | 0.46605 | | 22, two-tone | 18.788 | 50.334 | -31.546 | 0.37327 | | 22, monotone | 23.461 | 50.334 | -26.873 | 0.46611 | | 22, paired | 16.493 | 50.334 | -33.841 | 0.32767 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Two kinds of deal exist here. In 30 of them the hands share a suit and 55 holds 81.71%. In 6 they do not, and it holds 80.89%. 55 does better with a shared suit, by 0.82 points. **55 against 22 by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | 55 wins | Ties | 22 wins | 55 equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 30 | 83.33 | 80.304 | 2.810 | 16.886 | 81.709 | | No shared suit | 6 | 16.67 | 79.511 | 2.766 | 17.723 | 80.894 | ## How often this matchup comes up This page stands for 36 specific-card matchups (0.0022% of 1,624,350 ordered deals), or 72 once you count the seats both ways (0.0044%). ## A worked example To see what the equity is worth, imagine $100 each in a $200 pot. 55 is worth $163.14 on average (+$63.14); 22 is worth $36.86 (-$63.14). Scaled to 1,000 deals, that is roughly 802 wins for 55, 170 for 22 and 28 chopped pots. ## The same matchup from the other side Swap the hands and you get 22 with 18.43% against 55 with 81.57%. We keep one page per matchup, with the better-ranked hand first. ## Keep exploring Try 5s5h 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 5s5h against 2d2c in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=5s5h&p2=2d2c) - [55 combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/55.md) - [22 combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/22.md) - [55 vs 97s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/55-vs-97s.md) - [55 vs 87s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/55-vs-87s.md) - [QJs vs 22](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjs-vs-22.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed Each figure is a complete count over boards. Take the 36 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 - [55 vs 97s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/55-vs-97s.md) - [55 vs 87s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/55-vs-87s.md) - [QJs vs 22: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjs-vs-22.md)