64s
61.54%
Wins 49.82%, ties 23.43%
43s
38.46%
Wins 26.75%, ties 23.43%
64s against 43s: the numbers
| Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 64s | 49.824 | 23.433 | 26.743 | 61.540 |
| 43s | 26.743 | 23.433 | 49.824 | 38.460 |
64s meets 43s, and both are suited hands. Sharing a rank is the signature of a dominated hand, since the weaker hand is usually out-kicked when the shared rank shows up.
The lead is steady rather than large, and the flop still has plenty of say in who wins. A split pot comes up on 23.43% of boards, so the wins and the equity differ by half of that.
By strength against a random hand, 64s holds place 138 of 169 and 43s holds place 150.
| Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about |
|---|---|---|---|
| 64s | 10,238,000 | 4,815,000 | 5,495,000 |
| 43s | 5,495,000 | 4,815,000 | 10,238,000 |
12 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.
| Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 64s | 1.600 | 2.007 | 3.739 | 0.625 |
| 43s | 0.625 | 3.739 | 2.007 | 1.600 |
The final column gives the least the pot must offer for each unit called for a call to break even at this equity.
Who is ahead on which flops
64s prefers low rainbow flops (nine high or lower), where it holds 64.34%, and likes monotone flops least, where it holds 57.92%. 64s stays ahead on all five textures.
| Flop | Share of flops | 64s wins | Ties | 43s wins | 64s equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rainbow, ten or higher | 25.844 | 50.493 | 24.494 | 25.013 | 62.740 |
| Rainbow, nine or lower | 5.065 | 56.564 | 15.560 | 27.876 | 64.344 |
| Two-tone | 46.543 | 50.971 | 20.526 | 28.503 | 61.234 |
| Monotone | 5.215 | 48.664 | 18.502 | 32.834 | 57.915 |
| Paired | 17.333 | 44.125 | 33.439 | 22.436 | 60.844 |
Rainbow flops have three suits, two-tone flops repeat one suit, monotone flops are all one suit, and paired flops repeat a rank.
Compared with a random hand
Against one random hand instead, 64s holds 41.33% and 43s holds 38.64%. Facing each other changes that by +20.21 points for 64s and -0.18 points for 43s.
| Case | Equity here | Against a random hand | Change in points | Times the random-hand equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 64s, all flops | 61.540 | 41.333 | +20.207 | 1.48888 |
| 64s, rainbow, ten or higher | 62.740 | 41.333 | +21.407 | 1.51792 |
| 64s, rainbow, nine or lower | 64.344 | 41.333 | +23.011 | 1.55672 |
| 64s, two-tone | 61.234 | 41.333 | +19.901 | 1.48148 |
| 64s, monotone | 57.915 | 41.333 | +16.582 | 1.40118 |
| 64s, paired | 60.844 | 41.333 | +19.511 | 1.47204 |
| 43s, all flops | 38.460 | 38.642 | -0.182 | 0.99529 |
| 43s, rainbow, ten or higher | 37.260 | 38.642 | -1.382 | 0.96424 |
| 43s, rainbow, nine or lower | 35.656 | 38.642 | -2.986 | 0.92273 |
| 43s, two-tone | 38.766 | 38.642 | +0.124 | 1.00321 |
| 43s, monotone | 42.085 | 38.642 | +3.443 | 1.08910 |
| 43s, paired | 39.156 | 38.642 | +0.514 | 1.01330 |
Does a shared suit matter?
Every legal deal of 64s against 43s leaves the hands with no suit in common, so the suit split does not apply here.
| Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | 64s wins | Ties | 43s wins | 64s equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Share a suit | 0 | 0.00 | not possible | not possible | not possible | not possible |
| No shared suit | 12 | 100.00 | 49.824 | 23.433 | 26.743 | 61.540 |
How often this matchup comes up
How often does it happen? 12 of the 1,624,350 ordered deals (0.0007%) are 64s against 43s, and 24 (0.0015%) if either hand may sit in either seat.
A worked example
Put $100 each into a $200 pot and deal every board once: 64s averages $123.08 back, ahead of its $100 by $23.08, while 43s averages $76.92, short of its $100 by $23.08.
Out of 1,000 deals you should see around 498 outright wins for 64s, 268 for 43s, and 234 split pots.
The same matchup from the other side
Swap the hands and you get 43s with 38.46% against 64s with 61.54%. We keep one page per matchup, with the better-ranked hand first.
Keep exploring
Try 6s4s 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
All 1,712,304 five-card boards are dealt for every suit pattern among the 12 specific deals of 64s against 43s, and both hands are scored on each. That is a full count, so the percentages are exact. Ties are half a win each, and each board appears once per flop it contains.
Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used.
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