--- title: "66 vs 22: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/66-vs-22.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/66-vs-22" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "66 is a big favorite over 22 before the flop: 81.56% to 18.44% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/66-vs-97s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/66-vs-87s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a9s-vs-22.md"] --- # 66 vs 22: preflop equity 66 is a big favorite over 22 before the flop: 81.56% to 18.44% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. If 66 and 22 get all the chips in before the flop, 66 owns 81.56% of the pot in the long run and 22 owns 18.44%. ## 66 against 22: the numbers **Exact preflop results for 66 against 22, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 66 | 80.542 | 2.029 | 17.429 | 81.557 | | 22 | 17.429 | 2.029 | 80.542 | 18.443 | Here pocket pairs face each other, 66 on one side and 22 on the other. Both hands are pairs, so the bigger pair is ahead on every board that does not pair a card below it. A gap this wide means 22 is in trouble before the flop and has few good runouts. 2.03% of boards are ties, so the equity of each hand is its win rate plus half of that. The hand ranking puts 66 at 17 and 22 at 87 out of 169 starting hands. **Boards behind the percentages: 61,642,944 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 66 | 49,648,000 | 1,251,000 | 10,744,000 | | 22 | 10,744,000 | 1,251,000 | 49,648,000 | 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. **66 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 66 | 4.422 | 1.242 | 5.738 | 0.226 | | 22 | 0.226 | 5.738 | 1.242 | 4.422 | 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 By flop texture, 66's equity runs from 76.16% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) up to 84.61% on paired flops. 66 stays ahead on all five textures. **66 against 22 by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | 66 wins | Ties | 22 wins | 66 equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 25.844 | 82.053 | 1.170 | 16.777 | 82.638 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 5.065 | 75.670 | 0.983 | 23.347 | 76.162 | | Two-tone | 46.363 | 80.392 | 1.120 | 18.488 | 80.952 | | Monotone | 5.152 | 74.735 | 3.458 | 21.807 | 76.464 | | Paired | 17.576 | 81.821 | 5.575 | 12.604 | 84.609 | 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 +18.27 points for 66, from 63.29%, and -31.89 for 22, from 50.33%. **66 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 66, all flops | 81.557 | 63.285 | +18.272 | 1.28873 | | 66, rainbow, ten or higher | 82.638 | 63.285 | +19.353 | 1.30581 | | 66, rainbow, nine or lower | 76.162 | 63.285 | +12.877 | 1.20348 | | 66, two-tone | 80.952 | 63.285 | +17.667 | 1.27917 | | 66, monotone | 76.464 | 63.285 | +13.179 | 1.20825 | | 66, paired | 84.609 | 63.285 | +21.324 | 1.33695 | | 22, all flops | 18.443 | 50.334 | -31.891 | 0.36641 | | 22, rainbow, ten or higher | 17.362 | 50.334 | -32.972 | 0.34494 | | 22, rainbow, nine or lower | 23.838 | 50.334 | -26.496 | 0.47360 | | 22, two-tone | 19.048 | 50.334 | -31.286 | 0.37843 | | 22, monotone | 23.536 | 50.334 | -26.798 | 0.46760 | | 22, paired | 15.391 | 50.334 | -34.943 | 0.30578 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Does suit overlap move the numbers? 66 has 81.69% when the hands share a suit and 80.89% when they do not. 66 does better with a shared suit, by 0.80 points. **66 against 22 by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | 66 wins | Ties | 22 wins | 66 equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 30 | 83.33 | 80.673 | 2.036 | 17.291 | 81.691 | | No shared suit | 6 | 16.67 | 79.889 | 1.993 | 18.118 | 80.886 | ## How often this matchup comes up You will meet this exact matchup 0.0044% of the time in a random heads-up deal: 72 of 1,624,350, counting either seat order. ## A worked example With $100 from each side, the $200 pot is split on average as $163.12 for 66 and $36.88 for 22; the first side gains $63.12 per all-in and the second gives up $63.12. Out of 1,000 deals you should see around 806 outright wins for 66, 174 for 22, and 20 split pots. ## The same matchup from the other side The reversed view, 22 against 66, shows 18.44% for 22 and 81.56% for 66. It is the same count, so it redirects here. ## Keep exploring The calculator link fills in 6s6h against 2d2c, a deal where the two hands share no suit. Change any card to test your own hand. The neighboring matchups below swap one of the two hands for one of similar strength. - [Open 6s6h against 2d2c in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=6s6h&p2=2d2c) - [66 combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/66.md) - [22 combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/22.md) - [66 vs 97s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/66-vs-97s.md) - [66 vs 87s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/66-vs-87s.md) - [A9s vs 22](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a9s-vs-22.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed The figures are counted, not estimated: 1,712,304 boards for every suit pattern of the 36 specific deals, with both seven-card hands compared each time. Equity gives half a win for a tie. For the flop rows, a board is counted once under each of the ten flops inside it. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [66 vs 97s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/66-vs-97s.md) - [66 vs 87s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/66-vs-87s.md) - [A9s vs 22: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a9s-vs-22.md)