66
81.45%
Wins 80.45%, ties 2.00%
33
18.55%
Wins 17.55%, ties 2.00%
66 against 33: the numbers
| Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 66 | 80.452 | 1.996 | 17.552 | 81.450 |
| 33 | 17.552 | 1.996 | 80.452 | 18.550 |
66 meets 33, and both are pocket pairs. Two pairs against each other is a one-way street: the lower pair needs one of its two remaining cards.
A gap this wide means 33 is in trouble before the flop and has few good runouts. Of every 100 boards, about 2.00 are split pots, and the equity figures already include them.
66 ranks number 17 of 169 starting hands, and 33 ranks number 66, by equity against a random hand.
| Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about |
|---|---|---|---|
| 66 | 49,593,000 | 1,230,000 | 10,820,000 |
| 33 | 10,820,000 | 1,230,000 | 49,593,000 |
Exact total: 36 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 66 | 4.391 | 1.243 | 5.697 | 0.228 |
| 33 | 0.228 | 5.697 | 1.243 | 4.391 |
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
Break the boards down by their first three cards and 66 is strongest on paired flops (84.53%) and weakest on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) (75.80%). 66 stays ahead on all five textures.
| Flop | Share of flops | 66 wins | Ties | 33 wins | 66 equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rainbow, ten or higher | 25.844 | 81.997 | 1.170 | 16.833 | 82.582 |
| Rainbow, nine or lower | 5.065 | 75.362 | 0.872 | 23.766 | 75.798 |
| Two-tone | 46.363 | 80.298 | 1.103 | 18.599 | 80.850 |
| Monotone | 5.152 | 74.664 | 3.082 | 22.254 | 76.205 |
| Paired | 17.576 | 81.747 | 5.575 | 12.678 | 84.534 |
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
Each hand has a baseline against a random hand: 63.29% for 66, 53.69% for 33. Here the change is +18.16 and -35.14 points.
| Case | Equity here | Against a random hand | Change in points | Times the random-hand equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 66, all flops | 81.450 | 63.285 | +18.165 | 1.28703 |
| 66, rainbow, ten or higher | 82.582 | 63.285 | +19.297 | 1.30492 |
| 66, rainbow, nine or lower | 75.798 | 63.285 | +12.513 | 1.19772 |
| 66, two-tone | 80.850 | 63.285 | +17.565 | 1.27755 |
| 66, monotone | 76.205 | 63.285 | +12.920 | 1.20416 |
| 66, paired | 84.534 | 63.285 | +21.249 | 1.33577 |
| 33, all flops | 18.550 | 53.693 | -35.143 | 0.34548 |
| 33, rainbow, ten or higher | 17.418 | 53.693 | -36.275 | 0.32440 |
| 33, rainbow, nine or lower | 24.202 | 53.693 | -29.491 | 0.45075 |
| 33, two-tone | 19.150 | 53.693 | -34.543 | 0.35666 |
| 33, monotone | 23.795 | 53.693 | -29.898 | 0.44317 |
| 33, paired | 15.466 | 53.693 | -38.227 | 0.28804 |
Does a shared suit matter?
The suit split reads 81.59% for 66 with a shared suit and 80.77% without one. 66 does better with a shared suit, by 0.82 points.
| Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | 66 wins | Ties | 33 wins | 66 equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Share a suit | 30 | 83.33 | 80.582 | 2.007 | 17.411 | 81.586 |
| No shared suit | 6 | 16.67 | 79.800 | 1.942 | 18.258 | 80.771 |
How often this matchup comes up
Exactly 36 specific deals fit this matchup in one seat order, which is 0.0022% of 1,624,350; both orders together give 72, or 0.0044%.
A worked example
To see what the equity is worth, imagine $100 each in a $200 pot. 66 is worth $162.90 on average (+$62.90); 33 is worth $37.10 (-$62.90).
Run 1,000 deals and the tally comes out near 804 for 66, 176 for 33 and 20 ties.
The same matchup from the other side
If you came looking for 33 against 66, the numbers are the same with the hands swapped: 18.55% and 81.45%.
Keep exploring
The calculator link fills in 6s6h against 3d3c, 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.
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.
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