66
54.82%
Wins 54.59%, ties 0.47%
K9o
45.18%
Wins 44.94%, ties 0.47%
66 against K9o: the numbers
| Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 66 | 54.586 | 0.465 | 44.949 | 54.819 |
| K9o | 44.949 | 0.465 | 54.586 | 45.181 |
The matchup pits a pocket pair against an offsuit hand. A pair against two higher cards is the classic race: the pair is usually a small favorite or close to even, and each overcard that pairs is a way to take the lead.
66 leads by less than 10 points of equity, so the result of any one deal is close to a toss-up. The tie share is 0.47%: on those boards the pot is chopped and neither hand wins outright.
In the ranking of all 169 starting hands, 66 is number 17 and K9o is number 40.
| Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about |
|---|---|---|---|
| 66 | 67,297,000 | 573,000 | 55,416,000 |
| K9o | 55,416,000 | 573,000 | 67,297,000 |
Exact total: 72 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 | 1.213 | 1.832 | 2.225 | 0.824 |
| K9o | 0.824 | 2.225 | 1.832 | 1.213 |
In the last column, a pot-to-call ratio at or above the figure makes a call break even or better at this equity.
Who is ahead on which flops
Split by what the flop looks like, 66 peaks at 64.58% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) and bottoms out at 51.48% on monotone flops. 66 stays ahead on all five textures.
| Flop | Share of flops | 66 wins | Ties | K9o wins | 66 equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rainbow, ten or higher | 25.341 | 52.083 | 0.246 | 47.671 | 52.206 |
| Rainbow, nine or lower | 5.689 | 64.262 | 0.631 | 35.107 | 64.577 |
| Two-tone | 46.485 | 53.977 | 0.306 | 45.717 | 54.130 |
| Monotone | 5.151 | 50.594 | 1.764 | 47.642 | 51.476 |
| Paired | 17.334 | 57.892 | 0.770 | 41.338 | 58.277 |
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
The table below sets each hand against its own random-hand baseline: a change of -8.47 points for 66, from 63.29%, and -12.63 for K9o, from 57.81%.
| Case | Equity here | Against a random hand | Change in points | Times the random-hand equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 66, all flops | 54.819 | 63.285 | -8.466 | 0.86622 |
| 66, rainbow, ten or higher | 52.206 | 63.285 | -11.079 | 0.82493 |
| 66, rainbow, nine or lower | 64.577 | 63.285 | +1.292 | 1.02042 |
| 66, two-tone | 54.130 | 63.285 | -9.155 | 0.85534 |
| 66, monotone | 51.476 | 63.285 | -11.809 | 0.81340 |
| 66, paired | 58.277 | 63.285 | -5.008 | 0.92087 |
| K9o, all flops | 45.181 | 57.812 | -12.631 | 0.78152 |
| K9o, rainbow, ten or higher | 47.794 | 57.812 | -10.018 | 0.82671 |
| K9o, rainbow, nine or lower | 35.423 | 57.812 | -22.389 | 0.61273 |
| K9o, two-tone | 45.870 | 57.812 | -11.942 | 0.79343 |
| K9o, monotone | 48.524 | 57.812 | -9.288 | 0.83934 |
| K9o, paired | 41.723 | 57.812 | -16.089 | 0.72170 |
Does a shared suit matter?
Looking only at deals where the hands share a suit, 66 has 54.74%; looking only at deals where they do not, 55.22%. 66 does better with no shared suit, by 0.48 points.
| Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | 66 wins | Ties | K9o wins | 66 equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Share a suit | 60 | 83.33 | 54.498 | 0.480 | 45.022 | 54.738 |
| No shared suit | 12 | 16.67 | 55.030 | 0.388 | 44.582 | 55.224 |
How often this matchup comes up
This page stands for 72 specific-card matchups (0.0044% of 1,624,350 ordered deals), or 144 once you count the seats both ways (0.0089%).
A worked example
A $100 all-in from each player makes a $200 pot, and the exact equity says 66 gets $109.64 of it on average and K9o gets $90.36.
Run 1,000 deals and the tally comes out near 546 for 66, 449 for K9o and 5 ties.
The same matchup from the other side
If you came looking for K9o against 66, the numbers are the same with the hands swapped: 45.18% and 54.82%.
Keep exploring
Try 6s6h against Kd9c 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
We counted every case. Each suit pattern of the 72 specific 66 against K9o deals meets all 1,712,304 boards, and the better five-card hand wins; a split pot is half a win each. The flop table reads each board under all ten of its three-card flops.
Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used.
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