--- title: "75s vs 43s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/75s-vs-43s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/75s-vs-43s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "75s is a big favorite over 43s before the flop: 62.34% to 37.66% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/65s-vs-43s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/75s-vs-53s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/76s-vs-43s.md"] --- # 75s vs 43s: preflop equity 75s is a big favorite over 43s before the flop: 62.34% to 37.66% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Averaged over every possible board, 75s is ahead of 43s by 24.68 points of equity, 62.34% to 37.66%. ## 75s against 43s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for 75s against 43s, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 75s | 58.677 | 7.324 | 33.999 | 62.339 | | 43s | 33.999 | 7.324 | 58.677 | 37.661 | Two suited hands meet here: 75s against 43s. The two hands share no rank, which makes this a pure matchup of card strength, straight chances and flush chances. 75s is ahead, but 43s is far from dead: it takes 340 of every 1,000 deals outright. A split pot comes up on 7.32% of boards, so the wins and the equity differ by half of that. Place 124 of 169 belongs to 75s and place 150 belongs to 43s in the ranking against a random hand. **Boards behind the percentages: 27,396,864 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 75s | 16,076,000 | 2,007,000 | 9,315,000 | | 43s | 9,315,000 | 2,007,000 | 16,076,000 | 16 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. **75s against 43s read as odds** | Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 75s | 1.655 | 1.704 | 2.941 | 0.604 | | 43s | 0.604 | 2.941 | 1.704 | 1.655 | 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 If you know the kind of flop that came, the numbers shift: 75s holds 64.22% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) and 60.33% on monotone flops. 75s stays ahead on all five textures. **75s against 43s by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | 75s wins | Ties | 43s wins | 75s equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 25.844 | 59.727 | 7.077 | 33.196 | 63.265 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 5.065 | 63.711 | 1.025 | 35.264 | 64.223 | | Two-tone | 46.727 | 59.746 | 5.331 | 34.923 | 62.412 | | Monotone | 5.273 | 56.833 | 6.998 | 36.169 | 60.332 | | Paired | 17.091 | 53.243 | 15.115 | 31.642 | 60.800 | 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 How much does the opponent matter? Compared with its random-hand 43.68%, 75s changes by +18.66 points, and 43s, from 38.64%, by -0.98. **75s and 43s 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 75s, all flops | 62.339 | 43.676 | +18.663 | 1.42731 | | 75s, rainbow, ten or higher | 63.265 | 43.676 | +19.589 | 1.44851 | | 75s, rainbow, nine or lower | 64.223 | 43.676 | +20.547 | 1.47044 | | 75s, two-tone | 62.412 | 43.676 | +18.736 | 1.42898 | | 75s, monotone | 60.332 | 43.676 | +16.656 | 1.38135 | | 75s, paired | 60.800 | 43.676 | +17.124 | 1.39207 | | 43s, all flops | 37.661 | 38.642 | -0.981 | 0.97461 | | 43s, rainbow, ten or higher | 36.735 | 38.642 | -1.907 | 0.95065 | | 43s, rainbow, nine or lower | 35.777 | 38.642 | -2.865 | 0.92586 | | 43s, two-tone | 37.588 | 38.642 | -1.054 | 0.97272 | | 43s, monotone | 39.668 | 38.642 | +1.026 | 1.02655 | | 43s, paired | 39.200 | 38.642 | +0.558 | 1.01444 | ## Does a shared suit matter? The suit split reads 64.76% for 75s with a shared suit and 61.53% without one. 75s does better with a shared suit, by 3.23 points. **75s against 43s by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | 75s wins | Ties | 43s wins | 75s equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 4 | 25.00 | 60.828 | 7.868 | 31.304 | 64.762 | | No shared suit | 12 | 75.00 | 57.960 | 7.143 | 34.897 | 61.531 | ## How often this matchup comes up Exactly 16 specific deals fit this matchup in one seat order, which is 0.0010% of 1,624,350; both orders together give 32, or 0.0020%. ## A worked example Take a $200 pot built from $100 each. 75s' equity of 62.34% is worth $124.68, a $24.68 edge, and 43s' 37.66% is worth $75.32, which is $24.68 under its stake. Think in thousands: about 587 of 1,000 go to 75s, about 340 go to 43s, and about 73 are chopped. ## The same matchup from the other side The reversed view, 43s against 75s, shows 37.66% for 43s and 62.34% for 75s. It is the same count, so it redirects here. ## Keep exploring Try 7s5s 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. - [Open 7s5s against 4h3h in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=7s5s&p2=4h3h) - [75s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/75s.md) - [43s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/43s.md) - [65s vs 43s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/65s-vs-43s.md) - [75s vs 53s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/75s-vs-53s.md) - [76s vs 43s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/76s-vs-43s.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed This is an exact count with no sampling. For the 16 ways to deal one 75s and one 43s without reusing a card, grouped by suit pattern, every one of the 1,712,304 possible boards is dealt and both seven-card hands are compared. A tie counts as half a win in the equity column, and each board is counted once under each of its ten three-card flops. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [65s vs 43s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/65s-vs-43s.md) - [75s vs 53s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/75s-vs-53s.md) - [76s vs 43s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/76s-vs-43s.md)