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title: "75s vs 65s: preflop equity"
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summary: "75s is a big favorite over 65s before the flop: 63.64% to 36.36% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit."
related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/75s-vs-54s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/75s-vs-64s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/76s-vs-65s.md"]
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# 75s vs 65s: preflop equity

75s is a big favorite over 65s before the flop: 63.64% to 36.36% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit.

Counting every board, the equity split is 63.64% for 75s and 36.36% for 65s, so 75s leads by 27.28 points.

## 75s against 65s: the numbers

**Exact preflop results for 75s against 65s, in percent**

| Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 75s | 55.150 | 16.983 | 27.867 | 63.641 |
| 65s | 27.867 | 16.983 | 55.150 | 36.359 |

75s meets 65s, and both are suited hands. The two hands share a rank, and the one with the better other card dominates: it wins most kicker battles when that shared rank hits.

That is a modest edge, the kind that shows up over many hands and is easy to miss in one. A split pot comes up on 16.98% of boards, so the wins and the equity differ by half of that.

Among the 169 starting hands, 75s is number 124 and 65s is number 128 by strength against a random hand.

**Boards behind the percentages: 20,547,648 counted in all**

| Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 75s | 11,332,000 | 3,490,000 | 5,726,000 |
| 65s | 5,726,000 | 3,490,000 | 11,332,000 |

The total is exact: 12 specific deals times 1,712,304 boards. The three counts are approximate, worked out from the percentages to five decimals and rounded to the nearest thousand.

**75s against 65s 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 | 1.750 | 1.813 | 3.588 | 0.571 |
| 65s | 0.571 | 3.588 | 1.813 | 1.750 |

The last column is the break-even price: the pot odds a call needs to offer, as a ratio of pot to call.

## Who is ahead on which flops

If you know the kind of flop that came, the numbers shift: 75s holds 66.34% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better and 59.01% on monotone flops. 75s stays ahead on all five textures.

**75s against 65s by flop texture, in percent**

| Flop | Share of flops | 75s wins | Ties | 65s wins | 75s equity |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Rainbow, ten or higher | 25.844 | 57.747 | 17.183 | 25.070 | 66.339 |
| Rainbow, nine or lower | 5.065 | 55.006 | 10.968 | 34.026 | 60.490 |
| Two-tone | 46.543 | 55.943 | 14.549 | 29.508 | 63.218 |
| Monotone | 5.215 | 51.965 | 14.081 | 33.954 | 59.005 |
| Paired | 17.333 | 50.146 | 25.853 | 24.001 | 63.073 |

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

Relative to a random opponent, 75s changes by +19.96 points (baseline 43.68%) and 65s by -6.77 points (baseline 43.13%).

**75s and 65s 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 | 63.641 | 43.676 | +19.965 | 1.45712 |
| 75s, rainbow, ten or higher | 66.339 | 43.676 | +22.663 | 1.51889 |
| 75s, rainbow, nine or lower | 60.490 | 43.676 | +16.814 | 1.38497 |
| 75s, two-tone | 63.218 | 43.676 | +19.542 | 1.44743 |
| 75s, monotone | 59.005 | 43.676 | +15.329 | 1.35097 |
| 75s, paired | 63.073 | 43.676 | +19.397 | 1.44411 |
| 65s, all flops | 36.359 | 43.133 | -6.774 | 0.84295 |
| 65s, rainbow, ten or higher | 33.661 | 43.133 | -9.472 | 0.78040 |
| 65s, rainbow, nine or lower | 39.510 | 43.133 | -3.623 | 0.91600 |
| 65s, two-tone | 36.782 | 43.133 | -6.351 | 0.85276 |
| 65s, monotone | 40.995 | 43.133 | -2.138 | 0.95043 |
| 65s, paired | 36.927 | 43.133 | -6.206 | 0.85612 |

## Does a shared suit matter?

Suits do not split this matchup, because no legal deal has the hands holding the same suit.

**75s against 65s by suit overlap, in percent**

| Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | 75s wins | Ties | 65s wins | 75s equity |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Share a suit | 0 | 0.00 | not possible | not possible | not possible | not possible |
| No shared suit | 12 | 100.00 | 55.150 | 16.983 | 27.867 | 63.641 |

## How often this matchup comes up

You will meet this exact matchup 0.0015% of the time in a random heads-up deal: 24 of 1,624,350, counting either seat order.

## A worked example

To see what the equity is worth, imagine $100 each in a $200 pot. 75s is worth $127.28 on average (+$27.28); 65s is worth $72.72 (-$27.28).

Out of 1,000 deals you should see around 551 outright wins for 75s, 279 for 65s, and 170 split pots.

## The same matchup from the other side

Read it from the other side: 65s against 75s is the same matchup with the numbers swapped, so 65s holds 36.36% and 75s holds 63.64%. That address sends you back to this page.

## Keep exploring

7s5s against 6h5h is a ready-made deal for the calculator, with no suit in common between the hands. The neighboring matchups below replace one hand with another of similar strength.

- [Open 7s5s against 6h5h in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=7s5s&p2=6h5h)
- [75s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/75s.md)
- [65s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/65s.md)
- [75s vs 54s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/75s-vs-54s.md)
- [75s vs 64s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/75s-vs-64s.md)
- [76s vs 65s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/76s-vs-65s.md)
- [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md)

## How this was computed

Nothing here is simulated. The 12 deals of 75s against 65s fall into a few suit patterns, each dealt against all 1,712,304 boards, with both best five-card hands compared on every board. Ties give each hand half a win, and the flop rows count a board under each of its ten flops.

Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used.

## Related

- [75s vs 54s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/75s-vs-54s.md)
- [75s vs 64s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/75s-vs-64s.md)
- [76s vs 65s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/76s-vs-65s.md)