99
67.58%
Wins 67.39%, ties 0.38%
A6s
32.42%
Wins 32.23%, ties 0.38%
99 against A6s: the numbers
| Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 99 | 67.389 | 0.384 | 32.227 | 67.581 |
| A6s | 32.227 | 0.384 | 67.389 | 32.419 |
The first hand is a pocket pair; the second is a suited hand. The pair sits between the other hand's two cards: one is higher and one is lower, so the pair is exposed to the higher card.
That is a clear edge, 67.58% to 32.42%, but A6s still wins often enough that one hand proves nothing. Ties are 0.38% of the outcomes here; each tied board gives both hands half the pot.
For context, 99 sits at number 6 of 169 starting hands and A6s at number 31 when each is run against a random hand.
| Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about |
|---|---|---|---|
| 99 | 27,694,000 | 158,000 | 13,244,000 |
| A6s | 13,244,000 | 158,000 | 27,694,000 |
The board total is exact, 24 deals at 1,712,304 boards each. Won, tied and lost counts are rounded to the nearest thousand from the five-decimal percentages.
| Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 99 | 2.085 | 1.484 | 3.103 | 0.480 |
| A6s | 0.480 | 3.103 | 1.484 | 2.085 |
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
Break the boards down by their first three cards and 99 is strongest on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) (79.21%) and weakest on monotone flops (63.27%). 99 stays ahead on all five textures, but the swing between them is large, so how the flop looks matters a great deal.
| Flop | Share of flops | 99 wins | Ties | A6s wins | 99 equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rainbow, ten or higher | 25.220 | 66.944 | 0.165 | 32.891 | 67.026 |
| Rainbow, nine or lower | 5.689 | 78.807 | 0.797 | 20.396 | 79.205 |
| Two-tone | 46.545 | 65.867 | 0.261 | 33.872 | 65.997 |
| Monotone | 5.212 | 62.089 | 2.368 | 35.543 | 63.273 |
| Paired | 17.334 | 69.973 | 0.301 | 29.726 | 70.123 |
Flop types: rainbow means three different suits, two-tone means one suit twice, monotone means one suit three times, paired means a repeated rank.
Compared with a random hand
Against one random hand instead, 99 holds 72.06% and A6s holds 59.91%. Facing each other changes that by -4.48 points for 99 and -27.49 points for A6s.
| Case | Equity here | Against a random hand | Change in points | Times the random-hand equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 99, all flops | 67.581 | 72.057 | -4.476 | 0.93788 |
| 99, rainbow, ten or higher | 67.026 | 72.057 | -5.031 | 0.93018 |
| 99, rainbow, nine or lower | 79.205 | 72.057 | +7.148 | 1.09920 |
| 99, two-tone | 65.997 | 72.057 | -6.060 | 0.91590 |
| 99, monotone | 63.273 | 72.057 | -8.784 | 0.87810 |
| 99, paired | 70.123 | 72.057 | -1.934 | 0.97316 |
| A6s, all flops | 32.419 | 59.906 | -27.487 | 0.54116 |
| A6s, rainbow, ten or higher | 32.974 | 59.906 | -26.932 | 0.55043 |
| A6s, rainbow, nine or lower | 20.795 | 59.906 | -39.111 | 0.34713 |
| A6s, two-tone | 34.003 | 59.906 | -25.903 | 0.56761 |
| A6s, monotone | 36.727 | 59.906 | -23.179 | 0.61308 |
| A6s, paired | 29.877 | 59.906 | -30.029 | 0.49873 |
Does a shared suit matter?
Two kinds of deal exist here. In 12 of them the hands share a suit and 99 holds 67.88%. In 12 they do not, and it holds 67.29%. 99 does better with a shared suit, by 0.59 points.
| Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | 99 wins | Ties | A6s wins | 99 equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Share a suit | 12 | 50.00 | 67.661 | 0.428 | 31.911 | 67.875 |
| No shared suit | 12 | 50.00 | 67.117 | 0.341 | 32.542 | 67.288 |
How often this matchup comes up
This page stands for 24 specific-card matchups (0.0015% of 1,624,350 ordered deals), or 48 once you count the seats both ways (0.0030%).
A worked example
Try it with money: two players each put in $100 and the whole board runs out every possible way. 99 averages $135.16 from the $200, up $35.16; A6s averages $64.84, down $35.16.
Think in thousands: about 674 of 1,000 go to 99, about 322 go to A6s, and about 4 are chopped.
The same matchup from the other side
The reversed view, A6s against 99, shows 32.42% for A6s and 67.58% for 99. It is the same count, so it redirects here.
Keep exploring
Try 9s9h against Ad6d 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
The figures are counted, not estimated: 1,712,304 boards for every suit pattern of the 24 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.
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