--- title: "A2s vs 22: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a2s-vs-22.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a2s-vs-22" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "22 is a big favorite over A2s before the flop: 62.04% to 37.96% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a2s-vs-97s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a2s-vs-87s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qto-vs-22.md"] --- # A2s vs 22: preflop equity 22 is a big favorite over A2s before the flop: 62.04% to 37.96% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Counting every board, the equity split is 62.04% for 22 and 37.96% for A2s, so 22 leads by 24.08 points. ## A2s against 22: the numbers **Exact preflop results for A2s against 22, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | A2s | 37.176 | 1.576 | 61.248 | 37.964 | | 22 | 61.248 | 1.576 | 37.176 | 62.036 | We compare a suited hand with a pocket pair. One hand holds a card of the same rank as the pair, which removes a card the pair needs and makes the pair a bigger favorite. That is a modest edge, the kind that shows up over many hands and is easy to miss in one. Ties are 1.58% of the outcomes here; each tied board gives both hands half the pot. A2s ranks number 46 of 169 starting hands, and 22 ranks number 87, by equity against a random hand. **Boards behind the percentages: 20,547,648 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | A2s | 7,639,000 | 324,000 | 12,585,000 | | 22 | 12,585,000 | 324,000 | 7,639,000 | The board total is exact, 12 deals at 1,712,304 boards each. Won, tied and lost counts are rounded to the nearest thousand from the five-decimal percentages. **A2s against 22 read as odds** | Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | A2s | 0.612 | 2.690 | 1.633 | 1.634 | | 22 | 1.634 | 1.633 | 2.690 | 0.612 | 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 The flop changes the picture. 22 does best on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower), at 76.69%, and worst on paired flops, at 58.52%. 22 stays ahead on all five textures, but the swing between them is large, so how the flop looks matters a great deal. **A2s against 22 by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | A2s wins | Ties | 22 wins | A2s equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 25.197 | 37.045 | 0.952 | 62.003 | 37.521 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 5.585 | 21.307 | 4.008 | 74.685 | 23.311 | | Two-tone | 46.236 | 37.607 | 1.363 | 61.030 | 38.288 | | Monotone | 5.151 | 38.865 | 4.124 | 57.011 | 40.927 | | Paired | 17.831 | 40.728 | 1.513 | 57.759 | 41.485 | A rainbow flop shows three suits, a two-tone flop repeats one suit, a monotone flop is a single suit, and a paired flop repeats a rank. ## Compared with a random hand Start from the random-hand figures, 57.38% for A2s and 50.33% for 22. This opponent changes them by -19.42 and +11.71 points. **A2s and 22 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | A2s, all flops | 37.964 | 57.379 | -19.415 | 0.66164 | | A2s, rainbow, ten or higher | 37.521 | 57.379 | -19.858 | 0.65392 | | A2s, rainbow, nine or lower | 23.311 | 57.379 | -34.068 | 0.40626 | | A2s, two-tone | 38.288 | 57.379 | -19.091 | 0.66728 | | A2s, monotone | 40.927 | 57.379 | -16.452 | 0.71327 | | A2s, paired | 41.485 | 57.379 | -15.894 | 0.72300 | | 22, all flops | 62.036 | 50.334 | +11.702 | 1.23249 | | 22, rainbow, ten or higher | 62.479 | 50.334 | +12.145 | 1.24129 | | 22, rainbow, nine or lower | 76.689 | 50.334 | +26.355 | 1.52360 | | 22, two-tone | 61.712 | 50.334 | +11.378 | 1.22605 | | 22, monotone | 59.073 | 50.334 | +8.739 | 1.17362 | | 22, paired | 58.515 | 50.334 | +8.181 | 1.16253 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Every legal deal of A2s against 22 leaves the hands with no suit in common, so the suit split does not apply here. **A2s against 22 by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | A2s wins | Ties | 22 wins | A2s equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 0 | 0.00 | not possible | not possible | not possible | not possible | | No shared suit | 12 | 100.00 | 37.176 | 1.576 | 61.248 | 37.964 | ## How often this matchup comes up Out of 1,624,350 ways to deal two seats two cards each, 12 are A2s in one seat and 22 in the other (0.0007%); with the seats swapped too, 24 (0.0015%). ## A worked example Try it with money: two players each put in $100 and the whole board runs out every possible way. 22 averages $124.08 from the $200, up $24.08; A2s averages $75.92, down $24.08. Think in thousands: about 612 of 1,000 go to 22, about 372 go to A2s, and about 16 are chopped. ## The same matchup from the other side The reversed view, 22 against A2s, shows 62.04% for 22 and 37.96% for A2s. It is the same count, so it redirects here. ## Keep exploring Try As2s against 2h2d 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 As2s against 2h2d in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=As2s&p2=2h2d) - [A2s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/a2s.md) - [22 combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/22.md) - [A2s vs 97s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a2s-vs-97s.md) - [A2s vs 87s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a2s-vs-87s.md) - [QTo vs 22](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qto-vs-22.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed Method: exact enumeration. The 12 specific deals are grouped by suit pattern, each is run against all 1,712,304 boards, and both seven-card hands are scored. Equity adds half of every tie, and flop textures are tallied over the ten flops inside each board. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [A2s vs 97s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a2s-vs-97s.md) - [A2s vs 87s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a2s-vs-87s.md) - [QTo vs 22: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qto-vs-22.md)