A3s vs 75s: preflop equity

Counting every board, the equity split is 56.99% for A3s and 43.01% for 75s, so A3s leads by 13.98 points.

A3s

56.99%

Wins 56.71%, ties 0.56%

75s

43.01%

Wins 42.73%, ties 0.56%

Equity counts a tie as half a win. Exact over every board.

A3s against 75s: the numbers

Exact preflop results for A3s against 75s, in percent
HandWinsTiesLosesEquity
A3s56.7110.55742.73256.989
75s42.7320.55756.71143.011

Each side holds one of the suited hands: A3s and 75s. With no overlap in ranks, every card that pairs one hand is a card that does not pair the other.

That is a modest edge, the kind that shows up over many hands and is easy to miss in one. Split pots make up 0.56% of the boards, and both equity figures count them as half a win each.

In the ranking of all 169 starting hands, A3s is number 38 and 75s is number 124.

Boards behind the percentages: 27,396,864 counted in all
HandBoards won, aboutBoards tied, aboutBoards lost, about
A3s15,537,000153,00011,707,000
75s11,707,000153,00015,537,000

The board total is exact, 16 deals at 1,712,304 boards each. Won, tied and lost counts are rounded to the nearest thousand from the five-decimal percentages.

A3s against 75s read as odds
HandEquity as odds (to 1)Wins one deal inLoses one deal inPot odds needed to call (to 1)
A3s1.3251.7632.3400.755
75s0.7552.3401.7631.325

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

A3s prefers paired flops, where it holds 62.78%, and likes low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) least, where it holds 36.23%. 75s is ahead on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower), even though it trails A3s when every flop is counted.

A3s against 75s by flop texture, in percent
FlopShare of flopsA3s winsTies75s winsA3s equity
Rainbow, ten or higher25.22060.4970.25839.24560.626
Rainbow, nine or lower5.68935.8460.76163.39336.227
Two-tone46.72755.5610.31644.12355.719
Monotone5.27352.7483.47743.77554.487
Paired17.09162.4370.68636.87762.780

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, A3s changes by -1.23 points (baseline 58.22%) and 75s by -0.67 points (baseline 43.68%).

A3s and 75s here compared with each against a random hand, in percent
CaseEquity hereAgainst a random handChange in pointsTimes the random-hand equity
A3s, all flops56.98958.220-1.2310.97886
A3s, rainbow, ten or higher60.62658.220+2.4061.04133
A3s, rainbow, nine or lower36.22758.220-21.9930.62224
A3s, two-tone55.71958.220-2.5010.95704
A3s, monotone54.48758.220-3.7330.93588
A3s, paired62.78058.220+4.5601.07832
75s, all flops43.01143.676-0.6650.98477
75s, rainbow, ten or higher39.37443.676-4.3020.90150
75s, rainbow, nine or lower63.77343.676+20.0971.46014
75s, two-tone44.28143.676+0.6051.01385
75s, monotone45.51343.676+1.8371.04206
75s, paired37.22043.676-6.4560.85218

Does a shared suit matter?

Of the deals of this matchup, 4 share a suit (A3s at 58.84%) and 12 do not (56.37%). A3s does better with a shared suit, by 2.47 points.

A3s against 75s by suit overlap, in percent
DealsSpecific dealsShare of dealsA3s winsTies75s winsA3s equity
Share a suit425.0058.5160.64040.84458.836
No shared suit1275.0056.1090.52943.36256.374

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

With $100 from each side, the $200 pot is split on average as $113.98 for A3s and $86.02 for 75s; the first side gains $13.98 per all-in and the second gives up $13.98.

Scaled to 1,000 deals, that is roughly 567 wins for A3s, 427 for 75s and 6 chopped pots.

The same matchup from the other side

75s against A3s adds nothing new: it is 43.01% for 75s and 56.99% for A3s, the same figures reversed.

As3s against 7h5h 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.

How this was computed

All 1,712,304 five-card boards are dealt for every suit pattern among the 16 specific deals of A3s against 75s, and both hands are scored on each. That is a full count, so the percentages are exact. Ties are half a win each, and each board appears once per flop it contains.

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

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