A4s vs 75s: preflop equity

Dealt all in against each other, A4s takes 57.57% of the pot on average and 75s takes the other 42.43%.

A4s

57.57%

Wins 57.30%, ties 0.55%

75s

42.43%

Wins 42.15%, ties 0.55%

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

A4s against 75s: the numbers

Exact preflop results for A4s against 75s, in percent
HandWinsTiesLosesEquity
A4s57.2980.55042.15257.573
75s42.1520.55057.29842.427

Two suited hands meet here: A4s against 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. 0.55% of boards are ties, so the equity of each hand is its win rate plus half of that.

By strength against a random hand, A4s holds place 35 of 169 and 75s holds place 124.

Boards behind the percentages: 27,396,864 counted in all
HandBoards won, aboutBoards tied, aboutBoards lost, about
A4s15,698,000151,00011,548,000
75s11,548,000151,00015,698,000

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.

A4s against 75s read as odds
HandEquity as odds (to 1)Wins one deal inLoses one deal inPot odds needed to call (to 1)
A4s1.3571.7452.3720.737
75s0.7372.3721.7451.357

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. A4s does best on paired flops, at 63.14%, and worst on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower), at 37.94%. 75s is ahead on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower), even though it trails A4s when every flop is counted.

A4s against 75s by flop texture, in percent
FlopShare of flopsA4s winsTies75s winsA4s equity
Rainbow, ten or higher25.22060.9760.25838.76661.105
Rainbow, nine or lower5.68937.5830.71361.70437.940
Two-tone46.72756.1670.30943.52456.321
Monotone5.27353.1563.47243.37254.892
Paired17.09162.8030.68236.51563.144

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

Relative to a random opponent, A4s changes by -1.46 points (baseline 59.03%) and 75s by -1.25 points (baseline 43.68%).

A4s and 75s here compared with each against a random hand, in percent
CaseEquity hereAgainst a random handChange in pointsTimes the random-hand equity
A4s, all flops57.57359.034-1.4610.97525
A4s, rainbow, ten or higher61.10559.034+2.0711.03508
A4s, rainbow, nine or lower37.94059.034-21.0940.64268
A4s, two-tone56.32159.034-2.7130.95404
A4s, monotone54.89259.034-4.1420.92984
A4s, paired63.14459.034+4.1101.06962
75s, all flops42.42743.676-1.2490.97140
75s, rainbow, ten or higher38.89543.676-4.7810.89053
75s, rainbow, nine or lower62.06043.676+18.3841.42092
75s, two-tone43.67943.676+0.0031.00007
75s, monotone45.10843.676+1.4321.03279
75s, paired36.85643.676-6.8200.84385

Does a shared suit matter?

Split by suits, the deals give A4s 59.51% when the hands overlap in a suit and 56.93% when they do not. A4s does better with a shared suit, by 2.58 points.

A4s against 75s by suit overlap, in percent
DealsSpecific dealsShare of dealsA4s winsTies75s winsA4s equity
Share a suit425.0059.1920.63140.17759.508
No shared suit1275.0056.6660.52342.81156.927

How often this matchup comes up

The class pair covers 16 combinations of specific cards in a fixed seat order, 0.0010% of 1,624,350, and 32 (0.0020%) in either order.

A worked example

Say each player puts $100 in before the flop, making a $200 pot. On average A4s takes back $115.14 of it, which is $15.14 more than it put in, and 75s takes back $84.86, $15.14 less than it put in.

Per 1,000 deals: A4s wins about 573, 75s wins about 422, and about 5 end in a split pot.

The same matchup from the other side

The reversed view, 75s against A4s, shows 42.43% for 75s and 57.57% for A4s. It is the same count, so it redirects here.

As4s 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

The figures are counted, not estimated: 1,712,304 boards for every suit pattern of the 16 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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