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title: "A5s vs 22: preflop equity"
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summary: "A5s vs 22 is close to a coin flip before the flop: 50.10% to 49.90% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit."
related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a5s-vs-97s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a5s-vs-87s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a6s-vs-22.md"]
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# A5s vs 22: preflop equity

A5s vs 22 is close to a coin flip before the flop: 50.10% to 49.90% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit.

Averaged over every possible board, A5s is ahead of 22 by 0.20 points of equity, 50.10% to 49.90%.

## A5s against 22: the numbers

**Exact preflop results for A5s against 22, in percent**

| Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| A5s | 49.762 | 0.673 | 49.565 | 50.098 |
| 22 | 49.565 | 0.673 | 49.762 | 49.902 |

The first hand is a suited hand; the second is a pocket pair. This is a pair against two overcards, a matchup that stays close because the other hand only needs one of its ranks to appear.

That is a slim edge: neither hand is far ahead. A split pot comes up on 0.67% of boards, so the wins and the equity differ by half of that.

Among the 169 starting hands, A5s is number 30 and 22 is number 87 by strength against a random hand.

**Boards behind the percentages: 41,095,296 counted in all**

| Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| A5s | 20,450,000 | 277,000 | 20,369,000 |
| 22 | 20,369,000 | 277,000 | 20,450,000 |

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.

**A5s 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) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| A5s | 1.004 | 2.010 | 2.018 | 0.996 |
| 22 | 0.996 | 2.018 | 2.010 | 1.004 |

The last column is the smallest pot odds, written as a pot-to-call ratio, at which a call breaks even with this equity.

## Who is ahead on which flops

If you know the kind of flop that came, the numbers shift: A5s holds 50.85% on two-tone flops and 46.26% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower). Rainbow flops topped by a ten or better and low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) favor 22, the hand that is behind overall.

**A5s against 22 by flop texture, in percent**

| Flop | Share of flops | A5s wins | Ties | 22 wins | A5s equity |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Rainbow, ten or higher | 25.220 | 49.041 | 0.291 | 50.668 | 49.186 |
| Rainbow, nine or lower | 5.689 | 45.638 | 1.241 | 53.121 | 46.258 |
| Two-tone | 46.545 | 50.634 | 0.427 | 48.939 | 50.847 |
| Monotone | 5.212 | 48.376 | 3.777 | 47.847 | 50.264 |
| Paired | 17.334 | 50.239 | 0.770 | 48.991 | 50.624 |

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

Against one random hand instead, A5s holds 59.92% and 22 holds 50.33%. Facing each other changes that by -9.82 points for A5s and -0.43 points for 22.

**A5s 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 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| A5s, all flops | 50.098 | 59.923 | -9.825 | 0.83604 |
| A5s, rainbow, ten or higher | 49.186 | 59.923 | -10.737 | 0.82082 |
| A5s, rainbow, nine or lower | 46.258 | 59.923 | -13.665 | 0.77196 |
| A5s, two-tone | 50.847 | 59.923 | -9.076 | 0.84854 |
| A5s, monotone | 50.264 | 59.923 | -9.659 | 0.83881 |
| A5s, paired | 50.624 | 59.923 | -9.299 | 0.84482 |
| 22, all flops | 49.902 | 50.334 | -0.432 | 0.99142 |
| 22, rainbow, ten or higher | 50.814 | 50.334 | +0.480 | 1.00954 |
| 22, rainbow, nine or lower | 53.742 | 50.334 | +3.408 | 1.06771 |
| 22, two-tone | 49.153 | 50.334 | -1.181 | 0.97654 |
| 22, monotone | 49.736 | 50.334 | -0.598 | 0.98812 |
| 22, paired | 49.376 | 50.334 | -0.958 | 0.98097 |

## Does a shared suit matter?

Suit overlap shows up in the numbers. With a suit in common A5s has 49.93% equity, and with none in common it has 50.26%. A5s does better with no shared suit, by 0.33 points.

**A5s against 22 by suit overlap, in percent**

| Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | A5s wins | Ties | 22 wins | A5s equity |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Share a suit | 12 | 50.00 | 49.587 | 0.692 | 49.721 | 49.933 |
| No shared suit | 12 | 50.00 | 49.936 | 0.654 | 49.410 | 50.263 |

## How often this matchup comes up

The class pair covers 24 combinations of specific cards in a fixed seat order, 0.0015% of 1,624,350, and 48 (0.0030%) in either order.

## A worked example

To see what the equity is worth, imagine $100 each in a $200 pot. A5s is worth $100.20 on average (+$0.20); 22 is worth $99.80 (-$0.20).

Think in thousands: about 497 of 1,000 go to A5s, about 496 go to 22, and about 7 are chopped.

## The same matchup from the other side

The reversed view, 22 against A5s, shows 49.90% for 22 and 50.10% for A5s. It is the same count, so it redirects here.

## Keep exploring

As5s against 2h2d 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 As5s against 2h2d in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=As5s&p2=2h2d)
- [A5s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/a5s.md)
- [22 combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/22.md)
- [A5s vs 97s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a5s-vs-97s.md)
- [A5s vs 87s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a5s-vs-87s.md)
- [A6s vs 22](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a6s-vs-22.md)
- [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md)

## 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.

## Related

- [A5s vs 97s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a5s-vs-97s.md)
- [A5s vs 87s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a5s-vs-87s.md)
- [A6s vs 22: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a6s-vs-22.md)