A5s
57.30%
Wins 57.07%, ties 0.46%
T9o
42.70%
Wins 42.47%, ties 0.46%
A5s against T9o: the numbers
| Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A5s | 57.065 | 0.459 | 42.476 | 57.295 |
| T9o | 42.476 | 0.459 | 57.065 | 42.705 |
One side is a suited hand, the other is an offsuit hand. Neither hand shares a rank with the other, so this is a contest of high cards, connection and suits.
A 14.60 point lead is real, and T9o still takes about 425 of every 1,000 deals outright. Ties are part of the picture: 0.46% of boards end in a split pot, and each side counts that as half a win.
Among the 169 starting hands, A5s is number 30 and T9o is number 78 by strength against a random hand.
| Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about |
|---|---|---|---|
| A5s | 46,902,000 | 377,000 | 34,911,000 |
| T9o | 34,911,000 | 377,000 | 46,902,000 |
48 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.
| Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A5s | 1.342 | 1.752 | 2.354 | 0.745 |
| T9o | 0.745 | 2.354 | 1.752 | 1.342 |
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
Across the five flop textures A5s' equity moves by 9.99 points, from 53.25% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) to 63.24% on paired flops. A5s stays ahead on all five textures.
| Flop | Share of flops | A5s wins | Ties | T9o wins | A5s equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rainbow, ten or higher | 24.665 | 55.374 | 0.202 | 44.424 | 55.475 |
| Rainbow, nine or lower | 6.365 | 52.901 | 0.689 | 46.410 | 53.246 |
| Two-tone | 46.667 | 56.779 | 0.279 | 42.942 | 56.918 |
| Monotone | 5.212 | 53.549 | 2.379 | 44.072 | 54.738 |
| Paired | 17.091 | 62.911 | 0.649 | 36.440 | 63.236 |
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
A random hand would give A5s 59.92% and T9o 51.53%. Against each other the change is -2.62 points for A5s and -8.83 for T9o.
| Case | Equity here | Against a random hand | Change in points | Times the random-hand equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A5s, all flops | 57.295 | 59.923 | -2.628 | 0.95614 |
| A5s, rainbow, ten or higher | 55.475 | 59.923 | -4.448 | 0.92577 |
| A5s, rainbow, nine or lower | 53.246 | 59.923 | -6.677 | 0.88857 |
| A5s, two-tone | 56.918 | 59.923 | -3.005 | 0.94985 |
| A5s, monotone | 54.738 | 59.923 | -5.185 | 0.91347 |
| A5s, paired | 63.236 | 59.923 | +3.313 | 1.05529 |
| T9o, all flops | 42.705 | 51.532 | -8.827 | 0.82871 |
| T9o, rainbow, ten or higher | 44.525 | 51.532 | -7.007 | 0.86403 |
| T9o, rainbow, nine or lower | 46.754 | 51.532 | -4.778 | 0.90728 |
| T9o, two-tone | 43.082 | 51.532 | -8.450 | 0.83602 |
| T9o, monotone | 45.262 | 51.532 | -6.270 | 0.87833 |
| T9o, paired | 36.764 | 51.532 | -14.768 | 0.71342 |
Does a shared suit matter?
When the hands share a suit, A5s holds 56.94%; when they do not, it holds 57.65%. A5s does better with no shared suit, by 0.71 points.
| Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | A5s wins | Ties | T9o wins | A5s equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Share a suit | 24 | 50.00 | 56.689 | 0.502 | 42.809 | 56.940 |
| No shared suit | 24 | 50.00 | 57.442 | 0.416 | 42.142 | 57.650 |
How often this matchup comes up
You will meet this exact matchup 0.0059% of the time in a random heads-up deal: 96 of 1,624,350, counting either seat order.
A worked example
Worked example: both players commit $100, so $200 sits in the middle. Over every board, A5s' average share is $114.60 (a gain of $14.60) and T9o's is $85.40 (a loss of $14.60).
Run 1,000 deals and the tally comes out near 571 for A5s, 425 for T9o and 4 ties.
The same matchup from the other side
The mirror image, T9o against A5s, is 42.70% to 57.30%, and its address redirects to this page.
Keep exploring
Open the calculator with As5s against Th9d already entered, a deal with no shared suit, and change any card to try your own hand. The matchups after it each swap one hand for a nearby one in the ranking.
How this was computed
All 1,712,304 five-card boards are dealt for every suit pattern among the 48 specific deals of A5s against T9o, 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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