A6s vs 33: preflop equity

The exact count puts 33 at 51.63% and A6s at 48.37% when the two hands see all five board cards.

A6s

48.37%

Wins 48.07%, ties 0.58%

33

51.63%

Wins 51.35%, ties 0.58%

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

A6s against 33: the numbers

Exact preflop results for A6s against 33, in percent
HandWinsTiesLosesEquity
A6s48.0740.58451.34248.366
3351.3420.58448.07451.634

A6s is a suited hand and 33 is a pocket pair. A pair against two higher cards is the classic race: the pair is usually a small favorite or close to even, and each overcard that pairs is a way to take the lead.

This is close to even money, with 33 a little ahead. A split pot comes up on 0.58% of boards, so the wins and the equity differ by half of that.

A6s ranks number 31 of 169 starting hands, and 33 ranks number 66, by equity against a random hand.

Boards behind the percentages: 41,095,296 counted in all
HandBoards won, aboutBoards tied, aboutBoards lost, about
A6s19,756,000240,00021,099,000
3321,099,000240,00019,756,000

Exact total: 24 deals times 1,712,304 boards. The other three counts come from the five-decimal percentages and are rounded to the nearest thousand, so read them as approximate.

A6s against 33 read as odds
HandEquity as odds (to 1)Wins one deal inLoses one deal inPot odds needed to call (to 1)
A6s0.9372.0801.9481.068
331.0681.9482.0800.937

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

Across the five flop textures 33's equity moves by 7.54 points, from 50.75% on two-tone flops to 58.29% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower). 33 stays ahead on all five textures.

A6s against 33 by flop texture, in percent
FlopShare of flopsA6s winsTies33 winsA6s equity
Rainbow, ten or higher25.22047.9690.26551.76648.101
Rainbow, nine or lower5.68941.2031.01757.78041.712
Two-tone46.54549.0670.37050.56349.252
Monotone5.21247.1623.19749.64148.760
Paired17.33448.0890.69351.21848.435

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, A6s changes by -11.54 points (baseline 59.91%) and 33 by -2.06 points (baseline 53.69%).

A6s and 33 here compared with each against a random hand, in percent
CaseEquity hereAgainst a random handChange in pointsTimes the random-hand equity
A6s, all flops48.36659.906-11.5400.80736
A6s, rainbow, ten or higher48.10159.906-11.8050.80294
A6s, rainbow, nine or lower41.71259.906-18.1940.69629
A6s, two-tone49.25259.906-10.6540.82215
A6s, monotone48.76059.906-11.1460.81394
A6s, paired48.43559.906-11.4710.80852
33, all flops51.63453.693-2.0590.96165
33, rainbow, ten or higher51.89953.693-1.7940.96659
33, rainbow, nine or lower58.28853.693+4.5951.08558
33, two-tone50.74853.693-2.9450.94515
33, monotone51.24053.693-2.4530.95431
33, paired51.56553.693-2.1280.96037

Does a shared suit matter?

Split by suits, the deals give 33 51.82% when the hands overlap in a suit and 51.45% when they do not. 33 does better with a shared suit, by 0.37 points.

A6s against 33 by suit overlap, in percent
DealsSpecific dealsShare of dealsA6s winsTies33 winsA6s equity
Share a suit1250.0047.8700.61251.51848.176
No shared suit1250.0048.2770.55651.16748.555

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. 33 is worth $103.26 on average (+$3.26); A6s is worth $96.74 (-$3.26).

Think in thousands: about 513 of 1,000 go to 33, about 481 go to A6s, and about 6 are chopped.

The same matchup from the other side

One page covers both views. From 33's side the equity is 51.63%, and from A6s' side it is 48.37%.

Open the calculator with As6s against 3h3d 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

Each figure is a complete count over boards. Take the 24 specific deals, group them by suit pattern, deal all 1,712,304 boards against each, and compare the two seven-card hands. Equity counts a tie as half a win; the flop rows use every one of a board's ten flops.

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

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