A6s
62.90%
Wins 62.60%, ties 0.59%
43s
37.10%
Wins 36.81%, ties 0.59%
A6s against 43s: the numbers
| Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A6s | 62.601 | 0.588 | 36.811 | 62.895 |
| 43s | 36.811 | 0.588 | 62.601 | 37.105 |
This is a contest between two suited hands, A6s and 43s. The two hands share no rank, which makes this a pure matchup of card strength, straight chances and flush chances.
The lead is steady rather than large, and the flop still has plenty of say in who wins. A split pot comes up on 0.59% of boards, so the wins and the equity differ by half of that.
Ranked by equity against a random hand, A6s is number 31 of the 169 starting hands and 43s is number 150.
| Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about |
|---|---|---|---|
| A6s | 17,151,000 | 161,000 | 10,085,000 |
| 43s | 10,085,000 | 161,000 | 17,151,000 |
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.
| Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A6s | 1.695 | 1.597 | 2.717 | 0.590 |
| 43s | 0.590 | 2.717 | 1.597 | 1.695 |
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
The flop changes the picture. A6s does best on paired flops, at 66.52%, and worst on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower), at 48.84%. 43s is ahead on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower), even though it trails A6s when every flop is counted.
| Flop | Share of flops | A6s wins | Ties | 43s wins | A6s equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rainbow, ten or higher | 25.220 | 65.973 | 0.255 | 33.772 | 66.100 |
| Rainbow, nine or lower | 5.689 | 48.370 | 0.943 | 50.687 | 48.841 |
| Two-tone | 46.727 | 61.744 | 0.338 | 37.918 | 61.913 |
| Monotone | 5.273 | 57.845 | 3.659 | 38.496 | 59.675 |
| Paired | 17.091 | 66.175 | 0.694 | 33.131 | 66.522 |
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
Start from the random-hand figures, 59.91% for A6s and 38.64% for 43s. This opponent changes them by +2.99 and -1.54 points.
| Case | Equity here | Against a random hand | Change in points | Times the random-hand equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A6s, all flops | 62.895 | 59.906 | +2.989 | 1.04989 |
| A6s, rainbow, ten or higher | 66.100 | 59.906 | +6.194 | 1.10340 |
| A6s, rainbow, nine or lower | 48.841 | 59.906 | -11.065 | 0.81529 |
| A6s, two-tone | 61.913 | 59.906 | +2.007 | 1.03350 |
| A6s, monotone | 59.675 | 59.906 | -0.231 | 0.99614 |
| A6s, paired | 66.522 | 59.906 | +6.616 | 1.11044 |
| 43s, all flops | 37.105 | 38.642 | -1.537 | 0.96022 |
| 43s, rainbow, ten or higher | 33.900 | 38.642 | -4.742 | 0.87728 |
| 43s, rainbow, nine or lower | 51.159 | 38.642 | +12.517 | 1.32392 |
| 43s, two-tone | 38.087 | 38.642 | -0.555 | 0.98564 |
| 43s, monotone | 40.325 | 38.642 | +1.683 | 1.04355 |
| 43s, paired | 33.478 | 38.642 | -5.164 | 0.86636 |
Does a shared suit matter?
Split by suits, the deals give A6s 65.28% when the hands overlap in a suit and 62.10% when they do not. A6s does better with a shared suit, by 3.18 points.
| Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | A6s wins | Ties | 43s wins | A6s equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Share a suit | 4 | 25.00 | 64.952 | 0.661 | 34.387 | 65.283 |
| No shared suit | 12 | 75.00 | 61.818 | 0.563 | 37.619 | 62.099 |
How often this matchup comes up
Counting specific cards, A6s against 43s appears in 16 of the 1,624,350 ordered heads-up deals (0.0010%), and in 32 when the seats are swapped too (0.0020%).
A worked example
With $100 from each side, the $200 pot is split on average as $125.80 for A6s and $74.20 for 43s; the first side gains $25.80 per all-in and the second gives up $25.80.
Think in thousands: about 626 of 1,000 go to A6s, about 368 go to 43s, and about 6 are chopped.
The same matchup from the other side
43s against A6s adds nothing new: it is 37.10% for 43s and 62.90% for A6s, the same figures reversed.
Keep exploring
As6s against 4h3h 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 A6s against 43s, 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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