--- title: "A6s vs 44: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a6s-vs-44.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a6s-vs-44" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "A6s vs 44 is close to a coin flip before the flop: 47.35% to 52.65% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a6s-vs-j9s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a6s-vs-jto.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kto-vs-44.md"] --- # A6s vs 44: preflop equity A6s vs 44 is close to a coin flip before the flop: 47.35% to 52.65% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. If 44 and A6s get all the chips in before the flop, 44 owns 52.65% of the pot in the long run and A6s owns 47.35%. ## A6s against 44: the numbers **Exact preflop results for A6s against 44, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | A6s | 47.082 | 0.533 | 52.385 | 47.349 | | 44 | 52.385 | 0.533 | 47.082 | 52.651 | 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. With only 5.30 points between them, the board decides this matchup far more than the cards in hand. 0.53% of boards are ties, so the equity of each hand is its win rate plus half of that. A6s ranks number 31 of 169 starting hands, and 44 ranks number 48, by equity against a random hand. **Boards behind the percentages: 41,095,296 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | A6s | 19,348,000 | 219,000 | 21,528,000 | | 44 | 21,528,000 | 219,000 | 19,348,000 | 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. **A6s against 44 read as odds** | Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | A6s | 0.899 | 2.124 | 1.909 | 1.112 | | 44 | 1.112 | 1.909 | 2.124 | 0.899 | 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 44's equity moves by 9.12 points, from 51.53% on two-tone flops to 60.65% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower). 44 stays ahead on all five textures. **A6s against 44 by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | A6s wins | Ties | 44 wins | A6s equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 25.220 | 47.468 | 0.265 | 52.267 | 47.600 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 5.689 | 38.911 | 0.873 | 60.216 | 39.347 | | Two-tone | 46.545 | 48.295 | 0.346 | 51.359 | 48.468 | | Monotone | 5.212 | 46.609 | 2.832 | 50.559 | 48.025 | | Paired | 17.334 | 46.089 | 0.621 | 53.290 | 46.399 | Read the flop types this way: rainbow has three suits, two-tone has two cards of one suit, monotone has three, and paired repeats a rank. ## Compared with a random hand Each hand has a baseline against a random hand: 59.91% for A6s, 57.02% for 44. Here the change is -12.56 and -4.37 points. **A6s and 44 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | A6s, all flops | 47.349 | 59.906 | -12.557 | 0.79039 | | A6s, rainbow, ten or higher | 47.600 | 59.906 | -12.306 | 0.79458 | | A6s, rainbow, nine or lower | 39.347 | 59.906 | -20.559 | 0.65681 | | A6s, two-tone | 48.468 | 59.906 | -11.438 | 0.80907 | | A6s, monotone | 48.025 | 59.906 | -11.881 | 0.80167 | | A6s, paired | 46.399 | 59.906 | -13.507 | 0.77453 | | 44, all flops | 52.651 | 57.023 | -4.372 | 0.92333 | | 44, rainbow, ten or higher | 52.400 | 57.023 | -4.623 | 0.91893 | | 44, rainbow, nine or lower | 60.653 | 57.023 | +3.630 | 1.06366 | | 44, two-tone | 51.532 | 57.023 | -5.491 | 0.90371 | | 44, monotone | 51.975 | 57.023 | -5.048 | 0.91147 | | 44, paired | 53.601 | 57.023 | -3.422 | 0.93999 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Split by suits, the deals give 44 52.83% when the hands overlap in a suit and 52.47% when they do not. 44 does better with a shared suit, by 0.36 points. **A6s against 44 by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | A6s wins | Ties | 44 wins | A6s equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 12 | 50.00 | 46.882 | 0.568 | 52.550 | 47.166 | | No shared suit | 12 | 50.00 | 47.283 | 0.498 | 52.219 | 47.532 | ## How often this matchup comes up Counting specific cards, A6s against 44 appears in 24 of the 1,624,350 ordered heads-up deals (0.0015%), and in 48 when the seats are swapped too (0.0030%). ## A worked example Take a $200 pot built from $100 each. 44's equity of 52.65% is worth $105.30, a $5.30 edge, and A6s' 47.35% is worth $94.70, which is $5.30 under its stake. Per 1,000 deals: 44 wins about 524, A6s wins about 471, and about 5 end in a split pot. ## The same matchup from the other side One page covers both views. From 44's side the equity is 52.65%, and from A6s' side it is 47.35%. ## Keep exploring Open the calculator with As6s against 4h4d 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. - [Open As6s against 4h4d in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=As6s&p2=4h4d) - [A6s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/a6s.md) - [44 combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/44.md) - [A6s vs J9s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a6s-vs-j9s.md) - [A6s vs JTo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a6s-vs-jto.md) - [KTo vs 44](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kto-vs-44.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed Nothing here is simulated. The 24 deals of A6s against 44 fall into a few suit patterns, each dealt against all 1,712,304 boards, with both best five-card hands compared on every board. Ties give each hand half a win, and the flop rows count a board under each of its ten flops. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [A6s vs J9s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a6s-vs-j9s.md) - [A6s vs JTo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a6s-vs-jto.md) - [KTo vs 44: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kto-vs-44.md)