A6s
55.60%
Wins 55.37%, ties 0.48%
J9s
44.40%
Wins 44.15%, ties 0.48%
A6s against J9s: the numbers
| Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A6s | 55.366 | 0.475 | 44.159 | 55.604 |
| J9s | 44.159 | 0.475 | 55.366 | 44.396 |
A6s meets J9s, and both are suited hands. The two hands share no rank, which makes this a pure matchup of card strength, straight chances and flush chances.
A6s is ahead, but J9s is far from dead: it takes 441 of every 1,000 deals outright. A split pot comes up on 0.48% of boards, so the wins and the equity differ by half of that.
Place 31 of 169 belongs to A6s and place 55 belongs to J9s in the ranking against a random hand.
| Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about |
|---|---|---|---|
| A6s | 15,169,000 | 130,000 | 12,098,000 |
| J9s | 12,098,000 | 130,000 | 15,169,000 |
The total is exact: 16 specific deals times 1,712,304 boards. The three counts are approximate, worked out from the percentages to five decimals and 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A6s | 1.252 | 1.806 | 2.265 | 0.798 |
| J9s | 0.798 | 2.265 | 1.806 | 1.252 |
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
If you know the kind of flop that came, the numbers shift: A6s holds 61.20% on paired flops and 53.50% on monotone flops. A6s stays ahead on all five textures.
| Flop | Share of flops | A6s wins | Ties | J9s wins | A6s equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rainbow, ten or higher | 24.543 | 54.532 | 0.138 | 45.330 | 54.601 |
| Rainbow, nine or lower | 6.366 | 54.567 | 0.701 | 44.732 | 54.918 |
| Two-tone | 46.727 | 54.298 | 0.231 | 45.471 | 54.413 |
| Monotone | 5.273 | 51.801 | 3.397 | 44.802 | 53.499 |
| Paired | 17.091 | 60.883 | 0.641 | 38.476 | 61.204 |
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
Each hand has a baseline against a random hand: 59.91% for A6s, 55.66% for J9s. Here the change is -4.31 and -11.26 points.
| Case | Equity here | Against a random hand | Change in points | Times the random-hand equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A6s, all flops | 55.604 | 59.906 | -4.302 | 0.92819 |
| A6s, rainbow, ten or higher | 54.601 | 59.906 | -5.305 | 0.91144 |
| A6s, rainbow, nine or lower | 54.918 | 59.906 | -4.988 | 0.91674 |
| A6s, two-tone | 54.413 | 59.906 | -5.493 | 0.90831 |
| A6s, monotone | 53.499 | 59.906 | -6.407 | 0.89305 |
| A6s, paired | 61.204 | 59.906 | +1.298 | 1.02167 |
| J9s, all flops | 44.396 | 55.662 | -11.266 | 0.79760 |
| J9s, rainbow, ten or higher | 45.399 | 55.662 | -10.263 | 0.81562 |
| J9s, rainbow, nine or lower | 45.082 | 55.662 | -10.580 | 0.80992 |
| J9s, two-tone | 45.587 | 55.662 | -10.075 | 0.81900 |
| J9s, monotone | 46.501 | 55.662 | -9.161 | 0.83542 |
| J9s, paired | 38.796 | 55.662 | -16.866 | 0.69699 |
Does a shared suit matter?
The suit split reads 57.29% for A6s with a shared suit and 55.04% without one. A6s does better with a shared suit, by 2.25 points.
| Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | A6s wins | Ties | J9s wins | A6s equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Share a suit | 4 | 25.00 | 57.018 | 0.552 | 42.430 | 57.294 |
| No shared suit | 12 | 75.00 | 54.816 | 0.449 | 44.735 | 55.040 |
How often this matchup comes up
The class pair covers 16 combinations of specific cards in a fixed seat order, 0.0010% of 1,624,350, and 32 (0.0020%) in either order.
A worked example
A $100 all-in from each player makes a $200 pot, and the exact equity says A6s gets $111.20 of it on average and J9s gets $88.80.
Run 1,000 deals and the tally comes out near 554 for A6s, 441 for J9s and 5 ties.
The same matchup from the other side
The reversed view, J9s against A6s, shows 44.40% for J9s and 55.60% for A6s. It is the same count, so it redirects here.
Keep exploring
As6s against Jh9h 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
Method: exact enumeration. The 16 specific deals are grouped by suit pattern, each is run against all 1,712,304 boards, and both seven-card hands are scored. Equity adds half of every tie, and flop textures are tallied over the ten flops inside each board.
Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used.
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