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title: "A9s vs 75s: preflop equity"
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summary: "A9s is a big favorite over 75s before the flop: 62.51% to 37.49% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit."
related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a9s-vs-65s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a9s-vs-54s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ato-vs-75s.md"]
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# A9s vs 75s: preflop equity

A9s is a big favorite over 75s before the flop: 62.51% to 37.49% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit.

Before any board card is dealt, A9s holds 62.51% equity against 75s, which leaves 75s with 37.49%.

## A9s against 75s: the numbers

**Exact preflop results for A9s against 75s, in percent**

| Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| A9s | 62.262 | 0.503 | 37.235 | 62.514 |
| 75s | 37.235 | 0.503 | 62.262 | 37.486 |

Both hands are suited hands: A9s and 75s. The two hands share no rank, which makes this a pure matchup of card strength, straight chances and flush chances.

That is a modest edge, the kind that shows up over many hands and is easy to miss in one. Ties are 0.50% of the outcomes here; each tied board gives both hands half the pot.

In the ranking of all 169 starting hands, A9s is number 18 and 75s is number 124.

**Boards behind the percentages: 27,396,864 counted in all**

| Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| A9s | 17,058,000 | 138,000 | 10,201,000 |
| 75s | 10,201,000 | 138,000 | 17,058,000 |

Exact total: 16 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.

**A9s against 75s read as odds**

| Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| A9s | 1.668 | 1.606 | 2.686 | 0.600 |
| 75s | 0.600 | 2.686 | 1.606 | 1.668 |

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

Rainbow flops topped by a ten or better are the best for A9s (66.40%); low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) are the worst (45.87%). Watch for low rainbow flops (nine high or lower): on those flops 75s holds the better equity.

**A9s against 75s by flop texture, in percent**

| Flop | Share of flops | A9s wins | Ties | 75s wins | A9s equity |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Rainbow, ten or higher | 25.220 | 66.284 | 0.225 | 33.491 | 66.396 |
| Rainbow, nine or lower | 5.689 | 45.600 | 0.547 | 53.853 | 45.873 |
| Two-tone | 46.727 | 61.594 | 0.259 | 38.147 | 61.723 |
| Monotone | 5.273 | 57.912 | 3.436 | 38.652 | 59.630 |
| Paired | 17.091 | 65.045 | 0.661 | 34.294 | 65.376 |

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

The table below sets each hand against its own random-hand baseline: a change of -0.27 points for A9s, from 62.78%, and -6.19 for 75s, from 43.68%.

**A9s and 75s 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 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| A9s, all flops | 62.514 | 62.781 | -0.267 | 0.99575 |
| A9s, rainbow, ten or higher | 66.396 | 62.781 | +3.615 | 1.05758 |
| A9s, rainbow, nine or lower | 45.873 | 62.781 | -16.908 | 0.73068 |
| A9s, two-tone | 61.723 | 62.781 | -1.058 | 0.98315 |
| A9s, monotone | 59.630 | 62.781 | -3.151 | 0.94981 |
| A9s, paired | 65.376 | 62.781 | +2.595 | 1.04133 |
| 75s, all flops | 37.486 | 43.676 | -6.190 | 0.85827 |
| 75s, rainbow, ten or higher | 33.604 | 43.676 | -10.072 | 0.76939 |
| 75s, rainbow, nine or lower | 54.127 | 43.676 | +10.451 | 1.23928 |
| 75s, two-tone | 38.277 | 43.676 | -5.399 | 0.87639 |
| 75s, monotone | 40.370 | 43.676 | -3.306 | 0.92431 |
| 75s, paired | 34.624 | 43.676 | -9.052 | 0.79275 |

## Does a shared suit matter?

Looking only at deals where the hands share a suit, A9s has 64.81%; looking only at deals where they do not, 61.75%. A9s does better with a shared suit, by 3.06 points.

**A9s against 75s by suit overlap, in percent**

| Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | A9s wins | Ties | 75s wins | A9s equity |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Share a suit | 4 | 25.00 | 64.517 | 0.580 | 34.903 | 64.807 |
| No shared suit | 12 | 75.00 | 61.511 | 0.477 | 38.012 | 61.749 |

## How often this matchup comes up

Exactly 16 specific deals fit this matchup in one seat order, which is 0.0010% of 1,624,350; both orders together give 32, or 0.0020%.

## A worked example

Put $100 each into a $200 pot and deal every board once: A9s averages $125.02 back, ahead of its $100 by $25.02, while 75s averages $74.98, short of its $100 by $25.02.

Over a long run, 1,000 deals split into about 623 for A9s, 372 for 75s and 5 tied.

## The same matchup from the other side

Swap the hands and you get 75s with 37.49% against A9s with 62.51%. We keep one page per matchup, with the better-ranked hand first.

## Keep exploring

As9s against 7h5h 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.

- [Open As9s against 7h5h in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=As9s&p2=7h5h)
- [A9s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/a9s.md)
- [75s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/75s.md)
- [A9s vs 65s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a9s-vs-65s.md)
- [A9s vs 54s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a9s-vs-54s.md)
- [ATo vs 75s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ato-vs-75s.md)
- [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md)

## How this was computed

All 1,712,304 five-card boards are dealt for every suit pattern among the 16 specific deals of A9s against 75s, 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.

## Related

- [A9s vs 65s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a9s-vs-65s.md)
- [A9s vs 54s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a9s-vs-54s.md)
- [ATo vs 75s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ato-vs-75s.md)