--- title: "AA vs 22: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aa-vs-22.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aa-vs-22" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "AA is a big favorite over 22 before the flop: 82.22% to 17.78% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aa-vs-97s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aa-vs-87s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-22.md"] --- # AA vs 22: preflop equity AA is a big favorite over 22 before the flop: 82.22% to 17.78% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Over all 1,712,304 boards that can follow this deal, AA finishes with 82.22% of the pot and 22 with 17.78%. ## AA against 22: the numbers **Exact preflop results for AA against 22, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AA | 81.948 | 0.537 | 17.515 | 82.217 | | 22 | 17.515 | 0.537 | 81.948 | 17.783 | Both hands are pocket pairs: AA and 22. A pair against a smaller pair is the classic crush: the smaller pair needs one of its two remaining cards to make a set. AA is a big favorite here before anyone sees a flop. A split pot comes up on 0.54% of boards, so the wins and the equity differ by half of that. AA ranks number 1 of 169 starting hands, and 22 ranks number 87, by equity against a random hand. **Boards behind the percentages: 61,642,944 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AA | 50,515,000 | 331,000 | 10,797,000 | | 22 | 10,797,000 | 331,000 | 50,515,000 | 36 specific deals times 1,712,304 boards gives the exact total. The won, tied and lost counts are approximations from the five-decimal percentages, rounded to the nearest thousand. **AA against 22 read as odds** | Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AA | 4.623 | 1.220 | 5.709 | 0.216 | | 22 | 0.216 | 5.709 | 1.220 | 4.623 | 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 If you know the kind of flop that came, the numbers shift: AA holds 87.39% on paired flops and 70.86% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower). AA stays ahead on all five textures, but the swing between them is large, so how the flop looks matters a great deal. **AA against 22 by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | AA wins | Ties | 22 wins | AA equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 24.595 | 84.434 | 0.287 | 15.279 | 84.578 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 6.314 | 70.127 | 1.456 | 28.417 | 70.855 | | Two-tone | 46.363 | 80.904 | 0.503 | 18.593 | 81.156 | | Monotone | 5.152 | 75.405 | 2.709 | 21.886 | 76.759 | | Paired | 17.576 | 87.389 | 0.007 | 12.604 | 87.392 | 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 Start from the random-hand figures, 85.20% for AA and 50.33% for 22. This opponent changes them by -2.98 and -32.55 points. **AA and 22 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AA, all flops | 82.217 | 85.204 | -2.987 | 0.96494 | | AA, rainbow, ten or higher | 84.578 | 85.204 | -0.626 | 0.99265 | | AA, rainbow, nine or lower | 70.855 | 85.204 | -14.349 | 0.83159 | | AA, two-tone | 81.156 | 85.204 | -4.048 | 0.95249 | | AA, monotone | 76.759 | 85.204 | -8.445 | 0.90088 | | AA, paired | 87.392 | 85.204 | +2.188 | 1.02568 | | 22, all flops | 17.783 | 50.334 | -32.551 | 0.35330 | | 22, rainbow, ten or higher | 15.422 | 50.334 | -34.912 | 0.30639 | | 22, rainbow, nine or lower | 29.145 | 50.334 | -21.189 | 0.57903 | | 22, two-tone | 18.844 | 50.334 | -31.490 | 0.37438 | | 22, monotone | 23.241 | 50.334 | -27.093 | 0.46174 | | 22, paired | 12.608 | 50.334 | -37.726 | 0.25049 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Does suit overlap move the numbers? AA has 82.35% when the hands share a suit and 81.55% when they do not. AA does better with a shared suit, by 0.80 points. **AA against 22 by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | AA wins | Ties | 22 wins | AA equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 30 | 83.33 | 82.078 | 0.544 | 17.378 | 82.350 | | No shared suit | 6 | 16.67 | 81.298 | 0.500 | 18.202 | 81.548 | ## How often this matchup comes up The class pair covers 36 combinations of specific cards in a fixed seat order, 0.0022% of 1,624,350, and 72 (0.0044%) in either order. ## A worked example Put $100 each into a $200 pot and deal every board once: AA averages $164.44 back, ahead of its $100 by $64.44, while 22 averages $35.56, short of its $100 by $64.44. Think in thousands: about 820 of 1,000 go to AA, about 175 go to 22, and about 5 are chopped. ## The same matchup from the other side Read it from the other side: 22 against AA is the same matchup with the numbers swapped, so 22 holds 17.78% and AA holds 82.22%. That address sends you back to this page. ## Keep exploring Open the calculator with AsAh against 2d2c 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 AsAh against 2d2c in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=AsAh&p2=2d2c) - [AA combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/aa.md) - [22 combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/22.md) - [AA vs 97s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aa-vs-97s.md) - [AA vs 87s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aa-vs-87s.md) - [KK vs 22](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-22.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed Method: exact enumeration. The 36 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. ## Related - [AA vs 97s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aa-vs-97s.md) - [AA vs 87s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aa-vs-87s.md) - [KK vs 22: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-22.md)