AA vs ATo: preflop equity

The exact count puts AA at 91.87% and ATo at 8.13% when the two hands see all five board cards.

AA

91.87%

Wins 91.23%, ties 1.27%

ATo

8.13%

Wins 7.50%, ties 1.27%

Equity counts a tie as half a win. Exact over every board.

AA against ATo: the numbers

Exact preflop results for AA against ATo, in percent
HandWinsTiesLosesEquity
AA91.2281.2747.49891.865
ATo7.4981.27491.2288.135

AA and ATo are a pocket pair and an offsuit hand, in that order. The pair already holds one of the other hand's ranks, and that overlap cuts down the cards the other hand can pair with.

This is one of the lopsided matchups: ATo wins only 7.50% of the boards outright. Ties are 1.27% of the outcomes here; each tied board gives both hands half the pot.

The hand ranking puts AA at 1 and ATo at 19 out of 169 starting hands.

Boards behind the percentages: 61,642,944 counted in all
HandBoards won, aboutBoards tied, aboutBoards lost, about
AA56,236,000785,0004,622,000
ATo4,622,000785,00056,236,000

The board total is exact, 36 deals at 1,712,304 boards each. Won, tied and lost counts are rounded to the nearest thousand from the five-decimal percentages.

AA against ATo read as odds
HandEquity as odds (to 1)Wins one deal inLoses one deal inPot odds needed to call (to 1)
AA11.2931.09613.3370.089
ATo0.08913.3371.09611.293

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

By flop texture, AA's equity runs from 82.81% on monotone flops up to 95.82% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower). AA stays ahead on all five textures.

AA against ATo by flop texture, in percent
FlopShare of flopsAA winsTiesATo winsAA equity
Rainbow, ten or higher23.05391.5801.0887.33292.124
Rainbow, nine or lower7.77194.5132.6052.88295.815
Two-tone46.21591.1101.4017.48991.811
Monotone5.13081.8301.95316.21782.807
Paired17.83192.3510.4077.24292.554

Rainbow flops have three suits, two-tone flops repeat one suit, monotone flops are all one suit, and paired flops repeat a rank.

Compared with a random hand

Start from the random-hand figures, 85.20% for AA and 62.72% for ATo. This opponent changes them by +6.67 and -54.59 points.

AA and ATo here compared with each against a random hand, in percent
CaseEquity hereAgainst a random handChange in pointsTimes the random-hand equity
AA, all flops91.86585.204+6.6611.07818
AA, rainbow, ten or higher92.12485.204+6.9201.08122
AA, rainbow, nine or lower95.81585.204+10.6111.12454
AA, two-tone91.81185.204+6.6071.07754
AA, monotone82.80785.204-2.3970.97187
AA, paired92.55485.204+7.3501.08626
ATo, all flops8.13562.722-54.5870.12970
ATo, rainbow, ten or higher7.87662.722-54.8460.12557
ATo, rainbow, nine or lower4.18562.722-58.5370.06672
ATo, two-tone8.18962.722-54.5330.13056
ATo, monotone17.19362.722-45.5290.27411
ATo, paired7.44662.722-55.2760.11871

Does a shared suit matter?

Split by suits, the deals give AA 92.15% when the hands overlap in a suit and 91.29% when they do not. AA does better with a shared suit, by 0.86 points.

AA against ATo by suit overlap, in percent
DealsSpecific dealsShare of dealsAA winsTiesATo winsAA equity
Share a suit2466.6791.5021.3057.19392.154
No shared suit1233.3390.6811.2108.10991.286

How often this matchup comes up

How often does it happen? 36 of the 1,624,350 ordered deals (0.0022%) are AA against ATo, and 72 (0.0044%) if either hand may sit in either seat.

A worked example

A $100 all-in from each player makes a $200 pot, and the exact equity says AA gets $183.74 of it on average and ATo gets $16.26.

Over a long run, 1,000 deals split into about 912 for AA, 75 for ATo and 13 tied.

The same matchup from the other side

One page covers both views. From ATo's side the equity is 8.13%, and from AA's side it is 91.87%.

Open the calculator with AsAh against AdTc 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.

How this was computed

Each figure is a complete count over boards. Take the 36 specific deals, group them by suit pattern, deal all 1,712,304 boards against each, and compare the two seven-card hands. Equity counts a tie as half a win; the flop rows use every one of a board's ten flops.

Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used.

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