--- title: "AA vs TT: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aa-vs-tt.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aa-vs-tt" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "AA is a big favorite over TT before the flop: 80.75% to 19.25% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aa-vs-99.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aa-vs-88.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-tt.md"] --- # AA vs TT: preflop equity AA is a big favorite over TT before the flop: 80.75% to 19.25% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. If AA and TT get all the chips in before the flop, AA owns 80.75% of the pot in the long run and TT owns 19.25%. ## AA against TT: the numbers **Exact preflop results for AA against TT, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AA | 80.560 | 0.378 | 19.062 | 80.749 | | TT | 19.062 | 0.378 | 80.560 | 19.251 | Both hands are pocket pairs: AA and TT. Two pairs against each other is a one-way street: the lower pair needs one of its two remaining cards. A gap this wide means TT is in trouble before the flop and has few good runouts. About 0.38% of boards chop the pot, which is why equity sits slightly above the win figure for both hands. Among the 169 starting hands, AA is number 1 and TT is number 5 by strength 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 | 49,660,000 | 233,000 | 11,750,000 | | TT | 11,750,000 | 233,000 | 49,660,000 | 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 TT 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 | 4.195 | 1.241 | 5.246 | 0.238 | | TT | 0.238 | 5.246 | 1.241 | 4.195 | In the last column, a pot-to-call ratio at or above the figure makes a call break even or better at this equity. ## Who is ahead on which flops By flop texture, AA's equity runs from 75.16% on monotone flops up to 88.63% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower). AA stays ahead on all five textures. **AA against TT by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | AA wins | Ties | TT wins | AA equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.138 | 77.262 | 0.174 | 22.564 | 77.349 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.771 | 88.135 | 0.996 | 10.869 | 88.633 | | Two-tone | 46.363 | 79.442 | 0.365 | 20.193 | 79.625 | | Monotone | 5.152 | 74.288 | 1.738 | 23.974 | 75.157 | | Paired | 17.576 | 86.341 | 0.007 | 13.652 | 86.345 | 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 A random hand would give AA 85.20% and TT 75.01%. Against each other the change is -4.45 points for AA and -55.76 for TT. **AA and TT 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 | 80.749 | 85.204 | -4.455 | 0.94771 | | AA, rainbow, ten or higher | 77.349 | 85.204 | -7.855 | 0.90781 | | AA, rainbow, nine or lower | 88.633 | 85.204 | +3.429 | 1.04024 | | AA, two-tone | 79.625 | 85.204 | -5.579 | 0.93452 | | AA, monotone | 75.157 | 85.204 | -10.047 | 0.88208 | | AA, paired | 86.345 | 85.204 | +1.141 | 1.01339 | | TT, all flops | 19.251 | 75.012 | -55.761 | 0.25664 | | TT, rainbow, ten or higher | 22.651 | 75.012 | -52.361 | 0.30197 | | TT, rainbow, nine or lower | 11.367 | 75.012 | -63.645 | 0.15154 | | TT, two-tone | 20.375 | 75.012 | -54.637 | 0.27162 | | TT, monotone | 24.843 | 75.012 | -50.169 | 0.33119 | | TT, paired | 13.655 | 75.012 | -61.357 | 0.18204 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Looking only at deals where the hands share a suit, AA has 80.88%; looking only at deals where they do not, 80.08%. AA does better with a shared suit, by 0.80 points. **AA against TT by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | AA wins | Ties | TT wins | AA equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 30 | 83.33 | 80.685 | 0.394 | 18.921 | 80.882 | | No shared suit | 6 | 16.67 | 79.935 | 0.297 | 19.768 | 80.084 | ## How often this matchup comes up How often does it happen? 36 of the 1,624,350 ordered deals (0.0022%) are AA against TT, and 72 (0.0044%) if either hand may sit in either seat. ## A worked example Put $100 each into a $200 pot and deal every board once: AA averages $161.50 back, ahead of its $100 by $61.50, while TT averages $38.50, short of its $100 by $61.50. Over a long run, 1,000 deals split into about 805 for AA, 191 for TT and 4 tied. ## The same matchup from the other side Swap the hands and you get TT with 19.25% against AA with 80.75%. We keep one page per matchup, with the better-ranked hand first. ## Keep exploring Try AsAh against TdTc in the calculator: the hands share no suit, and every card can be changed. The links after it are the closest matchups in the ranking. - [Open AsAh against TdTc in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=AsAh&p2=TdTc) - [AA combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/aa.md) - [TT combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/tt.md) - [AA vs 99](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aa-vs-99.md) - [AA vs 88](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aa-vs-88.md) - [KK vs TT](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-tt.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed The page is built from a full enumeration: 1,712,304 boards, every suit pattern of the 36 specific deals, both seven-card hands evaluated. A tie is worth half a win to each hand, and a board is tallied under each of its ten possible flops for the texture rows. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [AA vs 99: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aa-vs-99.md) - [AA vs 88: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aa-vs-88.md) - [KK vs TT: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-tt.md)