AJo
58.97%
Wins 58.74%, ties 0.46%
65s
41.03%
Wins 40.80%, ties 0.46%
AJo against 65s: the numbers
| Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AJo | 58.735 | 0.463 | 40.802 | 58.966 |
| 65s | 40.802 | 0.463 | 58.735 | 41.034 |
AJo and 65s are an offsuit hand and a suited hand, in that order. Neither hand shares a rank with the other, so this is a contest of high cards, connection and suits.
AJo is ahead, but 65s is far from dead: it takes 408 of every 1,000 deals outright. Ties are part of the picture: 0.46% of boards end in a split pot, and each side counts that as half a win.
AJo ranks number 15 of 169 starting hands, and 65s ranks number 128, by equity against a random hand.
| Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about |
|---|---|---|---|
| AJo | 48,275,000 | 381,000 | 33,535,000 |
| 65s | 33,535,000 | 381,000 | 48,275,000 |
The board total is exact, 48 deals at 1,712,304 boards each. Won, tied and lost counts are rounded to the nearest thousand from the five-decimal percentages.
| Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AJo | 1.437 | 1.703 | 2.451 | 0.696 |
| 65s | 0.696 | 2.451 | 1.703 | 1.437 |
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: AJo holds 67.58% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better and 30.24% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower). AJo is the favorite overall but falls behind on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower).
| Flop | Share of flops | AJo wins | Ties | 65s wins | AJo equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rainbow, ten or higher | 24.717 | 67.489 | 0.173 | 32.338 | 67.576 |
| Rainbow, nine or lower | 6.313 | 29.840 | 0.791 | 69.369 | 30.235 |
| Two-tone | 46.667 | 57.130 | 0.283 | 42.587 | 57.271 |
| Monotone | 5.212 | 56.257 | 2.415 | 41.328 | 57.464 |
| Paired | 17.091 | 61.888 | 0.657 | 37.455 | 62.217 |
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
Compared with a random opponent, this matchup shifts AJo from 63.56% by -4.59 points and 65s from 43.13% by -2.10 points.
| Case | Equity here | Against a random hand | Change in points | Times the random-hand equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AJo, all flops | 58.966 | 63.563 | -4.597 | 0.92768 |
| AJo, rainbow, ten or higher | 67.576 | 63.563 | +4.013 | 1.06313 |
| AJo, rainbow, nine or lower | 30.235 | 63.563 | -33.328 | 0.47567 |
| AJo, two-tone | 57.271 | 63.563 | -6.292 | 0.90101 |
| AJo, monotone | 57.464 | 63.563 | -6.099 | 0.90405 |
| AJo, paired | 62.217 | 63.563 | -1.346 | 0.97882 |
| 65s, all flops | 41.034 | 43.133 | -2.099 | 0.95134 |
| 65s, rainbow, ten or higher | 32.424 | 43.133 | -10.709 | 0.75172 |
| 65s, rainbow, nine or lower | 69.765 | 43.133 | +26.632 | 1.61744 |
| 65s, two-tone | 42.729 | 43.133 | -0.404 | 0.99063 |
| 65s, monotone | 42.536 | 43.133 | -0.597 | 0.98616 |
| 65s, paired | 37.783 | 43.133 | -5.350 | 0.87597 |
Does a shared suit matter?
Suit overlap shows up in the numbers. With a suit in common AJo has 59.66% equity, and with none in common it has 58.28%. AJo does better with a shared suit, by 1.38 points.
| Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | AJo wins | Ties | 65s wins | AJo equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Share a suit | 24 | 50.00 | 59.403 | 0.504 | 40.093 | 59.655 |
| No shared suit | 24 | 50.00 | 58.067 | 0.422 | 41.511 | 58.278 |
How often this matchup comes up
Counting specific cards, AJo against 65s appears in 48 of the 1,624,350 ordered heads-up deals (0.0030%), and in 96 when the seats are swapped too (0.0059%).
A worked example
A $100 all-in from each player makes a $200 pot, and the exact equity says AJo gets $117.94 of it on average and 65s gets $82.06.
Scaled to 1,000 deals, that is roughly 587 wins for AJo, 408 for 65s and 5 chopped pots.
The same matchup from the other side
Read it from the other side: 65s against AJo is the same matchup with the numbers swapped, so 65s holds 41.03% and AJo holds 58.97%. That address sends you back to this page.
Keep exploring
Open the calculator with AsJh against 6d5d 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
The figures are counted, not estimated: 1,712,304 boards for every suit pattern of the 48 specific deals, with both seven-card hands compared each time. Equity gives half a win for a tie. For the flop rows, a board is counted once under each of the ten flops inside it.
Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used.
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