AJo
71.35%
Wins 70.45%, ties 1.79%
JTo
28.65%
Wins 27.76%, ties 1.79%
AJo against JTo: the numbers
| Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AJo | 70.452 | 1.787 | 27.761 | 71.346 |
| JTo | 27.761 | 1.787 | 70.452 | 28.654 |
The matchup is offsuit hands on both sides, AJo against JTo. Sharing a rank is the signature of a dominated hand, since the weaker hand is usually out-kicked when the shared rank shows up.
AJo is the clear favorite, though JTo gets there on roughly one board in 3. 1.79% of boards are ties, so the equity of each hand is its win rate plus half of that.
By strength against a random hand, AJo holds place 15 of 169 and JTo holds place 57.
| Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about |
|---|---|---|---|
| AJo | 130,286,000 | 3,305,000 | 51,338,000 |
| JTo | 51,338,000 | 3,305,000 | 130,286,000 |
The board total is exact, 108 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 | 2.490 | 1.419 | 3.602 | 0.402 |
| JTo | 0.402 | 3.602 | 1.419 | 2.490 |
The last column is the smallest pot odds, written as a pot-to-call ratio, at which a call breaks even with this equity.
Who is ahead on which flops
The flop changes the picture. AJo does best on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower), at 78.82%, and worst on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better, at 67.95%. AJo stays ahead on all five textures.
| Flop | Share of flops | AJo wins | Ties | JTo wins | AJo equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.275 | 67.098 | 1.694 | 31.208 | 67.945 |
| Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.771 | 78.012 | 1.618 | 20.370 | 78.821 |
| Two-tone | 46.477 | 69.602 | 1.612 | 28.786 | 70.408 |
| Monotone | 5.144 | 66.816 | 2.510 | 30.674 | 68.071 |
| Paired | 17.333 | 74.925 | 2.244 | 22.831 | 76.047 |
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 +7.79 points for AJo, from 63.56%, and -26.60 for JTo, from 55.25%.
| Case | Equity here | Against a random hand | Change in points | Times the random-hand equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AJo, all flops | 71.346 | 63.563 | +7.783 | 1.12245 |
| AJo, rainbow, ten or higher | 67.945 | 63.563 | +4.382 | 1.06894 |
| AJo, rainbow, nine or lower | 78.821 | 63.563 | +15.258 | 1.24005 |
| AJo, two-tone | 70.408 | 63.563 | +6.845 | 1.10769 |
| AJo, monotone | 68.071 | 63.563 | +4.508 | 1.07092 |
| AJo, paired | 76.047 | 63.563 | +12.484 | 1.19640 |
| JTo, all flops | 28.654 | 55.248 | -26.594 | 0.51864 |
| JTo, rainbow, ten or higher | 32.055 | 55.248 | -23.193 | 0.58020 |
| JTo, rainbow, nine or lower | 21.179 | 55.248 | -34.069 | 0.38334 |
| JTo, two-tone | 29.592 | 55.248 | -25.656 | 0.53562 |
| JTo, monotone | 31.929 | 55.248 | -23.319 | 0.57792 |
| JTo, paired | 23.953 | 55.248 | -31.295 | 0.43355 |
Does a shared suit matter?
Does suit overlap move the numbers? AJo has 71.51% when the hands share a suit and 70.79% when they do not. AJo does better with a shared suit, by 0.72 points.
| Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | AJo wins | Ties | JTo wins | AJo equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Share a suit | 84 | 77.78 | 70.600 | 1.812 | 27.588 | 71.506 |
| No shared suit | 24 | 22.22 | 69.936 | 1.701 | 28.363 | 70.786 |
How often this matchup comes up
This page stands for 108 specific-card matchups (0.0066% of 1,624,350 ordered deals), or 216 once you count the seats both ways (0.0133%).
A worked example
Say each player puts $100 in before the flop, making a $200 pot. On average AJo takes back $142.70 of it, which is $42.70 more than it put in, and JTo takes back $57.30, $42.70 less than it put in.
Over a long run, 1,000 deals split into about 704 for AJo, 278 for JTo and 18 tied.
The same matchup from the other side
Swap the hands and you get JTo with 28.65% against AJo with 71.35%. We keep one page per matchup, with the better-ranked hand first.
Keep exploring
AsJh against JdTc 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.
How this was computed
The page is built from a full enumeration: 1,712,304 boards, every suit pattern of the 108 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.
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