AKs
62.02%
Wins 61.77%, ties 0.49%
T9s
37.98%
Wins 37.74%, ties 0.49%
AKs against T9s: the numbers
| Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AKs | 61.773 | 0.493 | 37.734 | 62.020 |
| T9s | 37.734 | 0.493 | 61.773 | 37.980 |
Two suited hands meet here: AKs against T9s. With no overlap in ranks, every card that pairs one hand is a card that does not pair the other.
The lead is steady rather than large, and the flop still has plenty of say in who wins. Split pots make up 0.49% of the boards, and both equity figures count them as half a win each.
By strength against a random hand, AKs holds place 8 of 169 and T9s holds place 64.
| Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about |
|---|---|---|---|
| AKs | 16,924,000 | 135,000 | 10,338,000 |
| T9s | 10,338,000 | 135,000 | 16,924,000 |
The board total is exact, 16 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AKs | 1.633 | 1.619 | 2.650 | 0.612 |
| T9s | 0.612 | 2.650 | 1.619 | 1.633 |
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
AKs prefers rainbow flops topped by a ten or better, where it holds 64.63%, and likes low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) least, where it holds 53.62%. AKs stays ahead on all five textures.
| Flop | Share of flops | AKs wins | Ties | T9s wins | AKs equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.867 | 64.558 | 0.147 | 35.295 | 64.631 |
| Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.042 | 53.235 | 0.761 | 46.004 | 53.615 |
| Two-tone | 46.727 | 61.190 | 0.255 | 38.555 | 61.317 |
| Monotone | 5.273 | 57.694 | 3.409 | 38.897 | 59.399 |
| Paired | 17.091 | 64.257 | 0.616 | 35.127 | 64.565 |
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
Against one random hand instead, AKs holds 67.05% and T9s holds 54.03%. Facing each other changes that by -5.03 points for AKs and -16.05 points for T9s.
| Case | Equity here | Against a random hand | Change in points | Times the random-hand equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AKs, all flops | 62.020 | 67.045 | -5.025 | 0.92505 |
| AKs, rainbow, ten or higher | 64.631 | 67.045 | -2.414 | 0.96399 |
| AKs, rainbow, nine or lower | 53.615 | 67.045 | -13.430 | 0.79969 |
| AKs, two-tone | 61.317 | 67.045 | -5.728 | 0.91456 |
| AKs, monotone | 59.399 | 67.045 | -7.646 | 0.88596 |
| AKs, paired | 64.565 | 67.045 | -2.480 | 0.96301 |
| T9s, all flops | 37.980 | 54.028 | -16.048 | 0.70297 |
| T9s, rainbow, ten or higher | 35.369 | 54.028 | -18.659 | 0.65464 |
| T9s, rainbow, nine or lower | 46.385 | 54.028 | -7.643 | 0.85854 |
| T9s, two-tone | 38.683 | 54.028 | -15.345 | 0.71598 |
| T9s, monotone | 40.601 | 54.028 | -13.427 | 0.75148 |
| T9s, paired | 35.435 | 54.028 | -18.593 | 0.65586 |
Does a shared suit matter?
Two kinds of deal exist here. In 4 of them the hands share a suit and AKs holds 64.24%. In 12 they do not, and it holds 61.28%. AKs does better with a shared suit, by 2.96 points.
| Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | AKs wins | Ties | T9s wins | AKs equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Share a suit | 4 | 25.00 | 63.949 | 0.571 | 35.480 | 64.235 |
| No shared suit | 12 | 75.00 | 61.048 | 0.467 | 38.485 | 61.281 |
How often this matchup comes up
Exactly 16 specific deals fit this matchup in one seat order, which is 0.0010% of 1,624,350; both orders together give 32, or 0.0020%.
A worked example
To see what the equity is worth, imagine $100 each in a $200 pot. AKs is worth $124.04 on average (+$24.04); T9s is worth $75.96 (-$24.04).
Per 1,000 deals: AKs wins about 618, T9s wins about 377, and about 5 end in a split pot.
The same matchup from the other side
Read it from the other side: T9s against AKs is the same matchup with the numbers swapped, so T9s holds 37.98% and AKs holds 62.02%. That address sends you back to this page.
Keep exploring
AsKs against Th9h 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
All 1,712,304 five-card boards are dealt for every suit pattern among the 16 specific deals of AKs against T9s, and both hands are scored on each. That is a full count, so the percentages are exact. Ties are half a win each, and each board appears once per flop it contains.
Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used.
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