--- title: "AQo vs 33: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqo-vs-33.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqo-vs-33" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "Who is ahead, AQo or 33? 33 leads 53.03% to 46.98% before the flop, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqo-vs-t8s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqo-vs-t9o.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajo-vs-33.md"] --- # AQo vs 33: preflop equity Who is ahead, AQo or 33? 33 leads 53.03% to 46.98% before the flop, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Before any board card is dealt, 33 holds 53.02% equity against AQo, which leaves AQo with 46.98%. ## AQo against 33: the numbers **Exact preflop results for AQo against 33, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AQo | 46.703 | 0.544 | 52.753 | 46.975 | | 33 | 52.753 | 0.544 | 46.703 | 53.025 | AQo and 33 are an offsuit hand and a pocket pair, in that order. A pair against two higher cards is the classic race: the pair is usually a small favorite or close to even, and each overcard that pairs is a way to take the lead. 33 leads by less than 7 points of equity, so the result of any one deal is close to a toss-up. The tie share is 0.54%: on those boards the pot is chopped and neither hand wins outright. By strength against a random hand, AQo holds place 14 of 169 and 33 holds place 66. **Boards behind the percentages: 123,285,888 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AQo | 57,578,000 | 671,000 | 65,037,000 | | 33 | 65,037,000 | 671,000 | 57,578,000 | The board total is exact, 72 deals at 1,712,304 boards each. Won, tied and lost counts are rounded to the nearest thousand from the five-decimal percentages. **AQo against 33 read as odds** | Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AQo | 0.886 | 2.141 | 1.896 | 1.129 | | 33 | 1.129 | 1.896 | 2.141 | 0.886 | 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 Split by what the flop looks like, 33 peaks at 79.37% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) and bottoms out at 46.79% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better. AQo is ahead on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better, even though it trails 33 when every flop is counted. **AQo against 33 by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | AQo wins | Ties | 33 wins | AQo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 24.717 | 53.116 | 0.195 | 46.689 | 53.213 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 6.314 | 19.996 | 1.261 | 78.743 | 20.626 | | Two-tone | 46.485 | 46.719 | 0.394 | 52.887 | 46.916 | | Monotone | 5.151 | 48.589 | 2.270 | 49.141 | 49.724 | | Paired | 17.333 | 46.687 | 0.669 | 52.644 | 47.022 | Flop types: rainbow means three different suits, two-tone means one suit twice, monotone means one suit three times, paired means a repeated rank. ## Compared with a random hand Against one random hand instead, AQo holds 64.43% and 33 holds 53.69%. Facing each other changes that by -17.45 points for AQo and -0.67 points for 33. **AQo and 33 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AQo, all flops | 46.975 | 64.432 | -17.457 | 0.72906 | | AQo, rainbow, ten or higher | 53.213 | 64.432 | -11.219 | 0.82588 | | AQo, rainbow, nine or lower | 20.626 | 64.432 | -43.806 | 0.32012 | | AQo, two-tone | 46.916 | 64.432 | -17.516 | 0.72815 | | AQo, monotone | 49.724 | 64.432 | -14.708 | 0.77173 | | AQo, paired | 47.022 | 64.432 | -17.410 | 0.72979 | | 33, all flops | 53.025 | 53.693 | -0.668 | 0.98756 | | 33, rainbow, ten or higher | 46.787 | 53.693 | -6.906 | 0.87138 | | 33, rainbow, nine or lower | 79.374 | 53.693 | +25.681 | 1.47829 | | 33, two-tone | 53.084 | 53.693 | -0.609 | 0.98866 | | 33, monotone | 50.276 | 53.693 | -3.417 | 0.93636 | | 33, paired | 52.978 | 53.693 | -0.715 | 0.98668 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Looking only at deals where the hands share a suit, 33 has 52.94%; looking only at deals where they do not, 53.43%. 33 does better with no shared suit, by 0.49 points. **AQo against 33 by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | AQo wins | Ties | 33 wins | AQo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 60 | 83.33 | 46.778 | 0.555 | 52.667 | 47.056 | | No shared suit | 12 | 16.67 | 46.330 | 0.489 | 53.181 | 46.574 | ## How often this matchup comes up The class pair covers 72 combinations of specific cards in a fixed seat order, 0.0044% of 1,624,350, and 144 (0.0089%) in either order. ## A worked example Take a $200 pot built from $100 each. 33's equity of 53.02% is worth $106.04, a $6.04 edge, and AQo's 46.98% is worth $93.96, which is $6.04 under its stake. Out of 1,000 deals you should see around 528 outright wins for 33, 467 for AQo, and 5 split pots. ## The same matchup from the other side One page covers both views. From 33's side the equity is 53.02%, and from AQo's side it is 46.98%. ## Keep exploring Open the calculator with AsQh against 3d3c 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. - [Open AsQh against 3d3c in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=AsQh&p2=3d3c) - [AQo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/aqo.md) - [33 combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/33.md) - [AQo vs T8s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqo-vs-t8s.md) - [AQo vs T9o](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqo-vs-t9o.md) - [AJo vs 33](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajo-vs-33.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed We counted every case. Each suit pattern of the 72 specific AQo against 33 deals meets all 1,712,304 boards, and the better five-card hand wins; a split pot is half a win each. The flop table reads each board under all ten of its three-card flops. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [AQo vs T8s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqo-vs-t8s.md) - [AQo vs T9o: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqo-vs-t9o.md) - [AJo vs 33: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajo-vs-33.md)