AQo vs 43s: preflop equity

AQo against 43s: the numbers

AQo, an offsuit hand, plays 43s, a suited hand. 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. 0.54% of boards are ties, so the equity of each hand is its win rate plus half of that.

For context, AQo sits at number 14 of 169 starting hands and 43s at number 150 when each is run against a random hand.

Exact total: 48 deals times 1,712,304 boards. The other three counts come from the five-decimal percentages and are rounded to the nearest thousand, so read them as approximate.

The final column gives the least the pot must offer for each unit called for a call to break even at this equity.

Who is ahead on which flops

Across the five flop textures AQo's equity moves by 32.28 points, from 35.87% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) to 68.15% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better. 43s takes over on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower), so the favorite before the flop is the underdog on those boards.

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

The table below sets each hand against its own random-hand baseline: a change of -3.91 points for AQo, from 64.43%, and +0.84 for 43s, from 38.64%.

Does a shared suit matter?

Split by suits, the deals give AQo 61.22% when the hands overlap in a suit and 59.83% when they do not. AQo does better with a shared suit, by 1.39 points.

How often this matchup comes up

This page stands for 48 specific-card matchups (0.0030% of 1,624,350 ordered deals), or 96 once you count the seats both ways (0.0059%).

A worked example

To see what the equity is worth, imagine $100 each in a $200 pot. AQo is worth $121.04 on average (+$21.04); 43s is worth $78.96 (-$21.04).

Per 1,000 deals: AQo wins about 603, 43s wins about 392, and about 5 end in a split pot.

The same matchup from the other side

43s against AQo adds nothing new: it is 39.48% for 43s and 60.52% for AQo, the same figures reversed.

Keep exploring

AsQh against 4d3d 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.

• Open AsQh against 4d3d in the equity calculator
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• 43s combos
• AJo vs 43s
• AQo vs 53s
• ATs vs 43s
• All hand matchups