AQs
65.01%
Wins 64.79%, ties 0.44%
T9o
34.99%
Wins 34.77%, ties 0.44%
AQs against T9o: the numbers
| Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AQs | 64.792 | 0.442 | 34.766 | 65.013 |
| T9o | 34.766 | 0.442 | 64.792 | 34.987 |
AQs is a suited hand and T9o is an offsuit hand. With no overlap in ranks, every card that pairs one hand is a card that does not pair the other.
AQs is the clear favorite, though T9o gets there on roughly one board in 3. Split pots make up 0.44% of the boards, and both equity figures count them as half a win each.
The hand ranking puts AQs at 10 and T9o at 78 out of 169 starting hands.
| Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about |
|---|---|---|---|
| AQs | 53,253,000 | 363,000 | 28,574,000 |
| T9o | 28,574,000 | 363,000 | 53,253,000 |
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.
| Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AQs | 1.858 | 1.543 | 2.876 | 0.538 |
| T9o | 0.538 | 2.876 | 1.543 | 1.858 |
In the last column, a pot-to-call ratio at or above the figure makes a call break even or better at this equity.
Who is ahead on which flops
If you know the kind of flop that came, the numbers shift: AQs holds 67.72% on paired flops and 55.44% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower). AQs stays ahead on all five textures.
| Flop | Share of flops | AQs wins | Ties | T9o wins | AQs equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.988 | 66.357 | 0.148 | 33.495 | 66.431 |
| Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.042 | 55.055 | 0.771 | 44.174 | 55.441 |
| Two-tone | 46.667 | 65.050 | 0.265 | 34.685 | 65.183 |
| Monotone | 5.212 | 59.838 | 2.364 | 37.798 | 61.020 |
| Paired | 17.091 | 67.411 | 0.620 | 31.969 | 67.721 |
Read the flop types this way: rainbow has three suits, two-tone has two cards of one suit, monotone has three, and paired repeats a rank.
Compared with a random hand
Each hand has a baseline against a random hand: 66.21% for AQs, 51.53% for T9o. Here the change is -1.20 and -16.54 points.
| Case | Equity here | Against a random hand | Change in points | Times the random-hand equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AQs, all flops | 65.013 | 66.209 | -1.196 | 0.98194 |
| AQs, rainbow, ten or higher | 66.431 | 66.209 | +0.222 | 1.00335 |
| AQs, rainbow, nine or lower | 55.441 | 66.209 | -10.768 | 0.83736 |
| AQs, two-tone | 65.183 | 66.209 | -1.026 | 0.98450 |
| AQs, monotone | 61.020 | 66.209 | -5.189 | 0.92163 |
| AQs, paired | 67.721 | 66.209 | +1.512 | 1.02284 |
| T9o, all flops | 34.987 | 51.532 | -16.545 | 0.67894 |
| T9o, rainbow, ten or higher | 33.569 | 51.532 | -17.963 | 0.65142 |
| T9o, rainbow, nine or lower | 44.559 | 51.532 | -6.973 | 0.86469 |
| T9o, two-tone | 34.817 | 51.532 | -16.715 | 0.67564 |
| T9o, monotone | 38.980 | 51.532 | -12.552 | 0.75642 |
| T9o, paired | 32.279 | 51.532 | -19.253 | 0.62639 |
Does a shared suit matter?
Split by suits, the deals give AQs 64.80% when the hands overlap in a suit and 65.22% when they do not. AQs does better with no shared suit, by 0.42 points.
| Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | AQs wins | Ties | T9o wins | AQs equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Share a suit | 24 | 50.00 | 64.561 | 0.483 | 34.956 | 64.802 |
| No shared suit | 24 | 50.00 | 65.023 | 0.401 | 34.576 | 65.223 |
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
Take a $200 pot built from $100 each. AQs' equity of 65.01% is worth $130.02, a $30.02 edge, and T9o's 34.99% is worth $69.98, which is $30.02 under its stake.
Out of 1,000 deals you should see around 648 outright wins for AQs, 348 for T9o, and 4 split pots.
The same matchup from the other side
The reversed view, T9o against AQs, shows 34.99% for T9o and 65.01% for AQs. It is the same count, so it redirects here.
Keep exploring
Try AsQs against Th9d in the calculator: the hands share no suit, and every card can be changed. The links after it are the closest matchups in the ranking.
How this was computed
All 1,712,304 five-card boards are dealt for every suit pattern among the 48 specific deals of AQs against T9o, 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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