ATo vs 54s: preflop equity

Before any board card is dealt, ATo holds 59.35% equity against 54s, which leaves 54s with 40.65%.

ATo

59.35%

Wins 59.10%, ties 0.50%

54s

40.65%

Wins 40.40%, ties 0.50%

Equity counts a tie as half a win. Exact over every board.

ATo against 54s: the numbers

Exact preflop results for ATo against 54s, in percent
HandWinsTiesLosesEquity
ATo59.0960.49840.40659.345
54s40.4060.49859.09640.655

ATo is an offsuit hand and 54s is a suited hand. The two hands share no rank, which makes this a pure matchup of card strength, straight chances and flush chances.

A 18.70 point lead is real, and 54s still takes about 404 of every 1,000 deals outright. Split pots make up 0.50% of the boards, and both equity figures count them as half a win each.

Place 19 of 169 belongs to ATo and place 136 belongs to 54s in the ranking against a random hand.

Boards behind the percentages: 82,190,592 counted in all
HandBoards won, aboutBoards tied, aboutBoards lost, about
ATo48,571,000409,00033,210,000
54s33,210,000409,00048,571,000

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.

ATo against 54s read as odds
HandEquity as odds (to 1)Wins one deal inLoses one deal inPot odds needed to call (to 1)
ATo1.4601.6922.4750.685
54s0.6852.4751.6921.460

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

If you know the kind of flop that came, the numbers shift: ATo holds 66.91% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better and 34.59% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower). Low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) favor 54s, the hand that is behind overall.

ATo against 54s by flop texture, in percent
FlopShare of flopsATo winsTies54s winsATo equity
Rainbow, ten or higher24.71766.7900.23432.97666.907
Rainbow, nine or lower6.31334.2080.75765.03534.587
Two-tone46.66757.4480.32042.23257.608
Monotone5.21256.4852.47741.03857.723
Paired17.09162.4620.66936.86962.797

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: 62.72% for ATo, 41.45% for 54s. Here the change is -3.37 and -0.80 points.

ATo and 54s here compared with each against a random hand, in percent
CaseEquity hereAgainst a random handChange in pointsTimes the random-hand equity
ATo, all flops59.34562.722-3.3770.94616
ATo, rainbow, ten or higher66.90762.722+4.1851.06672
ATo, rainbow, nine or lower34.58762.722-28.1350.55143
ATo, two-tone57.60862.722-5.1140.91847
ATo, monotone57.72362.722-4.9990.92030
ATo, paired62.79762.722+0.0751.00120
54s, all flops40.65541.453-0.7980.98075
54s, rainbow, ten or higher33.09341.453-8.3600.79833
54s, rainbow, nine or lower65.41341.453+23.9601.57800
54s, two-tone42.39241.453+0.9391.02265
54s, monotone42.27741.453+0.8241.01988
54s, paired37.20341.453-4.2500.89747

Does a shared suit matter?

Of the deals of this matchup, 24 share a suit (ATo at 60.02%) and 24 do not (58.67%). ATo does better with a shared suit, by 1.35 points.

ATo against 54s by suit overlap, in percent
DealsSpecific dealsShare of dealsATo winsTies54s winsATo equity
Share a suit2450.0059.7510.53839.71160.020
No shared suit2450.0058.4420.45841.10058.671

How often this matchup comes up

Out of 1,624,350 ways to deal two seats two cards each, 48 are ATo in one seat and 54s in the other (0.0030%); with the seats swapped too, 96 (0.0059%).

A worked example

Take a $200 pot built from $100 each. ATo's equity of 59.35% is worth $118.70, a $18.70 edge, and 54s' 40.65% is worth $81.30, which is $18.70 under its stake.

Run 1,000 deals and the tally comes out near 591 for ATo, 404 for 54s and 5 ties.

The same matchup from the other side

Swap the hands and you get 54s with 40.65% against ATo with 59.35%. We keep one page per matchup, with the better-ranked hand first.

Open the calculator with AsTh against 5d4d 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.

How this was computed

Nothing here is simulated. The 48 deals of ATo against 54s fall into a few suit patterns, each dealt against all 1,712,304 boards, with both best five-card hands compared on every board. Ties give each hand half a win, and the flop rows count a board under each of its ten flops.

Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used.

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