ATs vs 64s: preflop equity

Dealt all in against each other, ATs takes 62.79% of the pot on average and 64s takes the other 37.21%.

ATs

62.79%

Wins 62.53%, ties 0.51%

64s

37.21%

Wins 36.96%, ties 0.51%

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

ATs against 64s: the numbers

Exact preflop results for ATs against 64s, in percent
HandWinsTiesLosesEquity
ATs62.5330.51036.95762.788
64s36.9570.51062.53337.212

The matchup is suited hands on both sides, ATs against 64s. Neither hand shares a rank with the other, so this is a contest of high cards, connection and suits.

ATs is ahead, but 64s is far from dead: it takes 370 of every 1,000 deals outright. 0.51% of boards are ties, so the equity of each hand is its win rate plus half of that.

Ranked by equity against a random hand, ATs is number 13 of the 169 starting hands and 64s is number 138.

Boards behind the percentages: 27,396,864 counted in all
HandBoards won, aboutBoards tied, aboutBoards lost, about
ATs17,132,000140,00010,125,000
64s10,125,000140,00017,132,000

The total is exact: 16 specific deals times 1,712,304 boards. The three counts are approximate, worked out from the percentages to five decimals and rounded to the nearest thousand.

ATs against 64s read as odds
HandEquity as odds (to 1)Wins one deal inLoses one deal inPot odds needed to call (to 1)
ATs1.6871.5992.7060.593
64s0.5932.7061.5991.687

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

By flop texture, ATs' equity runs from 36.49% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) up to 69.73% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better. ATs is the favorite overall but falls behind on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower).

ATs against 64s by flop texture, in percent
FlopShare of flopsATs winsTies64s winsATs equity
Rainbow, ten or higher24.59569.6270.19730.17669.726
Rainbow, nine or lower6.31436.1690.65063.18136.494
Two-tone46.72761.9100.26537.82562.043
Monotone5.27358.2333.46938.29859.967
Paired17.09165.0950.66534.24065.428

Rainbow flops have three suits, two-tone flops repeat one suit, monotone flops are all one suit, and paired flops repeat a rank.

Compared with a random hand

Relative to a random opponent, ATs changes by -1.81 points (baseline 64.60%) and 64s by -4.12 points (baseline 41.33%).

ATs and 64s here compared with each against a random hand, in percent
CaseEquity hereAgainst a random handChange in pointsTimes the random-hand equity
ATs, all flops62.78864.602-1.8140.97192
ATs, rainbow, ten or higher69.72664.602+5.1241.07932
ATs, rainbow, nine or lower36.49464.602-28.1080.56491
ATs, two-tone62.04364.602-2.5590.96039
ATs, monotone59.96764.602-4.6350.92825
ATs, paired65.42864.602+0.8261.01279
64s, all flops37.21241.333-4.1210.90030
64s, rainbow, ten or higher30.27441.333-11.0590.73244
64s, rainbow, nine or lower63.50641.333+22.1731.53645
64s, two-tone37.95741.333-3.3760.91832
64s, monotone40.03341.333-1.3000.96855
64s, paired34.57241.333-6.7610.83643

Does a shared suit matter?

Two kinds of deal exist here. In 4 of them the hands share a suit and ATs holds 65.07%. In 12 they do not, and it holds 62.03%. ATs does better with a shared suit, by 3.04 points.

ATs against 64s by suit overlap, in percent
DealsSpecific dealsShare of dealsATs winsTies64s winsATs equity
Share a suit425.0064.7770.58934.63465.072
No shared suit1275.0061.7850.48437.73162.027

How often this matchup comes up

How often does it happen? 16 of the 1,624,350 ordered deals (0.0010%) are ATs against 64s, and 32 (0.0020%) if either hand may sit in either seat.

A worked example

Worked example: both players commit $100, so $200 sits in the middle. Over every board, ATs' average share is $125.58 (a gain of $25.58) and 64s' is $74.42 (a loss of $25.58).

Over a long run, 1,000 deals split into about 625 for ATs, 370 for 64s and 5 tied.

The same matchup from the other side

The mirror image, 64s against ATs, is 37.21% to 62.79%, and its address redirects to this page.

AsTs against 6h4h 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

The figures are counted, not estimated: 1,712,304 boards for every suit pattern of the 16 specific deals, with both seven-card hands compared each time. Equity gives half a win for a tie. For the flop rows, a board is counted once under each of the ten flops inside it.

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

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