ATs
48.31%
Wins 48.11%, ties 0.41%
66
51.69%
Wins 51.48%, ties 0.41%
ATs against 66: the numbers
| Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ATs | 48.108 | 0.412 | 51.480 | 48.314 |
| 66 | 51.480 | 0.412 | 48.108 | 51.686 |
Here a suited hand (ATs) meets a pocket pair (66). 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.
This is close to even money, with 66 a little ahead. Ties are 0.41% of the outcomes here; each tied board gives both hands half the pot.
Place 13 of 169 belongs to ATs and place 17 belongs to 66 in the ranking against a random hand.
| Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about |
|---|---|---|---|
| ATs | 19,770,000 | 169,000 | 21,156,000 |
| 66 | 21,156,000 | 169,000 | 19,770,000 |
24 specific deals times 1,712,304 boards gives the exact total. The won, tied and lost counts are approximations from the five-decimal percentages, rounded to the nearest thousand.
| Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ATs | 0.935 | 2.079 | 1.943 | 1.070 |
| 66 | 1.070 | 1.943 | 2.079 | 0.935 |
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
66 prefers low rainbow flops (nine high or lower), where it holds 77.76%, and likes rainbow flops topped by a ten or better least, where it holds 45.68%. ATs takes over on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better, so the favorite before the flop is the underdog on those boards.
| Flop | Share of flops | ATs wins | Ties | 66 wins | ATs equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rainbow, ten or higher | 24.595 | 54.227 | 0.195 | 45.578 | 54.325 |
| Rainbow, nine or lower | 6.314 | 21.944 | 0.588 | 77.468 | 22.238 |
| Two-tone | 46.545 | 49.862 | 0.257 | 49.881 | 49.990 |
| Monotone | 5.212 | 47.618 | 2.449 | 49.933 | 48.843 |
| Paired | 17.334 | 44.391 | 0.459 | 55.150 | 44.621 |
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
Compared with a random opponent, this matchup shifts ATs from 64.60% by -16.29 points and 66 from 63.29% by -11.60 points.
| Case | Equity here | Against a random hand | Change in points | Times the random-hand equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ATs, all flops | 48.314 | 64.602 | -16.288 | 0.74787 |
| ATs, rainbow, ten or higher | 54.325 | 64.602 | -10.277 | 0.84092 |
| ATs, rainbow, nine or lower | 22.238 | 64.602 | -42.364 | 0.34423 |
| ATs, two-tone | 49.990 | 64.602 | -14.612 | 0.77382 |
| ATs, monotone | 48.843 | 64.602 | -15.759 | 0.75606 |
| ATs, paired | 44.621 | 64.602 | -19.981 | 0.69071 |
| 66, all flops | 51.686 | 63.285 | -11.599 | 0.81672 |
| 66, rainbow, ten or higher | 45.675 | 63.285 | -17.610 | 0.72174 |
| 66, rainbow, nine or lower | 77.762 | 63.285 | +14.477 | 1.22876 |
| 66, two-tone | 50.010 | 63.285 | -13.275 | 0.79023 |
| 66, monotone | 51.157 | 63.285 | -12.128 | 0.80836 |
| 66, paired | 55.379 | 63.285 | -7.906 | 0.87507 |
Does a shared suit matter?
Split by suits, the deals give 66 51.86% when the hands overlap in a suit and 51.51% when they do not. 66 does better with a shared suit, by 0.35 points.
| Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | ATs wins | Ties | 66 wins | ATs equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Share a suit | 12 | 50.00 | 47.909 | 0.454 | 51.637 | 48.136 |
| No shared suit | 12 | 50.00 | 48.307 | 0.369 | 51.324 | 48.491 |
How often this matchup comes up
The class pair covers 24 combinations of specific cards in a fixed seat order, 0.0015% of 1,624,350, and 48 (0.0030%) in either order.
A worked example
Say each player puts $100 in before the flop, making a $200 pot. On average 66 takes back $103.38 of it, which is $3.38 more than it put in, and ATs takes back $96.62, $3.38 less than it put in.
In 1,000 deals of exactly this matchup, expect about 515 won outright by 66, about 481 won outright by ATs and about 4 split.
The same matchup from the other side
66 versus ATs is this same page seen from the other hand: 51.69% for 66, 48.31% for ATs.
Keep exploring
AsTs against 6h6d 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 24 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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