ATs vs A4s: preflop equity

Dealt all in against each other, ATs takes 67.65% of the pot on average and A4s takes the other 32.35%.

ATs

67.65%

Wins 62.76%, ties 9.78%

A4s

32.35%

Wins 27.46%, ties 9.78%

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

ATs against A4s: the numbers

Exact preflop results for ATs against A4s, in percent
HandWinsTiesLosesEquity
ATs62.7569.78027.46467.646
A4s27.4649.78062.75632.354

Here suited hands face each other, ATs on one side and A4s on the other. The two hands share a rank, and the one with the better other card dominates: it wins most kicker battles when that shared rank hits.

ATs is the clear favorite, though A4s gets there on roughly one board in 3. Ties are part of the picture: 9.78% of boards end in a split pot, and each side counts that as half a win.

The hand ranking puts ATs at 13 and A4s at 35 out of 169 starting hands.

Boards behind the percentages: 20,547,648 counted in all
HandBoards won, aboutBoards tied, aboutBoards lost, about
ATs12,895,0002,010,0005,643,000
A4s5,643,0002,010,00012,895,000

Exact total: 12 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.

ATs against A4s read as odds
HandEquity as odds (to 1)Wins one deal inLoses one deal inPot odds needed to call (to 1)
ATs2.0911.5933.6410.478
A4s0.4783.6411.5932.091

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

The flop changes the picture. ATs does best on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better, at 74.10%, and worst on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower), at 56.04%. ATs stays ahead on all five textures, but the swing between them is large, so how the flop looks matters a great deal.

ATs against A4s by flop texture, in percent
FlopShare of flopsATs winsTiesA4s winsATs equity
Rainbow, ten or higher23.86769.8968.40921.69574.101
Rainbow, nine or lower7.04254.1003.88342.01756.042
Two-tone46.54364.0976.68629.21767.440
Monotone5.21558.6257.81233.56362.531
Paired17.33354.08522.96322.95265.567

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

Relative to a random opponent, ATs changes by +3.05 points (baseline 64.60%) and A4s by -26.68 points (baseline 59.03%).

ATs and A4s here compared with each against a random hand, in percent
CaseEquity hereAgainst a random handChange in pointsTimes the random-hand equity
ATs, all flops67.64664.602+3.0441.04712
ATs, rainbow, ten or higher74.10164.602+9.4991.14704
ATs, rainbow, nine or lower56.04264.602-8.5600.86750
ATs, two-tone67.44064.602+2.8381.04393
ATs, monotone62.53164.602-2.0710.96794
ATs, paired65.56764.602+0.9651.01494
A4s, all flops32.35459.034-26.6800.54806
A4s, rainbow, ten or higher25.89959.034-33.1350.43871
A4s, rainbow, nine or lower43.95859.034-15.0760.74462
A4s, two-tone32.56059.034-26.4740.55155
A4s, monotone37.46959.034-21.5650.63470
A4s, paired34.43359.034-24.6010.58327

Does a shared suit matter?

Suits do not split this matchup, because no legal deal has the hands holding the same suit.

ATs against A4s by suit overlap, in percent
DealsSpecific dealsShare of dealsATs winsTiesA4s winsATs equity
Share a suit00.00not possiblenot possiblenot possiblenot possible
No shared suit12100.0062.7569.78027.46467.646

How often this matchup comes up

This page stands for 12 specific-card matchups (0.0007% of 1,624,350 ordered deals), or 24 once you count the seats both ways (0.0015%).

A worked example

Put $100 each into a $200 pot and deal every board once: ATs averages $135.30 back, ahead of its $100 by $35.30, while A4s averages $64.70, short of its $100 by $35.30.

Run 1,000 deals and the tally comes out near 627 for ATs, 275 for A4s and 98 ties.

The same matchup from the other side

The reversed view, A4s against ATs, shows 32.35% for A4s and 67.65% for ATs. It is the same count, so it redirects here.

The calculator link fills in AsTs against Ah4h, a deal where the two hands share no suit. Change any card to test your own hand. The neighboring matchups below swap one of the two hands for one of similar strength.

How this was computed

Method: exact enumeration. The 12 specific deals are grouped by suit pattern, each is run against all 1,712,304 boards, and both seven-card hands are scored. Equity adds half of every tie, and flop textures are tallied over the ten flops inside each board.

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

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