ATs vs ATo: preflop equity

Over all 1,712,304 boards that can follow this deal, ATs finishes with 52.49% of the pot and ATo with 47.51%.

ATs

52.49%

Wins 7.16%, ties 90.67%

ATo

47.51%

Wins 2.17%, ties 90.67%

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

ATs against ATo: the numbers

Exact preflop results for ATs against ATo, in percent
HandWinsTiesLosesEquity
ATs7.15890.6692.17352.492
ATo2.17390.6697.15847.508

The matchup pits a suited hand against an offsuit hand. The two classes use the same two ranks and differ only in suits, so the suited hand is ahead mainly by making flushes.

ATs leads by less than 5 points of equity, so the result of any one deal is close to a toss-up. About 90.67% of boards chop the pot, which is why equity sits slightly above the win figure for both hands.

Among the 169 starting hands, ATs is number 13 and ATo is number 19 by strength against a random hand.

Boards behind the percentages: 41,095,296 counted in all
HandBoards won, aboutBoards tied, aboutBoards lost, about
ATs2,942,00037,261,000893,000
ATo893,00037,261,0002,942,000

Exact total: 24 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 ATo read as odds
HandEquity as odds (to 1)Wins one deal inLoses one deal inPot odds needed to call (to 1)
ATs1.10513.97046.0190.905
ATo0.90546.01913.9701.105

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

Split by what the flop looks like, ATs peaks at 53.28% on two-tone flops and bottoms out at 50.29% on monotone flops. ATs stays ahead on all five textures, and the gap between its best and worst is only 2.99 points, so the shape of the flop hardly changes who is favored.

ATs against ATo by flop texture, in percent
FlopShare of flopsATs winsTiesATo winsATs equity
Rainbow, ten or higher23.1383.26596.7350.00051.633
Rainbow, nine or lower7.7713.40996.5910.00051.705
Two-tone46.3638.82988.9012.27053.280
Monotone5.15218.51563.54017.94550.285
Paired17.5766.20192.6811.11852.541

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

Start from the random-hand figures, 64.60% for ATs and 62.72% for ATo. This opponent changes them by -12.11 and -15.21 points.

ATs and ATo here compared with each against a random hand, in percent
CaseEquity hereAgainst a random handChange in pointsTimes the random-hand equity
ATs, all flops52.49264.602-12.1100.81254
ATs, rainbow, ten or higher51.63364.602-12.9690.79925
ATs, rainbow, nine or lower51.70564.602-12.8970.80036
ATs, two-tone53.28064.602-11.3220.82474
ATs, monotone50.28564.602-14.3170.77838
ATs, paired52.54164.602-12.0610.81330
ATo, all flops47.50862.722-15.2140.75744
ATo, rainbow, ten or higher48.36762.722-14.3550.77113
ATo, rainbow, nine or lower48.29562.722-14.4270.76999
ATo, two-tone46.72062.722-16.0020.74487
ATo, monotone49.71562.722-13.0070.79262
ATo, paired47.45962.722-15.2630.75666

Does a shared suit matter?

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

ATs against ATo by suit overlap, in percent
DealsSpecific dealsShare of dealsATs winsTiesATo winsATs equity
Share a suit00.00not possiblenot possiblenot possiblenot possible
No shared suit24100.007.15890.6692.17352.492

How often this matchup comes up

This page stands for 24 specific-card matchups (0.0015% of 1,624,350 ordered deals), or 48 once you count the seats both ways (0.0030%).

A worked example

Say each player puts $100 in before the flop, making a $200 pot. On average ATs takes back $104.98 of it, which is $4.98 more than it put in, and ATo takes back $95.02, $4.98 less than it put in.

Run 1,000 deals and the tally comes out near 71 for ATs, 22 for ATo and 907 ties.

The same matchup from the other side

ATo against ATs adds nothing new: it is 47.51% for ATo and 52.49% for ATs, the same figures reversed.

Open the calculator with AsTs against AhTd 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

Each figure is a complete count over boards. Take the 24 specific deals, group them by suit pattern, deal all 1,712,304 boards against each, and compare the two seven-card hands. Equity counts a tie as half a win; the flop rows use every one of a board's ten flops.

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

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