--- title: "JJ vs 22: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-22.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-22" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "JJ is a big favorite over 22 before the flop: 81.87% to 18.13% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-97s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-87s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-22.md"] --- # JJ vs 22: preflop equity JJ is a big favorite over 22 before the flop: 81.87% to 18.13% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. If JJ and 22 get all the chips in before the flop, JJ owns 81.87% of the pot in the long run and 22 owns 18.13%. ## JJ against 22: the numbers **Exact preflop results for JJ against 22, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | JJ | 81.600 | 0.540 | 17.860 | 81.870 | | 22 | 17.860 | 0.540 | 81.600 | 18.130 | Both hands are pocket pairs: JJ and 22. Both hands are pairs, so the bigger pair is ahead on every board that does not pair a card below it. This is one of the lopsided matchups: 22 wins only 17.86% of the boards outright. Ties are part of the picture: 0.54% of boards end in a split pot, and each side counts that as half a win. JJ ranks number 4 of 169 starting hands, and 22 ranks number 87, by equity against a random hand. **Boards behind the percentages: 61,642,944 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | JJ | 50,301,000 | 333,000 | 11,009,000 | | 22 | 11,009,000 | 333,000 | 50,301,000 | The board total is exact, 36 deals at 1,712,304 boards each. Won, tied and lost counts are rounded to the nearest thousand from the five-decimal percentages. **JJ against 22 read as odds** | Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | JJ | 4.516 | 1.225 | 5.599 | 0.221 | | 22 | 0.221 | 5.599 | 1.225 | 4.516 | 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 By flop texture, JJ's equity runs from 69.90% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) up to 87.06% on paired flops. JJ stays ahead on all five textures, but the swing between them is large, so how the flop looks matters a great deal. **JJ against 22 by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | JJ wins | Ties | 22 wins | JJ equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 24.595 | 84.256 | 0.220 | 15.524 | 84.366 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 6.314 | 69.234 | 1.332 | 29.434 | 69.900 | | Two-tone | 46.363 | 80.590 | 0.430 | 18.980 | 80.805 | | Monotone | 5.152 | 75.160 | 2.663 | 22.177 | 76.492 | | Paired | 17.576 | 86.873 | 0.372 | 12.755 | 87.059 | Flop types: rainbow means three different suits, two-tone means one suit twice, monotone means one suit three times, paired means a repeated rank. ## Compared with a random hand How much does the opponent matter? Compared with its random-hand 77.47%, JJ changes by +4.40 points, and 22, from 50.33%, by -32.20. **JJ and 22 here compared with each against a random hand, in percent** | Case | Equity here | Against a random hand | Change in points | Times the random-hand equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | JJ, all flops | 81.870 | 77.469 | +4.401 | 1.05681 | | JJ, rainbow, ten or higher | 84.366 | 77.469 | +6.897 | 1.08903 | | JJ, rainbow, nine or lower | 69.900 | 77.469 | -7.569 | 0.90230 | | JJ, two-tone | 80.805 | 77.469 | +3.336 | 1.04306 | | JJ, monotone | 76.492 | 77.469 | -0.977 | 0.98739 | | JJ, paired | 87.059 | 77.469 | +9.590 | 1.12379 | | 22, all flops | 18.130 | 50.334 | -32.204 | 0.36019 | | 22, rainbow, ten or higher | 15.634 | 50.334 | -34.700 | 0.31061 | | 22, rainbow, nine or lower | 30.100 | 50.334 | -20.234 | 0.59801 | | 22, two-tone | 19.195 | 50.334 | -31.139 | 0.38135 | | 22, monotone | 23.508 | 50.334 | -26.826 | 0.46704 | | 22, paired | 12.941 | 50.334 | -37.393 | 0.25710 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Of the deals of this matchup, 30 share a suit (JJ at 82.00%) and 6 do not (81.21%). JJ does better with a shared suit, by 0.79 points. **JJ against 22 by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | JJ wins | Ties | 22 wins | JJ equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 30 | 83.33 | 81.728 | 0.548 | 17.724 | 82.002 | | No shared suit | 6 | 16.67 | 80.956 | 0.503 | 18.541 | 81.207 | ## How often this matchup comes up How often does it happen? 36 of the 1,624,350 ordered deals (0.0022%) are JJ against 22, and 72 (0.0044%) if either hand may sit in either seat. ## A worked example A $100 all-in from each player makes a $200 pot, and the exact equity says JJ gets $163.74 of it on average and 22 gets $36.26. Scaled to 1,000 deals, that is roughly 816 wins for JJ, 179 for 22 and 5 chopped pots. ## The same matchup from the other side 22 against JJ adds nothing new: it is 18.13% for 22 and 81.87% for JJ, the same figures reversed. ## Keep exploring Open the calculator with JsJh against 2d2c 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. - [Open JsJh against 2d2c in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=JsJh&p2=2d2c) - [JJ combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/jj.md) - [22 combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/22.md) - [JJ vs 97s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-97s.md) - [JJ vs 87s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-87s.md) - [TT vs 22](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-22.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed Each figure is a complete count over boards. Take the 36 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. ## Related - [JJ vs 97s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-97s.md) - [JJ vs 87s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-87s.md) - [TT vs 22: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-22.md)