JJ vs 54s: preflop equity

Counting every board, the equity split is 77.48% for JJ and 22.52% for 54s, so JJ leads by 54.96 points.

JJ

77.48%

Wins 77.25%, ties 0.46%

54s

22.52%

Wins 22.29%, ties 0.46%

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

JJ against 54s: the numbers

Exact preflop results for JJ against 54s, in percent
HandWinsTiesLosesEquity
JJ77.2520.46022.28877.482
54s22.2880.46077.25222.518

One side is a pocket pair, the other is a suited hand. Here a pair faces two cards that are both smaller, so the other hand needs to pair up and still be behind.

JJ is well ahead, and 54s needs a specific kind of board to catch up. Split pots make up 0.46% of the boards, and both equity figures count them as half a win each.

By strength against a random hand, JJ holds place 4 of 169 and 54s holds place 136.

Boards behind the percentages: 41,095,296 counted in all
HandBoards won, aboutBoards tied, aboutBoards lost, about
JJ31,747,000189,0009,159,000
54s9,159,000189,00031,747,000

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.

JJ against 54s read as odds
HandEquity as odds (to 1)Wins one deal inLoses one deal inPot odds needed to call (to 1)
JJ3.4411.2944.4870.291
54s0.2914.4871.2943.441

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, JJ's equity runs from 63.12% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) up to 82.81% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better. 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 54s by flop texture, in percent
FlopShare of flopsJJ winsTies54s winsJJ equity
Rainbow, ten or higher24.59582.7020.21417.08482.809
Rainbow, nine or lower6.31462.6520.92636.42263.115
Two-tone46.54575.3080.34224.35075.479
Monotone5.21271.3112.50026.18972.561
Paired17.33481.8440.34317.81382.016

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, JJ changes by +0.01 points (baseline 77.47%) and 54s by -18.93 points (baseline 41.45%).

JJ and 54s here compared with each against a random hand, in percent
CaseEquity hereAgainst a random handChange in pointsTimes the random-hand equity
JJ, all flops77.48277.469+0.0131.00017
JJ, rainbow, ten or higher82.80977.469+5.3401.06893
JJ, rainbow, nine or lower63.11577.469-14.3540.81471
JJ, two-tone75.47977.469-1.9900.97431
JJ, monotone72.56177.469-4.9080.93665
JJ, paired82.01677.469+4.5471.05869
54s, all flops22.51841.453-18.9350.54322
54s, rainbow, ten or higher17.19141.453-24.2620.41471
54s, rainbow, nine or lower36.88541.453-4.5680.88980
54s, two-tone24.52141.453-16.9320.59154
54s, monotone27.43941.453-14.0140.66193
54s, paired17.98441.453-23.4690.43384

Does a shared suit matter?

Suit overlap shows up in the numbers. With a suit in common JJ has 78.04% equity, and with none in common it has 76.93%. JJ does better with a shared suit, by 1.11 points.

JJ against 54s by suit overlap, in percent
DealsSpecific dealsShare of dealsJJ winsTies54s winsJJ equity
Share a suit1250.0077.7850.50321.71278.036
No shared suit1250.0076.7190.41722.86476.928

How often this matchup comes up

Out of 1,624,350 ways to deal two seats two cards each, 24 are JJ in one seat and 54s in the other (0.0015%); with the seats swapped too, 48 (0.0030%).

A worked example

With $100 from each side, the $200 pot is split on average as $154.96 for JJ and $45.04 for 54s; the first side gains $54.96 per all-in and the second gives up $54.96.

In 1,000 deals of exactly this matchup, expect about 772 won outright by JJ, about 223 won outright by 54s and about 5 split.

The same matchup from the other side

The mirror image, 54s against JJ, is 22.52% to 77.48%, and its address redirects to this page.

Open the calculator with JsJh against 5d4d 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

The page is built from a full enumeration: 1,712,304 boards, every suit pattern of the 24 specific deals, both seven-card hands evaluated. A tie is worth half a win to each hand, and a board is tallied under each of its ten possible flops for the texture rows.

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

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