JJ
80.31%
Wins 80.11%, ties 0.40%
98s
19.69%
Wins 19.49%, ties 0.40%
JJ against 98s: the numbers
| Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| JJ | 80.112 | 0.399 | 19.489 | 80.311 |
| 98s | 19.489 | 0.399 | 80.112 | 19.689 |
JJ is a pocket pair and 98s is a suited hand. The pair outranks both of the other hand's cards, which is why the pair is a strong favorite.
This is one of the lopsided matchups: 98s wins only 19.49% of the boards outright. Split pots make up 0.40% of the boards, and both equity figures count them as half a win each.
For context, JJ sits at number 4 of 169 starting hands and 98s at number 83 when each is run against a random hand.
| Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about |
|---|---|---|---|
| JJ | 32,922,000 | 164,000 | 8,009,000 |
| 98s | 8,009,000 | 164,000 | 32,922,000 |
The board total is exact, 24 deals at 1,712,304 boards each. Won, tied and lost counts are rounded to the nearest thousand from the five-decimal percentages.
| Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| JJ | 4.079 | 1.248 | 5.131 | 0.245 |
| 98s | 0.245 | 5.131 | 1.248 | 4.079 |
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
If you know the kind of flop that came, the numbers shift: JJ holds 84.19% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better and 73.39% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower). JJ stays ahead on all five textures.
| Flop | Share of flops | JJ wins | Ties | 98s wins | JJ equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rainbow, ten or higher | 24.595 | 84.093 | 0.191 | 15.716 | 84.189 |
| Rainbow, nine or lower | 6.314 | 73.050 | 0.674 | 26.276 | 73.387 |
| Two-tone | 46.545 | 78.278 | 0.270 | 21.452 | 78.413 |
| Monotone | 5.212 | 73.370 | 2.378 | 24.252 | 74.559 |
| Paired | 17.334 | 83.989 | 0.343 | 15.668 | 84.161 |
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
Each hand has a baseline against a random hand: 77.47% for JJ, 50.80% for 98s. Here the change is +2.84 and -31.11 points.
| Case | Equity here | Against a random hand | Change in points | Times the random-hand equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| JJ, all flops | 80.311 | 77.469 | +2.842 | 1.03669 |
| JJ, rainbow, ten or higher | 84.189 | 77.469 | +6.720 | 1.08674 |
| JJ, rainbow, nine or lower | 73.387 | 77.469 | -4.082 | 0.94731 |
| JJ, two-tone | 78.413 | 77.469 | +0.944 | 1.01219 |
| JJ, monotone | 74.559 | 77.469 | -2.910 | 0.96244 |
| JJ, paired | 84.161 | 77.469 | +6.692 | 1.08638 |
| 98s, all flops | 19.689 | 50.801 | -31.112 | 0.38757 |
| 98s, rainbow, ten or higher | 15.811 | 50.801 | -34.990 | 0.31123 |
| 98s, rainbow, nine or lower | 26.613 | 50.801 | -24.188 | 0.52387 |
| 98s, two-tone | 21.587 | 50.801 | -29.214 | 0.42493 |
| 98s, monotone | 25.441 | 50.801 | -25.360 | 0.50080 |
| 98s, paired | 15.839 | 50.801 | -34.962 | 0.31179 |
Does a shared suit matter?
The suit split reads 80.87% for JJ with a shared suit and 79.75% without one. JJ does better with a shared suit, by 1.12 points.
| Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | JJ wins | Ties | 98s wins | JJ equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Share a suit | 12 | 50.00 | 80.649 | 0.440 | 18.911 | 80.869 |
| No shared suit | 12 | 50.00 | 79.575 | 0.357 | 20.068 | 79.754 |
How often this matchup comes up
Counting specific cards, JJ against 98s appears in 24 of the 1,624,350 ordered heads-up deals (0.0015%), and in 48 when the seats are swapped too (0.0030%).
A worked example
Take a $200 pot built from $100 each. JJ's equity of 80.31% is worth $160.62, a $60.62 edge, and 98s' 19.69% is worth $39.38, which is $60.62 under its stake.
A thousand deals look like this: JJ takes 801, 98s takes 195, 4 are ties.
The same matchup from the other side
98s versus JJ is this same page seen from the other hand: 19.69% for 98s, 80.31% for JJ.
Keep exploring
Open the calculator with JsJh against 9d8d 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
This is an exact count with no sampling. For the 24 ways to deal one JJ and one 98s without reusing a card, grouped by suit pattern, every one of the 1,712,304 possible boards is dealt and both seven-card hands are compared. A tie counts as half a win in the equity column, and each board is counted once under each of its ten three-card flops.
Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used.
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