--- title: "JJ vs A6s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-a6s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-a6s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "JJ is a big favorite over A6s before the flop: 68.46% to 31.54% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-kto.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-qts.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-a6s.md"] --- # JJ vs A6s: preflop equity JJ is a big favorite over A6s before the flop: 68.46% to 31.54% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Counting every board, the equity split is 68.46% for JJ and 31.54% for A6s, so JJ leads by 36.92 points. ## JJ against A6s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for JJ against A6s, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | JJ | 68.271 | 0.379 | 31.350 | 68.460 | | A6s | 31.350 | 0.379 | 68.271 | 31.540 | Here a pocket pair (JJ) meets a suited hand (A6s). The pair sits between the other hand's two cards: one is higher and one is lower, so the pair is exposed to the higher card. A lead of 36.92 points is large but not decisive: A6s still takes about 313 of every 1,000 deals. Of every 100 boards, about 0.38 are split pots, and the equity figures already include them. JJ ranks number 4 of 169 starting hands, and A6s ranks number 31, by equity against a random hand. **Boards behind the percentages: 41,095,296 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | JJ | 28,056,000 | 156,000 | 12,883,000 | | A6s | 12,883,000 | 156,000 | 28,056,000 | The total is exact: 24 specific deals times 1,712,304 boards. The three counts are approximate, worked out from the percentages to five decimals and rounded to the nearest thousand. **JJ against A6s 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 | 2.171 | 1.465 | 3.190 | 0.461 | | A6s | 0.461 | 3.190 | 1.465 | 2.171 | The final column gives the least the pot must offer for each unit called for a call to break even at this equity. ## Who is ahead on which flops If you know the kind of flop that came, the numbers shift: JJ holds 76.00% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) and 63.86% on monotone flops. JJ stays ahead on all five textures. **JJ against A6s by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | JJ wins | Ties | A6s wins | JJ equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.867 | 68.295 | 0.120 | 31.585 | 68.355 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.042 | 75.531 | 0.946 | 23.523 | 76.004 | | Two-tone | 46.545 | 66.623 | 0.285 | 33.092 | 66.766 | | Monotone | 5.212 | 62.665 | 2.384 | 34.951 | 63.857 | | Paired | 17.334 | 71.396 | 0.156 | 28.448 | 71.474 | 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 Each hand has a baseline against a random hand: 77.47% for JJ, 59.91% for A6s. Here the change is -9.01 and -28.37 points. **JJ and A6s 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 | 68.460 | 77.469 | -9.009 | 0.88371 | | JJ, rainbow, ten or higher | 68.355 | 77.469 | -9.114 | 0.88235 | | JJ, rainbow, nine or lower | 76.004 | 77.469 | -1.465 | 0.98109 | | JJ, two-tone | 66.766 | 77.469 | -10.703 | 0.86184 | | JJ, monotone | 63.857 | 77.469 | -13.612 | 0.82429 | | JJ, paired | 71.474 | 77.469 | -5.995 | 0.92261 | | A6s, all flops | 31.540 | 59.906 | -28.366 | 0.52649 | | A6s, rainbow, ten or higher | 31.645 | 59.906 | -28.261 | 0.52824 | | A6s, rainbow, nine or lower | 23.996 | 59.906 | -35.910 | 0.40056 | | A6s, two-tone | 33.234 | 59.906 | -26.672 | 0.55477 | | A6s, monotone | 36.143 | 59.906 | -23.763 | 0.60333 | | A6s, paired | 28.526 | 59.906 | -31.380 | 0.47618 | ## Does a shared suit matter? When the hands share a suit, JJ holds 68.77%; when they do not, it holds 68.16%. JJ does better with a shared suit, by 0.61 points. **JJ against A6s by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | JJ wins | Ties | A6s wins | JJ equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 12 | 50.00 | 68.555 | 0.422 | 31.023 | 68.766 | | No shared suit | 12 | 50.00 | 67.987 | 0.336 | 31.677 | 68.155 | ## How often this matchup comes up Exactly 24 specific deals fit this matchup in one seat order, which is 0.0015% of 1,624,350; both orders together give 48, or 0.0030%. ## A worked example Worked example: both players commit $100, so $200 sits in the middle. Over every board, JJ's average share is $136.92 (a gain of $36.92) and A6s' is $63.08 (a loss of $36.92). Think in thousands: about 683 of 1,000 go to JJ, about 313 go to A6s, and about 4 are chopped. ## The same matchup from the other side One page covers both views. From A6s' side the equity is 31.54%, and from JJ's side it is 68.46%. ## Keep exploring Try JsJh against Ad6d in the calculator: the hands share no suit, and every card can be changed. The links after it are the closest matchups in the ranking. - [Open JsJh against Ad6d in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=JsJh&p2=Ad6d) - [JJ combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/jj.md) - [A6s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/a6s.md) - [JJ vs KTo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-kto.md) - [JJ vs QTs](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-qts.md) - [TT vs A6s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-a6s.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed The figures are counted, not estimated: 1,712,304 boards for every suit pattern of the 24 specific deals, with both seven-card hands compared each time. Equity gives half a win for a tie. For the flop rows, a board is counted once under each of the ten flops inside it. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [JJ vs KTo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-kto.md) - [JJ vs QTs: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-qts.md) - [TT vs A6s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-a6s.md)