--- title: "JJ vs TT: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-tt.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-tt" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "JJ is a big favorite over TT before the flop: 81.99% to 18.01% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-99.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-88.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-tt.md"] --- # JJ vs TT: preflop equity JJ is a big favorite over TT before the flop: 81.99% to 18.01% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. In equity, JJ against TT stands at 81.99% to 18.01%, a gap of 63.98 points. ## JJ against TT: the numbers **Exact preflop results for JJ against TT, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | JJ | 81.767 | 0.438 | 17.795 | 81.986 | | TT | 17.795 | 0.438 | 81.767 | 18.014 | Two pocket pairs meet here: JJ against TT. A pair against a smaller pair is the classic crush: the smaller pair needs one of its two remaining cards to make a set. That is a heavy lead: TT needs the board to help it on most runouts and still falls behind far more often than not. Ties are 0.44% of the outcomes here; each tied board gives both hands half the pot. In the ranking of all 169 starting hands, JJ is number 4 and TT is number 5. **Boards behind the percentages: 61,642,944 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | JJ | 50,404,000 | 270,000 | 10,969,000 | | TT | 10,969,000 | 270,000 | 50,404,000 | 36 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 TT 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 | 4.551 | 1.223 | 5.620 | 0.220 | | TT | 0.220 | 5.620 | 1.223 | 4.551 | 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 The flop changes the picture. JJ does best on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower), at 89.32%, and worst on monotone flops, at 76.24%. JJ stays ahead on all five textures. **JJ against TT by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | JJ wins | Ties | TT wins | JJ equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.138 | 79.039 | 0.169 | 20.792 | 79.124 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.771 | 88.824 | 0.988 | 10.188 | 89.318 | | Two-tone | 46.363 | 80.889 | 0.360 | 18.751 | 81.069 | | Monotone | 5.152 | 75.370 | 1.737 | 22.893 | 76.238 | | Paired | 17.576 | 86.428 | 0.373 | 13.199 | 86.614 | 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 A random hand would give JJ 77.47% and TT 75.01%. Against each other the change is +4.52 points for JJ and -57.00 for TT. **JJ and TT 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 | 81.986 | 77.469 | +4.517 | 1.05831 | | JJ, rainbow, ten or higher | 79.124 | 77.469 | +1.655 | 1.02136 | | JJ, rainbow, nine or lower | 89.318 | 77.469 | +11.849 | 1.15295 | | JJ, two-tone | 81.069 | 77.469 | +3.600 | 1.04647 | | JJ, monotone | 76.238 | 77.469 | -1.231 | 0.98411 | | JJ, paired | 86.614 | 77.469 | +9.145 | 1.11805 | | TT, all flops | 18.014 | 75.012 | -56.998 | 0.24015 | | TT, rainbow, ten or higher | 20.876 | 75.012 | -54.136 | 0.27830 | | TT, rainbow, nine or lower | 10.682 | 75.012 | -64.330 | 0.14240 | | TT, two-tone | 18.931 | 75.012 | -56.081 | 0.25237 | | TT, monotone | 23.762 | 75.012 | -51.250 | 0.31678 | | TT, paired | 13.386 | 75.012 | -61.626 | 0.17845 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Of the deals of this matchup, 30 share a suit (JJ at 82.12%) and 6 do not (81.30%). JJ does better with a shared suit, by 0.82 points. **JJ against TT by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | JJ wins | Ties | TT wins | JJ equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 30 | 83.33 | 81.897 | 0.454 | 17.649 | 82.124 | | No shared suit | 6 | 16.67 | 81.115 | 0.359 | 18.526 | 81.295 | ## How often this matchup comes up JJ against TT is made up of 36 specific-card matchups in one seat order, 0.0022% of the 1,624,350 ordered deals, and 72 counting both seat orders, 0.0044%. ## A worked example Try it with money: two players each put in $100 and the whole board runs out every possible way. JJ averages $163.98 from the $200, up $63.98; TT averages $36.02, down $63.98. In 1,000 deals of exactly this matchup, expect about 818 won outright by JJ, about 178 won outright by TT and about 4 split. ## The same matchup from the other side Read it from the other side: TT against JJ is the same matchup with the numbers swapped, so TT holds 18.01% and JJ holds 81.99%. That address sends you back to this page. ## Keep exploring Try JsJh against TdTc 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 TdTc in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=JsJh&p2=TdTc) - [JJ combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/jj.md) - [TT combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/tt.md) - [JJ vs 99](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-99.md) - [JJ vs 88](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-88.md) - [QQ vs TT](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-tt.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed We counted every case. Each suit pattern of the 36 specific JJ against TT deals meets all 1,712,304 boards, and the better five-card hand wins; a split pot is half a win each. The flop table reads each board under all ten of its three-card flops. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [JJ vs 99: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-99.md) - [JJ vs 88: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-88.md) - [QQ vs TT: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-tt.md)