JTo vs 33: preflop equity

In equity, JTo against 33 stands at 51.01% to 48.99%, a gap of 2.02 points.

JTo

51.01%

Wins 50.42%, ties 1.18%

33

48.99%

Wins 48.40%, ties 1.18%

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

JTo against 33: the numbers

Exact preflop results for JTo against 33, in percent
HandWinsTiesLosesEquity
JTo50.4201.17648.40451.008
3348.4041.17650.42048.992

JTo and 33 are an offsuit hand and a pocket pair, in that order. This is a pair against two overcards, a matchup that stays close because the other hand only needs one of its ranks to appear.

This is close to even money, with JTo a little ahead. Ties are part of the picture: 1.18% of boards end in a split pot, and each side counts that as half a win.

Among the 169 starting hands, JTo is number 57 and 33 is number 66 by strength against a random hand.

Boards behind the percentages: 123,285,888 counted in all
HandBoards won, aboutBoards tied, aboutBoards lost, about
JTo62,161,0001,450,00059,675,000
3359,675,0001,450,00062,161,000

The total is exact: 72 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.

JTo against 33 read as odds
HandEquity as odds (to 1)Wins one deal inLoses one deal inPot odds needed to call (to 1)
JTo1.0411.9832.0660.960
330.9602.0661.9831.041

The last column is the break-even price: the pot odds a call needs to offer, as a ratio of pot to call.

Who is ahead on which flops

Break the boards down by their first three cards and JTo is strongest on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better (57.08%) and weakest on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) (28.86%). On low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) and paired flops the numbers flip and 33 is the one ahead.

JTo against 33 by flop texture, in percent
FlopShare of flopsJTo winsTies33 winsJTo equity
Rainbow, ten or higher24.71756.7650.63842.59757.084
Rainbow, nine or lower6.31428.4580.80270.74028.859
Two-tone46.48551.1670.65748.17651.495
Monotone5.15151.7382.55145.71153.013
Paired17.33346.9753.06249.96348.506

Rainbow flops have three suits, two-tone flops repeat one suit, monotone flops are all one suit, and paired flops repeat a rank.

Compared with a random hand

Relative to a random opponent, JTo changes by -4.24 points (baseline 55.25%) and 33 by -4.70 points (baseline 53.69%).

JTo and 33 here compared with each against a random hand, in percent
CaseEquity hereAgainst a random handChange in pointsTimes the random-hand equity
JTo, all flops51.00855.248-4.2400.92326
JTo, rainbow, ten or higher57.08455.248+1.8361.03323
JTo, rainbow, nine or lower28.85955.248-26.3890.52235
JTo, two-tone51.49555.248-3.7530.93207
JTo, monotone53.01355.248-2.2350.95955
JTo, paired48.50655.248-6.7420.87797
33, all flops48.99253.693-4.7010.91245
33, rainbow, ten or higher42.91653.693-10.7770.79928
33, rainbow, nine or lower71.14153.693+17.4481.32496
33, two-tone48.50553.693-5.1880.90338
33, monotone46.98753.693-6.7060.87510
33, paired51.49453.693-2.1990.95904

Does a shared suit matter?

Looking only at deals where the hands share a suit, JTo has 51.10%; looking only at deals where they do not, 50.55%. JTo does better with a shared suit, by 0.55 points.

JTo against 33 by suit overlap, in percent
DealsSpecific dealsShare of dealsJTo winsTies33 winsJTo equity
Share a suit6083.3350.5061.18748.30751.100
No shared suit1216.6749.9861.12148.89350.546

How often this matchup comes up

How often does it happen? 72 of the 1,624,350 ordered deals (0.0044%) are JTo against 33, and 144 (0.0089%) if either hand may sit in either seat.

A worked example

With $100 from each side, the $200 pot is split on average as $102.02 for JTo and $97.98 for 33; the first side gains $2.02 per all-in and the second gives up $2.02.

A thousand deals look like this: JTo takes 504, 33 takes 484, 12 are ties.

The same matchup from the other side

Swap the hands and you get 33 with 48.99% against JTo with 51.01%. We keep one page per matchup, with the better-ranked hand first.

Try JsTh against 3d3c 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.

How this was computed

All 1,712,304 five-card boards are dealt for every suit pattern among the 72 specific deals of JTo against 33, and both hands are scored on each. That is a full count, so the percentages are exact. Ties are half a win each, and each board appears once per flop it contains.

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

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