JTs
53.84%
Wins 53.13%, ties 1.43%
22
46.16%
Wins 45.44%, ties 1.43%
JTs against 22: the numbers
| Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| JTs | 53.125 | 1.427 | 45.448 | 53.838 |
| 22 | 45.448 | 1.427 | 53.125 | 46.162 |
Here a suited hand (JTs) meets a pocket pair (22). A pair against two higher cards is the classic race: the pair is usually a small favorite or close to even, and each overcard that pairs is a way to take the lead.
With only 7.68 points between them, the board decides this matchup far more than the cards in hand. Ties are part of the picture: 1.43% of boards end in a split pot, and each side counts that as half a win.
In the ranking of all 169 starting hands, JTs is number 45 and 22 is number 87.
| Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about |
|---|---|---|---|
| JTs | 21,832,000 | 586,000 | 18,677,000 |
| 22 | 18,677,000 | 586,000 | 21,832,000 |
Exact total: 24 deals times 1,712,304 boards. The other three counts come from the five-decimal percentages and are rounded to the nearest thousand, so read them as approximate.
| Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| JTs | 1.166 | 1.882 | 2.200 | 0.857 |
| 22 | 0.857 | 2.200 | 1.882 | 1.166 |
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
Split by what the flop looks like, JTs peaks at 58.62% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better and bottoms out at 32.08% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower). Watch for low rainbow flops (nine high or lower): on those flops 22 holds the better equity.
| Flop | Share of flops | JTs wins | Ties | 22 wins | JTs equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rainbow, ten or higher | 24.595 | 58.248 | 0.738 | 41.014 | 58.617 |
| Rainbow, nine or lower | 6.314 | 31.612 | 0.934 | 67.454 | 32.079 |
| Two-tone | 46.545 | 54.575 | 0.738 | 44.687 | 54.944 |
| Monotone | 5.212 | 50.965 | 4.045 | 44.990 | 52.988 |
| Paired | 17.334 | 50.445 | 3.648 | 45.907 | 52.269 |
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
Compared with a random opponent, this matchup shifts JTs from 57.53% by -3.69 points and 22 from 50.33% by -4.17 points.
| Case | Equity here | Against a random hand | Change in points | Times the random-hand equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| JTs, all flops | 53.838 | 57.528 | -3.690 | 0.93586 |
| JTs, rainbow, ten or higher | 58.617 | 57.528 | +1.089 | 1.01893 |
| JTs, rainbow, nine or lower | 32.079 | 57.528 | -25.449 | 0.55762 |
| JTs, two-tone | 54.944 | 57.528 | -2.584 | 0.95508 |
| JTs, monotone | 52.988 | 57.528 | -4.540 | 0.92108 |
| JTs, paired | 52.269 | 57.528 | -5.259 | 0.90858 |
| 22, all flops | 46.162 | 50.334 | -4.172 | 0.91711 |
| 22, rainbow, ten or higher | 41.383 | 50.334 | -8.951 | 0.82217 |
| 22, rainbow, nine or lower | 67.921 | 50.334 | +17.587 | 1.34941 |
| 22, two-tone | 45.056 | 50.334 | -5.278 | 0.89514 |
| 22, monotone | 47.012 | 50.334 | -3.322 | 0.93400 |
| 22, paired | 47.731 | 50.334 | -2.603 | 0.94829 |
Does a shared suit matter?
The suit split reads 53.70% for JTs with a shared suit and 53.98% without one. JTs does better with no shared suit, by 0.28 points.
| Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | JTs wins | Ties | 22 wins | JTs equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Share a suit | 12 | 50.00 | 52.974 | 1.447 | 45.579 | 53.697 |
| No shared suit | 12 | 50.00 | 53.276 | 1.407 | 45.317 | 53.979 |
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
With $100 from each side, the $200 pot is split on average as $107.68 for JTs and $92.32 for 22; the first side gains $7.68 per all-in and the second gives up $7.68.
Over a long run, 1,000 deals split into about 531 for JTs, 455 for 22 and 14 tied.
The same matchup from the other side
One page covers both views. From 22's side the equity is 46.16%, and from JTs' side it is 53.84%.
Keep exploring
JsTs against 2h2d is a ready-made deal for the calculator, with no suit in common between the hands. The neighboring matchups below replace one hand with another of similar strength.
How this was computed
This is an exact count with no sampling. For the 24 ways to deal one JTs and one 22 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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