--- title: "JTs vs 22: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jts-vs-22.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jts-vs-22" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "Who is ahead, JTs or 22? JTs leads 53.84% to 46.16% before the flop, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jts-vs-97s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jts-vs-87s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a2s-vs-22.md"] --- # JTs vs 22: preflop equity Who is ahead, JTs or 22? JTs leads 53.84% to 46.16% before the flop, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. In equity, JTs against 22 stands at 53.84% to 46.16%, a gap of 7.68 points. ## JTs against 22: the numbers **Exact preflop results for JTs against 22, in percent** | 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. **Boards behind the percentages: 41,095,296 counted in all** | 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. **JTs against 22 read as odds** | 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. **JTs against 22 by flop texture, in percent** | 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. **JTs and 22 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 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. **JTs against 22 by suit overlap, in percent** | 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. - [Open JsTs against 2h2d in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=JsTs&p2=2h2d) - [JTs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/jts.md) - [22 combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/22.md) - [JTs vs 97s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jts-vs-97s.md) - [JTs vs 87s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jts-vs-87s.md) - [A2s vs 22](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a2s-vs-22.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## 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. ## Related - [JTs vs 97s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jts-vs-97s.md) - [JTs vs 87s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jts-vs-87s.md) - [A2s vs 22: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a2s-vs-22.md)