--- title: "JTs vs T9s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jts-vs-t9s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jts-vs-t9s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "JTs is a big favorite over T9s before the flop: 70.11% to 29.89% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jts-vs-33.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jts-vs-t8s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a2s-vs-t9s.md"] --- # JTs vs T9s: preflop equity JTs is a big favorite over T9s before the flop: 70.11% to 29.89% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Over all 1,712,304 boards that can follow this deal, JTs finishes with 70.11% of the pot and T9s with 29.89%. ## JTs against T9s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for JTs against T9s, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | JTs | 67.682 | 4.848 | 27.470 | 70.106 | | T9s | 27.470 | 4.848 | 67.682 | 29.894 | The matchup is suited hands on both sides, JTs against T9s. The two hands share a rank, and the one with the better other card dominates: it wins most kicker battles when that shared rank hits. JTs is the clear favorite, though T9s gets there on roughly one board in 3. Ties are 4.85% of the outcomes here; each tied board gives both hands half the pot. In the ranking of all 169 starting hands, JTs is number 45 and T9s is number 64. **Boards behind the percentages: 20,547,648 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | JTs | 13,907,000 | 996,000 | 5,644,000 | | T9s | 5,644,000 | 996,000 | 13,907,000 | 12 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. **JTs against T9s 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 | 2.345 | 1.477 | 3.640 | 0.426 | | T9s | 0.426 | 3.640 | 1.477 | 2.345 | 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 Rainbow flops topped by a ten or better are the best for JTs (74.60%); low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) are the worst (62.86%). JTs stays ahead on all five textures. **JTs against T9s by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | JTs wins | Ties | T9s wins | JTs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.867 | 72.161 | 4.880 | 22.959 | 74.601 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.042 | 62.254 | 1.220 | 36.526 | 62.864 | | Two-tone | 46.543 | 67.213 | 3.727 | 29.060 | 69.077 | | Monotone | 5.215 | 60.415 | 5.967 | 33.618 | 63.399 | | Paired | 17.333 | 67.165 | 8.953 | 23.882 | 71.641 | 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 JTs 57.53% and T9s 54.03%. Against each other the change is +12.58 points for JTs and -24.14 for T9s. **JTs and T9s 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 | 70.106 | 57.528 | +12.578 | 1.21864 | | JTs, rainbow, ten or higher | 74.601 | 57.528 | +17.073 | 1.29678 | | JTs, rainbow, nine or lower | 62.864 | 57.528 | +5.336 | 1.09275 | | JTs, two-tone | 69.077 | 57.528 | +11.549 | 1.20075 | | JTs, monotone | 63.399 | 57.528 | +5.871 | 1.10205 | | JTs, paired | 71.641 | 57.528 | +14.113 | 1.24532 | | T9s, all flops | 29.894 | 54.028 | -24.134 | 0.55331 | | T9s, rainbow, ten or higher | 25.399 | 54.028 | -28.629 | 0.47011 | | T9s, rainbow, nine or lower | 37.136 | 54.028 | -16.892 | 0.68735 | | T9s, two-tone | 30.923 | 54.028 | -23.105 | 0.57235 | | T9s, monotone | 36.601 | 54.028 | -17.427 | 0.67745 | | T9s, paired | 28.359 | 54.028 | -25.669 | 0.52489 | ## Does a shared suit matter? The hands cannot hold a suit in common here, which leaves a single case and a single number: 70.11% for JTs. **JTs against T9s by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | JTs wins | Ties | T9s wins | JTs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 0 | 0.00 | not possible | not possible | not possible | not possible | | No shared suit | 12 | 100.00 | 67.682 | 4.848 | 27.470 | 70.106 | ## How often this matchup comes up How often does it happen? 12 of the 1,624,350 ordered deals (0.0007%) are JTs against T9s, and 24 (0.0015%) if either hand may sit in either seat. ## A worked example Put $100 each into a $200 pot and deal every board once: JTs averages $140.22 back, ahead of its $100 by $40.22, while T9s averages $59.78, short of its $100 by $40.22. Think in thousands: about 677 of 1,000 go to JTs, about 275 go to T9s, and about 48 are chopped. ## The same matchup from the other side If you came looking for T9s against JTs, the numbers are the same with the hands swapped: 29.89% and 70.11%. ## Keep exploring Try JsTs against Th9h 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 JsTs against Th9h in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=JsTs&p2=Th9h) - [JTs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/jts.md) - [T9s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/t9s.md) - [JTs vs 33](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jts-vs-33.md) - [JTs vs T8s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jts-vs-t8s.md) - [A2s vs T9s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a2s-vs-t9s.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed We counted every case. Each suit pattern of the 12 specific JTs against T9s 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 - [JTs vs 33: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jts-vs-33.md) - [JTs vs T8s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jts-vs-t8s.md) - [A2s vs T9s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a2s-vs-t9s.md)