QTo vs 33: preflop equity

Over all 1,712,304 boards that can follow this deal, 33 finishes with 50.08% of the pot and QTo with 49.92%.

QTo

49.92%

Wins 49.44%, ties 0.96%

33

50.08%

Wins 49.60%, ties 0.96%

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

QTo against 33: the numbers

Exact preflop results for QTo against 33, in percent
HandWinsTiesLosesEquity
QTo49.4400.96149.59949.920
3349.5990.96149.44050.080

The first hand is an offsuit hand; the second is a pocket pair. 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 33 a little ahead. Ties are 0.96% of the outcomes here; each tied board gives both hands half the pot.

Place 47 of 169 belongs to QTo and place 66 belongs to 33 in the ranking against a random hand.

Boards behind the percentages: 123,285,888 counted in all
HandBoards won, aboutBoards tied, aboutBoards lost, about
QTo60,953,0001,185,00061,149,000
3361,149,0001,185,00060,953,000

Exact total: 72 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.

QTo against 33 read as odds
HandEquity as odds (to 1)Wins one deal inLoses one deal inPot odds needed to call (to 1)
QTo0.9972.0232.0161.003
331.0032.0162.0230.997

In the last column, a pot-to-call ratio at or above the figure makes a call break even or better at this equity.

Who is ahead on which flops

Break the boards down by their first three cards and 33 is strongest on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) (75.23%) and weakest on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better (43.49%). Watch for rainbow flops topped by a ten or better, two-tone flops and monotone flops: on those flops QTo holds the better equity.

QTo against 33 by flop texture, in percent
FlopShare of flopsQTo winsTies33 winsQTo equity
Rainbow, ten or higher24.71756.2600.49743.24356.508
Rainbow, nine or lower6.31424.3310.88874.78124.775
Two-tone46.48549.9710.56249.46750.252
Monotone5.15150.8882.45246.66052.114
Paired17.33347.0052.27450.72148.142

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, QTo changes by -7.37 points (baseline 57.29%) and 33 by -3.61 points (baseline 53.69%).

QTo and 33 here compared with each against a random hand, in percent
CaseEquity hereAgainst a random handChange in pointsTimes the random-hand equity
QTo, all flops49.92057.291-7.3710.87134
QTo, rainbow, ten or higher56.50857.291-0.7830.98633
QTo, rainbow, nine or lower24.77557.291-32.5160.43244
QTo, two-tone50.25257.291-7.0390.87714
QTo, monotone52.11457.291-5.1770.90964
QTo, paired48.14257.291-9.1490.84031
33, all flops50.08053.693-3.6130.93271
33, rainbow, ten or higher43.49253.693-10.2010.81001
33, rainbow, nine or lower75.22553.693+21.5321.40102
33, two-tone49.74853.693-3.9450.92653
33, monotone47.88653.693-5.8070.89185
33, paired51.85853.693-1.8350.96582

Does a shared suit matter?

Split by suits, the deals give 33 49.99% when the hands overlap in a suit and 50.52% when they do not. 33 does better with no shared suit, by 0.53 points.

QTo against 33 by suit overlap, in percent
DealsSpecific dealsShare of dealsQTo winsTies33 winsQTo equity
Share a suit6083.3349.5230.97249.50550.009
No shared suit1216.6749.0230.90650.07149.476

How often this matchup comes up

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

A worked example

Take a $200 pot built from $100 each. 33's equity of 50.08% is worth $100.16, a $0.16 edge, and QTo's 49.92% is worth $99.84, which is $0.16 under its stake.

Over a long run, 1,000 deals split into about 496 for 33, 494 for QTo and 10 tied.

The same matchup from the other side

The reversed view, 33 against QTo, shows 50.08% for 33 and 49.92% for QTo. It is the same count, so it redirects here.

Open the calculator with QsTh against 3d3c already entered, a deal with no shared suit, and change any card to try your own hand. The matchups after it each swap one hand for a nearby one in the ranking.

How this was computed

The figures are counted, not estimated: 1,712,304 boards for every suit pattern of the 72 specific deals, with both seven-card hands compared each time. Equity gives half a win for a tie. For the flop rows, a board is counted once under each of the ten flops inside it.

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

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