--- title: "T9o vs 43s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/t9o-vs-43s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/t9o-vs-43s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "T9o is a big favorite over 43s before the flop: 61.59% to 38.41% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/98s-vs-43s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/t9o-vs-53s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/t8s-vs-43s.md"] --- # T9o vs 43s: preflop equity T9o is a big favorite over 43s before the flop: 61.59% to 38.41% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Counting every board, the equity split is 61.59% for T9o and 38.41% for 43s, so T9o leads by 23.18 points. ## T9o against 43s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for T9o against 43s, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | T9o | 60.702 | 1.783 | 37.515 | 61.593 | | 43s | 37.515 | 1.783 | 60.702 | 38.407 | We compare an offsuit hand with a suited hand. Neither hand shares a rank with the other, so this is a contest of high cards, connection and suits. T9o is ahead, but 43s is far from dead: it takes 375 of every 1,000 deals outright. A split pot comes up on 1.78% of boards, so the wins and the equity differ by half of that. In the ranking of all 169 starting hands, T9o is number 78 and 43s is number 150. **Boards behind the percentages: 82,190,592 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | T9o | 49,891,000 | 1,465,000 | 30,834,000 | | 43s | 30,834,000 | 1,465,000 | 49,891,000 | 48 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. **T9o against 43s read as odds** | Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | T9o | 1.604 | 1.647 | 2.666 | 0.624 | | 43s | 0.624 | 2.666 | 1.647 | 1.604 | The last column is the smallest pot odds, written as a pot-to-call ratio, at which a call breaks even with this equity. ## Who is ahead on which flops T9o prefers rainbow flops topped by a ten or better, where it holds 66.19%, and likes low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) least, where it holds 50.52%. T9o stays ahead on all five textures, but the swing between them is large, so how the flop looks matters a great deal. **T9o against 43s by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | T9o wins | Ties | 43s wins | T9o equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 25.341 | 65.610 | 1.167 | 33.223 | 66.193 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 5.689 | 50.216 | 0.613 | 49.171 | 50.523 | | Two-tone | 46.667 | 59.854 | 1.003 | 39.143 | 60.355 | | Monotone | 5.212 | 58.269 | 3.067 | 38.664 | 59.803 | | Paired | 17.091 | 59.971 | 4.824 | 35.205 | 62.383 | 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 Each hand has a baseline against a random hand: 51.53% for T9o, 38.64% for 43s. Here the change is +10.06 and -0.23 points. **T9o and 43s 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | T9o, all flops | 61.593 | 51.532 | +10.061 | 1.19524 | | T9o, rainbow, ten or higher | 66.193 | 51.532 | +14.661 | 1.28450 | | T9o, rainbow, nine or lower | 50.523 | 51.532 | -1.009 | 0.98042 | | T9o, two-tone | 60.355 | 51.532 | +8.823 | 1.17121 | | T9o, monotone | 59.803 | 51.532 | +8.271 | 1.16050 | | T9o, paired | 62.383 | 51.532 | +10.851 | 1.21057 | | 43s, all flops | 38.407 | 38.642 | -0.235 | 0.99392 | | 43s, rainbow, ten or higher | 33.807 | 38.642 | -4.835 | 0.87488 | | 43s, rainbow, nine or lower | 49.477 | 38.642 | +10.835 | 1.28039 | | 43s, two-tone | 39.645 | 38.642 | +1.003 | 1.02596 | | 43s, monotone | 40.197 | 38.642 | +1.555 | 1.04024 | | 43s, paired | 37.617 | 38.642 | -1.025 | 0.97347 | ## Does a shared suit matter? When the hands share a suit, T9o holds 62.32%; when they do not, it holds 60.87%. T9o does better with a shared suit, by 1.45 points. **T9o against 43s by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | T9o wins | Ties | 43s wins | T9o equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 24 | 50.00 | 61.408 | 1.823 | 36.769 | 62.320 | | No shared suit | 24 | 50.00 | 59.995 | 1.743 | 38.262 | 60.866 | ## How often this matchup comes up Exactly 48 specific deals fit this matchup in one seat order, which is 0.0030% of 1,624,350; both orders together give 96, or 0.0059%. ## A worked example Say each player puts $100 in before the flop, making a $200 pot. On average T9o takes back $123.18 of it, which is $23.18 more than it put in, and 43s takes back $76.82, $23.18 less than it put in. Think in thousands: about 607 of 1,000 go to T9o, about 375 go to 43s, and about 18 are chopped. ## The same matchup from the other side The mirror image, 43s against T9o, is 38.41% to 61.59%, and its address redirects to this page. ## Keep exploring Try Ts9h against 4d3d 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 Ts9h against 4d3d in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=Ts9h&p2=4d3d) - [T9o combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/t9o.md) - [43s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/43s.md) - [98s vs 43s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/98s-vs-43s.md) - [T9o vs 53s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/t9o-vs-53s.md) - [T8s vs 43s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/t8s-vs-43s.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed All 1,712,304 five-card boards are dealt for every suit pattern among the 48 specific deals of T9o against 43s, 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. ## Related - [98s vs 43s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/98s-vs-43s.md) - [T9o vs 53s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/t9o-vs-53s.md) - [T8s vs 43s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/t8s-vs-43s.md)