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title: "T9o vs 65s: preflop equity"
url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/t9o-vs-65s.md"
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last_updated: "2026-10-23"
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summary: "T9o is a big favorite over 65s before the flop: 61.09% to 38.91% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit."
related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/t9o-vs-54s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/t9o-vs-64s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/98s-vs-65s.md"]
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# T9o vs 65s: preflop equity

T9o is a big favorite over 65s before the flop: 61.09% to 38.91% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit.

The exact count puts T9o at 61.09% and 65s at 38.91% when the two hands see all five board cards.

## T9o against 65s: the numbers

**Exact preflop results for T9o against 65s, in percent**

| Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| T9o | 60.221 | 1.745 | 38.034 | 61.093 |
| 65s | 38.034 | 1.745 | 60.221 | 38.907 |

T9o, an offsuit hand, plays 65s, a suited hand. The two hands share no rank, which makes this a pure matchup of card strength, straight chances and flush chances.

The lead is steady rather than large, and the flop still has plenty of say in who wins. Split pots make up 1.75% of the boards, and both equity figures count them as half a win each.

For context, T9o sits at number 78 of 169 starting hands and 65s at number 128 when each is run against a random hand.

**Boards behind the percentages: 82,190,592 counted in all**

| Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| T9o | 49,496,000 | 1,434,000 | 31,260,000 |
| 65s | 31,260,000 | 1,434,000 | 49,496,000 |

The board total is exact, 48 deals at 1,712,304 boards each. Won, tied and lost counts are rounded to the nearest thousand from the five-decimal percentages.

**T9o against 65s 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 | 1.570 | 1.661 | 2.629 | 0.637 |
| 65s | 0.637 | 2.629 | 1.661 | 1.570 |

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

By flop texture, T9o's equity runs from 45.75% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) up to 66.65% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better. The lead reverses on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower): there 65s is the favorite even though T9o is ahead overall.

**T9o against 65s by flop texture, in percent**

| Flop | Share of flops | T9o wins | Ties | 65s wins | T9o equity |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Rainbow, ten or higher | 25.341 | 66.080 | 1.136 | 32.784 | 66.648 |
| Rainbow, nine or lower | 5.689 | 45.495 | 0.511 | 53.994 | 45.751 |
| Two-tone | 46.667 | 59.446 | 0.960 | 39.594 | 59.926 |
| Monotone | 5.212 | 57.967 | 2.932 | 39.101 | 59.433 |
| Paired | 17.091 | 59.240 | 4.836 | 35.924 | 61.658 |

Read the flop types this way: rainbow has three suits, two-tone has two cards of one suit, monotone has three, and paired repeats a rank.

## Compared with a random hand

Start from the random-hand figures, 51.53% for T9o and 43.13% for 65s. This opponent changes them by +9.56 and -4.22 points.

**T9o and 65s 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 | 61.093 | 51.532 | +9.561 | 1.18554 |
| T9o, rainbow, ten or higher | 66.648 | 51.532 | +15.116 | 1.29333 |
| T9o, rainbow, nine or lower | 45.751 | 51.532 | -5.781 | 0.88782 |
| T9o, two-tone | 59.926 | 51.532 | +8.394 | 1.16289 |
| T9o, monotone | 59.433 | 51.532 | +7.901 | 1.15332 |
| T9o, paired | 61.658 | 51.532 | +10.126 | 1.19650 |
| 65s, all flops | 38.907 | 43.133 | -4.226 | 0.90202 |
| 65s, rainbow, ten or higher | 33.352 | 43.133 | -9.781 | 0.77324 |
| 65s, rainbow, nine or lower | 54.249 | 43.133 | +11.116 | 1.25771 |
| 65s, two-tone | 40.074 | 43.133 | -3.059 | 0.92908 |
| 65s, monotone | 40.567 | 43.133 | -2.566 | 0.94051 |
| 65s, paired | 38.342 | 43.133 | -4.791 | 0.88892 |

## Does a shared suit matter?

Does suit overlap move the numbers? T9o has 61.80% when the hands share a suit and 60.39% when they do not. T9o does better with a shared suit, by 1.41 points.

**T9o against 65s by suit overlap, in percent**

| Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | T9o wins | Ties | 65s wins | T9o equity |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Share a suit | 24 | 50.00 | 60.903 | 1.789 | 37.308 | 61.798 |
| No shared suit | 24 | 50.00 | 59.539 | 1.700 | 38.761 | 60.389 |

## 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

Try it with money: two players each put in $100 and the whole board runs out every possible way. T9o averages $122.18 from the $200, up $22.18; 65s averages $77.82, down $22.18.

Scaled to 1,000 deals, that is roughly 602 wins for T9o, 380 for 65s and 18 chopped pots.

## The same matchup from the other side

The reversed view, 65s against T9o, shows 38.91% for 65s and 61.09% for T9o. It is the same count, so it redirects here.

## Keep exploring

Try Ts9h against 6d5d 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 6d5d in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=Ts9h&p2=6d5d)
- [T9o combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/t9o.md)
- [65s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/65s.md)
- [T9o vs 54s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/t9o-vs-54s.md)
- [T9o vs 64s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/t9o-vs-64s.md)
- [98s vs 65s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/98s-vs-65s.md)
- [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md)

## How this was computed

Nothing here is simulated. The 48 deals of T9o against 65s fall into a few suit patterns, each dealt against all 1,712,304 boards, with both best five-card hands compared on every board. Ties give each hand half a win, and the flop rows count a board under each of its ten flops.

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

## Related

- [T9o vs 54s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/t9o-vs-54s.md)
- [T9o vs 64s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/t9o-vs-64s.md)
- [98s vs 65s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/98s-vs-65s.md)