--- title: "T9s vs 33: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/t9s-vs-33.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/t9s-vs-33" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "Who is ahead, T9s or 33? T9s leads 53.08% to 46.92% before the flop, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/t9s-vs-t8s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/t9s-vs-t9o.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jto-vs-33.md"] --- # T9s vs 33: preflop equity Who is ahead, T9s or 33? T9s leads 53.08% to 46.92% before the flop, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Before any board card is dealt, T9s holds 53.08% equity against 33, which leaves 33 with 46.92%. ## T9s against 33: the numbers **Exact preflop results for T9s against 33, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | T9s | 52.376 | 1.404 | 46.220 | 53.078 | | 33 | 46.220 | 1.404 | 52.376 | 46.922 | T9s, a suited hand, plays 33, a pocket pair. 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. That is a slim edge: neither hand is far ahead. The tie share is 1.40%: on those boards the pot is chopped and neither hand wins outright. Among the 169 starting hands, T9s is number 64 and 33 is number 66 by strength against a random hand. **Boards behind the percentages: 41,095,296 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | T9s | 21,524,000 | 577,000 | 18,994,000 | | 33 | 18,994,000 | 577,000 | 21,524,000 | The board total is exact, 24 deals at 1,712,304 boards each. Won, tied and lost counts are rounded to the nearest thousand from the five-decimal percentages. **T9s against 33 read as odds** | Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | T9s | 1.131 | 1.909 | 2.164 | 0.884 | | 33 | 0.884 | 2.164 | 1.909 | 1.131 | 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 Split by what the flop looks like, T9s peaks at 54.49% on two-tone flops and bottoms out at 46.52% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower). The lead reverses on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower): there 33 is the favorite even though T9s is ahead overall. **T9s against 33 by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | T9s wins | Ties | 33 wins | T9s equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 25.220 | 53.713 | 0.795 | 45.492 | 54.110 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 5.689 | 46.236 | 0.562 | 53.202 | 46.517 | | Two-tone | 46.545 | 54.127 | 0.720 | 45.153 | 54.487 | | Monotone | 5.212 | 50.609 | 3.502 | 45.889 | 52.360 | | Paired | 17.334 | 48.273 | 3.770 | 47.957 | 50.158 | 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, T9s changes by -0.95 points (baseline 54.03%) and 33 by -6.77 points (baseline 53.69%). **T9s and 33 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | T9s, all flops | 53.078 | 54.028 | -0.950 | 0.98242 | | T9s, rainbow, ten or higher | 54.110 | 54.028 | +0.082 | 1.00152 | | T9s, rainbow, nine or lower | 46.517 | 54.028 | -7.511 | 0.86098 | | T9s, two-tone | 54.487 | 54.028 | +0.459 | 1.00850 | | T9s, monotone | 52.360 | 54.028 | -1.668 | 0.96913 | | T9s, paired | 50.158 | 54.028 | -3.870 | 0.92837 | | 33, all flops | 46.922 | 53.693 | -6.771 | 0.87389 | | 33, rainbow, ten or higher | 45.890 | 53.693 | -7.803 | 0.85467 | | 33, rainbow, nine or lower | 53.483 | 53.693 | -0.210 | 0.99609 | | 33, two-tone | 45.513 | 53.693 | -8.180 | 0.84765 | | 33, monotone | 47.640 | 53.693 | -6.053 | 0.88727 | | 33, paired | 49.842 | 53.693 | -3.851 | 0.92828 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Suit overlap shows up in the numbers. With a suit in common T9s has 52.94% equity, and with none in common it has 53.22%. T9s does better with no shared suit, by 0.28 points. **T9s against 33 by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | T9s wins | Ties | 33 wins | T9s equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 12 | 50.00 | 52.222 | 1.435 | 46.343 | 52.939 | | No shared suit | 12 | 50.00 | 52.529 | 1.373 | 46.098 | 53.216 | ## How often this matchup comes up T9s against 33 is made up of 24 specific-card matchups in one seat order, 0.0015% of the 1,624,350 ordered deals, and 48 counting both seat orders, 0.0030%. ## A worked example To see what the equity is worth, imagine $100 each in a $200 pot. T9s is worth $106.16 on average (+$6.16); 33 is worth $93.84 (-$6.16). A thousand deals look like this: T9s takes 524, 33 takes 462, 14 are ties. ## The same matchup from the other side If you came looking for 33 against T9s, the numbers are the same with the hands swapped: 46.92% and 53.08%. ## Keep exploring Ts9s against 3h3d 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 Ts9s against 3h3d in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=Ts9s&p2=3h3d) - [T9s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/t9s.md) - [33 combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/33.md) - [T9s vs T8s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/t9s-vs-t8s.md) - [T9s vs T9o](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/t9s-vs-t9o.md) - [JTo vs 33](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jto-vs-33.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed We counted every case. Each suit pattern of the 24 specific T9s against 33 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 - [T9s vs T8s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/t9s-vs-t8s.md) - [T9s vs T9o: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/t9s-vs-t9o.md) - [JTo vs 33: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jto-vs-33.md)