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title: "T9s vs 43s: preflop equity"
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last_updated: "2026-10-23"
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summary: "T9s is a big favorite over 43s before the flop: 64.04% to 35.96% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit."
related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/33-vs-43s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/t9s-vs-53s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jto-vs-43s.md"]
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# T9s vs 43s: preflop equity

T9s is a big favorite over 43s before the flop: 64.04% to 35.96% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit.

Dealt all in against each other, T9s takes 64.04% of the pot on average and 43s takes the other 35.96%.

## T9s against 43s: the numbers

**Exact preflop results for T9s against 43s, in percent**

| Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| T9s | 63.159 | 1.770 | 35.071 | 64.044 |
| 43s | 35.071 | 1.770 | 63.159 | 35.956 |

This is a contest between two suited hands, T9s and 43s. The two hands share no rank, which makes this a pure matchup of card strength, straight chances and flush chances.

T9s is ahead, but 43s is far from dead: it takes 351 of every 1,000 deals outright. About 1.77% of boards chop the pot, which is why equity sits slightly above the win figure for both hands.

Place 64 of 169 belongs to T9s and place 150 belongs to 43s in the ranking against a random hand.

**Boards behind the percentages: 27,396,864 counted in all**

| Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| T9s | 17,304,000 | 485,000 | 9,608,000 |
| 43s | 9,608,000 | 485,000 | 17,304,000 |

The total is exact: 16 specific deals times 1,712,304 boards. The three counts are approximate, worked out from the percentages to five decimals and rounded to the nearest thousand.

**T9s 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) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| T9s | 1.781 | 1.583 | 2.851 | 0.561 |
| 43s | 0.561 | 2.851 | 1.583 | 1.781 |

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

Rainbow flops topped by a ten or better are the best for T9s (67.58%); low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) are the worst (52.38%). T9s stays ahead on all five textures, but the swing between them is large, so how the flop looks matters a great deal.

**T9s against 43s by flop texture, in percent**

| Flop | Share of flops | T9s wins | Ties | 43s wins | T9s equity |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Rainbow, ten or higher | 25.220 | 67.011 | 1.140 | 31.849 | 67.581 |
| Rainbow, nine or lower | 5.689 | 52.089 | 0.589 | 47.322 | 52.384 |
| Two-tone | 46.727 | 63.192 | 0.948 | 35.860 | 63.666 |
| Monotone | 5.273 | 59.260 | 4.067 | 36.673 | 61.294 |
| Paired | 17.091 | 62.272 | 4.630 | 33.098 | 64.587 |

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

Against one random hand instead, T9s holds 54.03% and 43s holds 38.64%. Facing each other changes that by +10.01 points for T9s and -2.68 points for 43s.

**T9s 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 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| T9s, all flops | 64.044 | 54.028 | +10.016 | 1.18539 |
| T9s, rainbow, ten or higher | 67.581 | 54.028 | +13.553 | 1.25085 |
| T9s, rainbow, nine or lower | 52.384 | 54.028 | -1.644 | 0.96957 |
| T9s, two-tone | 63.666 | 54.028 | +9.638 | 1.17839 |
| T9s, monotone | 61.294 | 54.028 | +7.266 | 1.13449 |
| T9s, paired | 64.587 | 54.028 | +10.559 | 1.19544 |
| 43s, all flops | 35.956 | 38.642 | -2.686 | 0.93049 |
| 43s, rainbow, ten or higher | 32.419 | 38.642 | -6.223 | 0.83896 |
| 43s, rainbow, nine or lower | 47.616 | 38.642 | +8.974 | 1.23223 |
| 43s, two-tone | 36.334 | 38.642 | -2.308 | 0.94027 |
| 43s, monotone | 38.706 | 38.642 | +0.064 | 1.00166 |
| 43s, paired | 35.413 | 38.642 | -3.229 | 0.91644 |

## Does a shared suit matter?

Looking only at deals where the hands share a suit, T9s has 66.47%; looking only at deals where they do not, 63.23%. T9s does better with a shared suit, by 3.24 points.

**T9s against 43s by suit overlap, in percent**

| Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | T9s wins | Ties | 43s wins | T9s equity |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Share a suit | 4 | 25.00 | 65.515 | 1.913 | 32.572 | 66.472 |
| No shared suit | 12 | 75.00 | 62.373 | 1.722 | 35.905 | 63.234 |

## How often this matchup comes up

Exactly 16 specific deals fit this matchup in one seat order, which is 0.0010% of 1,624,350; both orders together give 32, or 0.0020%.

## A worked example

Put $100 each into a $200 pot and deal every board once: T9s averages $128.08 back, ahead of its $100 by $28.08, while 43s averages $71.92, short of its $100 by $28.08.

Out of 1,000 deals you should see around 631 outright wins for T9s, 351 for 43s, and 18 split pots.

## The same matchup from the other side

The mirror image, 43s against T9s, is 35.96% to 64.04%, and its address redirects to this page.

## Keep exploring

Try Ts9s against 4h3h 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 Ts9s against 4h3h in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=Ts9s&p2=4h3h)
- [T9s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/t9s.md)
- [43s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/43s.md)
- [33 vs 43s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/33-vs-43s.md)
- [T9s vs 53s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/t9s-vs-53s.md)
- [JTo vs 43s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jto-vs-43s.md)
- [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md)

## How this was computed

Nothing here is simulated. The 16 deals of T9s against 43s 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

- [33 vs 43s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/33-vs-43s.md)
- [T9s vs 53s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/t9s-vs-53s.md)
- [JTo vs 43s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jto-vs-43s.md)