--- title: "TT vs 33: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-33.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-33" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "TT is a big favorite over 33 before the flop: 81.42% to 18.58% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-t8s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-t9o.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/99-vs-33.md"] --- # TT vs 33: preflop equity TT is a big favorite over 33 before the flop: 81.42% to 18.58% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. In equity, TT against 33 stands at 81.42% to 18.58%, a gap of 62.84 points. ## TT against 33: the numbers **Exact preflop results for TT against 33, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | TT | 81.142 | 0.557 | 18.301 | 81.421 | | 33 | 18.301 | 0.557 | 81.142 | 18.579 | TT meets 33, and both are pocket pairs. Both hands are pairs, so the bigger pair is ahead on every board that does not pair a card below it. This is one of the lopsided matchups: 33 wins only 18.30% of the boards outright. The tie share is 0.56%: on those boards the pot is chopped and neither hand wins outright. In the ranking of all 169 starting hands, TT is number 5 and 33 is number 66. **Boards behind the percentages: 61,642,944 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | TT | 50,018,000 | 343,000 | 11,281,000 | | 33 | 11,281,000 | 343,000 | 50,018,000 | Exact total: 36 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. **TT 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | TT | 4.382 | 1.232 | 5.464 | 0.228 | | 33 | 0.228 | 5.464 | 1.232 | 4.382 | 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 If you know the kind of flop that came, the numbers shift: TT holds 86.66% on paired flops and 68.74% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower). TT stays ahead on all five textures, but the swing between them is large, so how the flop looks matters a great deal. **TT against 33 by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | TT wins | Ties | 33 wins | TT equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 24.595 | 83.933 | 0.294 | 15.773 | 84.080 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 6.314 | 68.308 | 0.870 | 30.822 | 68.743 | | Two-tone | 46.363 | 80.158 | 0.398 | 19.444 | 80.357 | | Monotone | 5.152 | 74.820 | 2.289 | 22.891 | 75.964 | | Paired | 17.576 | 86.296 | 0.724 | 12.980 | 86.658 | 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 Compared with a random opponent, this matchup shifts TT from 75.01% by +6.41 points and 33 from 53.69% by -35.11 points. **TT 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | TT, all flops | 81.421 | 75.012 | +6.409 | 1.08544 | | TT, rainbow, ten or higher | 84.080 | 75.012 | +9.068 | 1.12089 | | TT, rainbow, nine or lower | 68.743 | 75.012 | -6.269 | 0.91643 | | TT, two-tone | 80.357 | 75.012 | +5.345 | 1.07126 | | TT, monotone | 75.964 | 75.012 | +0.952 | 1.01269 | | TT, paired | 86.658 | 75.012 | +11.646 | 1.15526 | | 33, all flops | 18.579 | 53.693 | -35.114 | 0.34602 | | 33, rainbow, ten or higher | 15.920 | 53.693 | -37.773 | 0.29650 | | 33, rainbow, nine or lower | 31.257 | 53.693 | -22.436 | 0.58214 | | 33, two-tone | 19.643 | 53.693 | -34.050 | 0.36584 | | 33, monotone | 24.036 | 53.693 | -29.657 | 0.44766 | | 33, paired | 13.342 | 53.693 | -40.351 | 0.24849 | ## Does a shared suit matter? When the hands share a suit, TT holds 81.55%; when they do not, it holds 80.76%. TT does better with a shared suit, by 0.79 points. **TT against 33 by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | TT wins | Ties | 33 wins | TT equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 30 | 83.33 | 81.270 | 0.568 | 18.162 | 81.554 | | No shared suit | 6 | 16.67 | 80.506 | 0.502 | 18.992 | 80.757 | ## How often this matchup comes up Counting specific cards, TT against 33 appears in 36 of the 1,624,350 ordered heads-up deals (0.0022%), and in 72 when the seats are swapped too (0.0044%). ## A worked example Put $100 each into a $200 pot and deal every board once: TT averages $162.84 back, ahead of its $100 by $62.84, while 33 averages $37.16, short of its $100 by $62.84. Per 1,000 deals: TT wins about 811, 33 wins about 183, and about 6 end in a split pot. ## The same matchup from the other side If you came looking for 33 against TT, the numbers are the same with the hands swapped: 18.58% and 81.42%. ## Keep exploring Try TsTh against 3d3c 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 TsTh against 3d3c in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=TsTh&p2=3d3c) - [TT combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/tt.md) - [33 combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/33.md) - [TT vs T8s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-t8s.md) - [TT vs T9o](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-t9o.md) - [99 vs 33](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/99-vs-33.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 36 specific deals of TT against 33, 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 - [TT vs T8s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-t8s.md) - [TT vs T9o: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-t9o.md) - [99 vs 33: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/99-vs-33.md)