TT vs 53s: preflop equity

TT against 53s: the numbers

The first hand is a pocket pair; the second is a suited hand. A pair against two lower cards is a lopsided matchup: the pair is ahead and the other hand has no overcard to catch.

A lead of 59.00 points is large but not decisive: 53s still takes about 202 of every 1,000 deals. Ties are 0.54% of the outcomes here; each tied board gives both hands half the pot.

TT ranks number 5 of 169 starting hands, and 53s ranks number 146, by equity against a random hand.

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.

The final column gives the least the pot must offer for each unit called for a call to break even at this equity.

Who is ahead on which flops

The flop changes the picture. TT does best on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better, at 84.46%, and worst on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower), at 68.54%. TT stays ahead on all five textures, but the swing between them is large, so how the flop looks matters a great deal.

A rainbow flop shows three suits, a two-tone flop repeats one suit, a monotone flop is a single suit, and a paired flop repeats a rank.

Compared with a random hand

The table below sets each hand against its own random-hand baseline: a change of +4.49 points for TT, from 75.01%, and -19.19 for 53s, from 39.69%.

Does a shared suit matter?

The suit split reads 80.09% for TT with a shared suit and 78.92% without one. TT does better with a shared suit, by 1.17 points.

How often this matchup comes up

This page stands for 24 specific-card matchups (0.0015% of 1,624,350 ordered deals), or 48 once you count the seats both ways (0.0030%).

A worked example

Say each player puts $100 in before the flop, making a $200 pot. On average TT takes back $159.00 of it, which is $59.00 more than it put in, and 53s takes back $41.00, $59.00 less than it put in.

In 1,000 deals of exactly this matchup, expect about 792 won outright by TT, about 202 won outright by 53s and about 6 split.

The same matchup from the other side

The reversed view, 53s against TT, shows 20.50% for 53s and 79.50% for TT. It is the same count, so it redirects here.

Keep exploring

Try TsTh against 5d3d 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 5d3d in the equity calculator
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