--- title: "TT vs 65s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-65s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-65s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "TT is a big favorite over 65s before the flop: 78.20% to 21.80% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-54s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-64s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/99-vs-65s.md"] --- # TT vs 65s: preflop equity TT is a big favorite over 65s before the flop: 78.20% to 21.80% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. The exact count puts TT at 78.20% and 65s at 21.80% when the two hands see all five board cards. ## TT against 65s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for TT against 65s, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | TT | 77.954 | 0.492 | 21.554 | 78.200 | | 65s | 21.554 | 0.492 | 77.954 | 21.800 | Here a pocket pair (TT) meets a suited hand (65s). The pair outranks both of the other hand's cards, which is why the pair is a strong favorite. TT is well ahead, and 65s needs a specific kind of board to catch up. 0.49% of boards are ties, so the equity of each hand is its win rate plus half of that. Ranked by equity against a random hand, TT is number 5 of the 169 starting hands and 65s is number 128. **Boards behind the percentages: 41,095,296 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | TT | 32,035,000 | 202,000 | 8,858,000 | | 65s | 8,858,000 | 202,000 | 32,035,000 | 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. **TT 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | TT | 3.587 | 1.283 | 4.640 | 0.279 | | 65s | 0.279 | 4.640 | 1.283 | 3.587 | 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 Break the boards down by their first three cards and TT is strongest on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better (84.31%) and weakest on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) (61.77%). 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 65s by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | TT wins | Ties | 65s wins | TT equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 24.595 | 84.183 | 0.249 | 15.568 | 84.308 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 6.314 | 61.452 | 0.643 | 37.905 | 61.774 | | Two-tone | 46.545 | 76.164 | 0.313 | 23.523 | 76.320 | | Monotone | 5.212 | 71.928 | 2.443 | 25.629 | 73.150 | | Paired | 17.334 | 81.748 | 0.674 | 17.578 | 82.085 | 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 How much does the opponent matter? Compared with its random-hand 75.01%, TT changes by +3.19 points, and 65s, from 43.13%, by -21.33. **TT 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | TT, all flops | 78.200 | 75.012 | +3.188 | 1.04250 | | TT, rainbow, ten or higher | 84.308 | 75.012 | +9.296 | 1.12393 | | TT, rainbow, nine or lower | 61.774 | 75.012 | -13.238 | 0.82352 | | TT, two-tone | 76.320 | 75.012 | +1.308 | 1.01744 | | TT, monotone | 73.150 | 75.012 | -1.862 | 0.97518 | | TT, paired | 82.085 | 75.012 | +7.073 | 1.09429 | | 65s, all flops | 21.800 | 43.133 | -21.333 | 0.50541 | | 65s, rainbow, ten or higher | 15.692 | 43.133 | -27.441 | 0.36380 | | 65s, rainbow, nine or lower | 38.226 | 43.133 | -4.907 | 0.88624 | | 65s, two-tone | 23.680 | 43.133 | -19.453 | 0.54900 | | 65s, monotone | 26.850 | 43.133 | -16.283 | 0.62249 | | 65s, paired | 17.915 | 43.133 | -25.218 | 0.41534 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Does suit overlap move the numbers? TT has 78.77% when the hands share a suit and 77.64% when they do not. TT does better with a shared suit, by 1.13 points. **TT against 65s by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | TT wins | Ties | 65s wins | TT equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 12 | 50.00 | 78.497 | 0.536 | 20.967 | 78.765 | | No shared suit | 12 | 50.00 | 77.412 | 0.447 | 22.141 | 77.636 | ## How often this matchup comes up TT against 65s 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 Put $100 each into a $200 pot and deal every board once: TT averages $156.40 back, ahead of its $100 by $56.40, while 65s averages $43.60, short of its $100 by $56.40. A thousand deals look like this: TT takes 779, 65s takes 216, 5 are ties. ## The same matchup from the other side If you came looking for 65s against TT, the numbers are the same with the hands swapped: 21.80% and 78.20%. ## Keep exploring TsTh against 6d5d 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 TsTh against 6d5d in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=TsTh&p2=6d5d) - [TT combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/tt.md) - [65s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/65s.md) - [TT vs 54s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-54s.md) - [TT vs 64s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-64s.md) - [99 vs 65s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/99-vs-65s.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed This is an exact count with no sampling. For the 24 ways to deal one TT and one 65s without reusing a card, grouped by suit pattern, every one of the 1,712,304 possible boards is dealt and both seven-card hands are compared. A tie counts as half a win in the equity column, and each board is counted once under each of its ten three-card flops. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [TT vs 54s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-54s.md) - [TT vs 64s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-64s.md) - [99 vs 65s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/99-vs-65s.md)