--- title: "TT vs A3s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-a3s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-a3s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "TT is a big favorite over A3s before the flop: 67.32% to 32.68% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-qjo.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-k9o.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/99-vs-a3s.md"] --- # TT vs A3s: preflop equity TT is a big favorite over A3s before the flop: 67.32% to 32.68% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Before any board card is dealt, TT holds 67.32% equity against A3s, which leaves A3s with 32.68%. ## TT against A3s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for TT against A3s, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | TT | 67.113 | 0.420 | 32.467 | 67.323 | | A3s | 32.467 | 0.420 | 67.113 | 32.677 | We compare a pocket pair with a suited hand. The pair sits between the other hand's two cards: one is higher and one is lower, so the pair is exposed to the higher card. A lead of 34.64 points is large but not decisive: A3s still takes about 325 of every 1,000 deals. The tie share is 0.42%: on those boards the pot is chopped and neither hand wins outright. Ranked by equity against a random hand, TT is number 5 of the 169 starting hands and A3s is number 38. **Boards behind the percentages: 41,095,296 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | TT | 27,580,000 | 173,000 | 13,342,000 | | A3s | 13,342,000 | 173,000 | 27,580,000 | 24 specific deals times 1,712,304 boards gives the exact total. The won, tied and lost counts are approximations from the five-decimal percentages, rounded to the nearest thousand. **TT against A3s 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 | 2.060 | 1.490 | 3.080 | 0.485 | | A3s | 0.485 | 3.080 | 1.490 | 2.060 | 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 Across the five flop textures TT's equity moves by 11.19 points, from 63.08% on monotone flops to 74.27% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower). TT stays ahead on all five textures. **TT against A3s by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | TT wins | Ties | A3s wins | TT equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.867 | 67.223 | 0.176 | 32.601 | 67.311 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.042 | 73.816 | 0.917 | 25.267 | 74.274 | | Two-tone | 46.545 | 65.510 | 0.318 | 34.172 | 65.669 | | Monotone | 5.212 | 61.872 | 2.409 | 35.719 | 63.076 | | Paired | 17.334 | 70.120 | 0.229 | 29.651 | 70.235 | 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 The table below sets each hand against its own random-hand baseline: a change of -7.69 points for TT, from 75.01%, and -25.54 for A3s, from 58.22%. **TT and A3s 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 | 67.323 | 75.012 | -7.689 | 0.89750 | | TT, rainbow, ten or higher | 67.311 | 75.012 | -7.701 | 0.89734 | | TT, rainbow, nine or lower | 74.274 | 75.012 | -0.738 | 0.99016 | | TT, two-tone | 65.669 | 75.012 | -9.343 | 0.87545 | | TT, monotone | 63.076 | 75.012 | -11.936 | 0.84088 | | TT, paired | 70.235 | 75.012 | -4.777 | 0.93632 | | A3s, all flops | 32.677 | 58.220 | -25.543 | 0.56127 | | A3s, rainbow, ten or higher | 32.689 | 58.220 | -25.531 | 0.56147 | | A3s, rainbow, nine or lower | 25.726 | 58.220 | -32.494 | 0.44188 | | A3s, two-tone | 34.331 | 58.220 | -23.889 | 0.58968 | | A3s, monotone | 36.924 | 58.220 | -21.296 | 0.63422 | | A3s, paired | 29.765 | 58.220 | -28.455 | 0.51125 | ## Does a shared suit matter? The suit split reads 67.62% for TT with a shared suit and 67.03% without one. TT does better with a shared suit, by 0.59 points. **TT against A3s by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | TT wins | Ties | A3s wins | TT equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 12 | 50.00 | 67.383 | 0.464 | 32.153 | 67.615 | | No shared suit | 12 | 50.00 | 66.843 | 0.375 | 32.782 | 67.031 | ## 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 To see what the equity is worth, imagine $100 each in a $200 pot. TT is worth $134.64 on average (+$34.64); A3s is worth $65.36 (-$34.64). Per 1,000 deals: TT wins about 671, A3s wins about 325, and about 4 end in a split pot. ## The same matchup from the other side One page covers both views. From A3s' side the equity is 32.68%, and from TT's side it is 67.32%. ## Keep exploring Try TsTh against Ad3d 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 Ad3d in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=TsTh&p2=Ad3d) - [TT combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/tt.md) - [A3s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/a3s.md) - [TT vs QJo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-qjo.md) - [TT vs K9o](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-k9o.md) - [99 vs A3s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/99-vs-a3s.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 24 specific deals of TT against A3s, 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 QJo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-qjo.md) - [TT vs K9o: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-k9o.md) - [99 vs A3s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/99-vs-a3s.md)