TT
66.96%
Wins 66.75%, ties 0.41%
A5s
33.04%
Wins 32.84%, ties 0.41%
TT against A5s: the numbers
| Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TT | 66.754 | 0.409 | 32.837 | 66.959 |
| A5s | 32.837 | 0.409 | 66.754 | 33.041 |
One side is a pocket pair, the other is 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.
That is a clear edge, 66.96% to 33.04%, but A5s still wins often enough that one hand proves nothing. About 0.41% of boards chop the pot, which is why equity sits slightly above the win figure for both hands.
TT ranks number 5 of 169 starting hands, and A5s ranks number 30, by equity against a random hand.
| Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about |
|---|---|---|---|
| TT | 27,433,000 | 168,000 | 13,494,000 |
| A5s | 13,494,000 | 168,000 | 27,433,000 |
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.
| Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TT | 2.027 | 1.498 | 3.045 | 0.493 |
| A5s | 0.493 | 3.045 | 1.498 | 2.027 |
The last column is the break-even price: the pot odds a call needs to offer, as a ratio of pot to call.
Who is ahead on which flops
If you know the kind of flop that came, the numbers shift: TT holds 72.96% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) and 62.80% on monotone flops. TT stays ahead on all five textures.
| Flop | Share of flops | TT wins | Ties | A5s wins | TT equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.867 | 67.035 | 0.176 | 32.789 | 67.123 |
| Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.042 | 72.532 | 0.846 | 26.622 | 72.955 |
| Two-tone | 46.545 | 65.115 | 0.306 | 34.579 | 65.268 |
| Monotone | 5.212 | 61.603 | 2.402 | 35.995 | 62.804 |
| Paired | 17.334 | 69.972 | 0.229 | 29.799 | 70.086 |
Rainbow flops have three suits, two-tone flops repeat one suit, monotone flops are all one suit, and paired flops repeat a rank.
Compared with a random hand
Start from the random-hand figures, 75.01% for TT and 59.92% for A5s. This opponent changes them by -8.05 and -26.88 points.
| Case | Equity here | Against a random hand | Change in points | Times the random-hand equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TT, all flops | 66.959 | 75.012 | -8.053 | 0.89264 |
| TT, rainbow, ten or higher | 67.123 | 75.012 | -7.889 | 0.89483 |
| TT, rainbow, nine or lower | 72.955 | 75.012 | -2.057 | 0.97258 |
| TT, two-tone | 65.268 | 75.012 | -9.744 | 0.87010 |
| TT, monotone | 62.804 | 75.012 | -12.208 | 0.83725 |
| TT, paired | 70.086 | 75.012 | -4.926 | 0.93433 |
| A5s, all flops | 33.041 | 59.923 | -26.882 | 0.55139 |
| A5s, rainbow, ten or higher | 32.877 | 59.923 | -27.046 | 0.54865 |
| A5s, rainbow, nine or lower | 27.045 | 59.923 | -32.878 | 0.45133 |
| A5s, two-tone | 34.732 | 59.923 | -25.191 | 0.57961 |
| A5s, monotone | 37.196 | 59.923 | -22.727 | 0.62073 |
| A5s, paired | 29.914 | 59.923 | -30.009 | 0.49921 |
Does a shared suit matter?
Of the deals of this matchup, 12 share a suit (TT at 67.25%) and 12 do not (66.67%). TT does better with a shared suit, by 0.58 points.
| Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | TT wins | Ties | A5s wins | TT equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Share a suit | 12 | 50.00 | 67.021 | 0.453 | 32.526 | 67.247 |
| No shared suit | 12 | 50.00 | 66.489 | 0.364 | 33.147 | 66.671 |
How often this matchup comes up
Out of 1,624,350 ways to deal two seats two cards each, 24 are TT in one seat and A5s in the other (0.0015%); with the seats swapped too, 48 (0.0030%).
A worked example
Say each player puts $100 in before the flop, making a $200 pot. On average TT takes back $133.92 of it, which is $33.92 more than it put in, and A5s takes back $66.08, $33.92 less than it put in.
Per 1,000 deals: TT wins about 668, A5s wins about 328, and about 4 end in a split pot.
The same matchup from the other side
A5s against TT adds nothing new: it is 33.04% for A5s and 66.96% for TT, the same figures reversed.
Keep exploring
Open the calculator with TsTh against Ad5d already entered, a deal with no shared suit, and change any card to try your own hand. The matchups after it each swap one hand for a nearby one in the ranking.
How this was computed
We counted every case. Each suit pattern of the 24 specific TT against A5s deals meets all 1,712,304 boards, and the better five-card hand wins; a split pot is half a win each. The flop table reads each board under all ten of its three-card flops.
Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used.
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