--- title: "TT vs A5s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-a5s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-a5s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "TT is a big favorite over A5s before the flop: 66.96% to 33.04% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-a6s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-kto.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/99-vs-a5s.md"] --- # TT vs A5s: preflop equity TT is a big favorite over A5s before the flop: 66.96% to 33.04% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. In equity, TT against A5s stands at 66.96% to 33.04%, a gap of 33.92 points. ## TT against A5s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for TT against A5s, in percent** | 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. **Boards behind the percentages: 41,095,296 counted in all** | 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. **TT against A5s 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 | 2.027 | 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. **TT against A5s by flop texture, in percent** | 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. **TT and A5s 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 | 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. **TT against A5s by suit overlap, in percent** | 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. - [Open TsTh against Ad5d in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=TsTh&p2=Ad5d) - [TT combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/tt.md) - [A5s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/a5s.md) - [TT vs A6s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-a6s.md) - [TT vs KTo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-kto.md) - [99 vs A5s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/99-vs-a5s.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## 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. ## Related - [TT vs A6s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-a6s.md) - [TT vs KTo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-kto.md) - [99 vs A5s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/99-vs-a5s.md)