--- title: "TT vs A6s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-a6s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-a6s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "TT is a big favorite over A6s before the flop: 68.21% to 31.79% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-kto.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-qts.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/99-vs-a6s.md"] --- # TT vs A6s: preflop equity TT is a big favorite over A6s before the flop: 68.21% to 31.79% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Over all 1,712,304 boards that can follow this deal, TT finishes with 68.21% of the pot and A6s with 31.79%. ## TT against A6s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for TT against A6s, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | TT | 68.027 | 0.371 | 31.602 | 68.212 | | A6s | 31.602 | 0.371 | 68.027 | 31.788 | The first hand is a pocket pair; the second 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. TT is the clear favorite, though A6s gets there on roughly one board in 3. 0.37% of boards are ties, so the equity of each hand is its win rate plus half of that. For context, TT sits at number 5 of 169 starting hands and A6s at number 31 when each is run 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 | 27,956,000 | 152,000 | 12,987,000 | | A6s | 12,987,000 | 152,000 | 27,956,000 | The total is exact: 24 specific deals times 1,712,304 boards. The three counts are approximate, worked out from the percentages to five decimals and rounded to the nearest thousand. **TT against A6s 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 | 2.146 | 1.470 | 3.164 | 0.466 | | A6s | 0.466 | 3.164 | 1.470 | 2.146 | 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 The flop changes the picture. TT does best on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower), at 75.99%, and worst on monotone flops, at 63.71%. TT stays ahead on all five textures. **TT against A6s by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | TT wins | Ties | A6s wins | TT equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.867 | 68.021 | 0.140 | 31.839 | 68.091 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.042 | 75.606 | 0.760 | 23.634 | 75.986 | | Two-tone | 46.545 | 66.446 | 0.261 | 33.293 | 66.576 | | Monotone | 5.212 | 62.523 | 2.368 | 35.109 | 63.707 | | Paired | 17.334 | 70.856 | 0.228 | 28.916 | 70.970 | 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 Compared with a random opponent, this matchup shifts TT from 75.01% by -6.80 points and A6s from 59.91% by -28.12 points. **TT and A6s 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 | 68.212 | 75.012 | -6.800 | 0.90935 | | TT, rainbow, ten or higher | 68.091 | 75.012 | -6.921 | 0.90773 | | TT, rainbow, nine or lower | 75.986 | 75.012 | +0.974 | 1.01298 | | TT, two-tone | 66.576 | 75.012 | -8.436 | 0.88754 | | TT, monotone | 63.707 | 75.012 | -11.305 | 0.84929 | | TT, paired | 70.970 | 75.012 | -4.042 | 0.94612 | | A6s, all flops | 31.788 | 59.906 | -28.118 | 0.53063 | | A6s, rainbow, ten or higher | 31.909 | 59.906 | -27.997 | 0.53265 | | A6s, rainbow, nine or lower | 24.014 | 59.906 | -35.892 | 0.40086 | | A6s, two-tone | 33.424 | 59.906 | -26.482 | 0.55794 | | A6s, monotone | 36.293 | 59.906 | -23.613 | 0.60583 | | A6s, paired | 29.030 | 59.906 | -30.876 | 0.48459 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Two kinds of deal exist here. In 12 of them the hands share a suit and TT holds 68.51%. In 12 they do not, and it holds 67.92%. TT does better with a shared suit, by 0.59 points. **TT against A6s by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | TT wins | Ties | A6s wins | TT equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 12 | 50.00 | 68.302 | 0.415 | 31.283 | 68.510 | | No shared suit | 12 | 50.00 | 67.751 | 0.328 | 31.921 | 67.915 | ## How often this matchup comes up You will meet this exact matchup 0.0030% of the time in a random heads-up deal: 48 of 1,624,350, counting either seat order. ## A worked example Take a $200 pot built from $100 each. TT's equity of 68.21% is worth $136.42, a $36.42 edge, and A6s' 31.79% is worth $63.58, which is $36.42 under its stake. A thousand deals look like this: TT takes 680, A6s takes 316, 4 are ties. ## The same matchup from the other side A6s versus TT is this same page seen from the other hand: 31.79% for A6s, 68.21% for TT. ## Keep exploring The calculator link fills in TsTh against Ad6d, a deal where the two hands share no suit. Change any card to test your own hand. The neighboring matchups below swap one of the two hands for one of similar strength. - [Open TsTh against Ad6d in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=TsTh&p2=Ad6d) - [TT combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/tt.md) - [A6s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/a6s.md) - [TT vs KTo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-kto.md) - [TT vs QTs](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-qts.md) - [99 vs A6s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/99-vs-a6s.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed The page is built from a full enumeration: 1,712,304 boards, every suit pattern of the 24 specific deals, both seven-card hands evaluated. A tie is worth half a win to each hand, and a board is tallied under each of its ten possible flops for the texture rows. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [TT vs KTo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-kto.md) - [TT vs QTs: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-qts.md) - [99 vs A6s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/99-vs-a6s.md)