TT vs JTs: preflop equity

In equity, TT against JTs stands at 61.31% to 38.69%, a gap of 22.62 points.

TT

61.31%

Wins 60.39%, ties 1.84%

JTs

38.69%

Wins 37.77%, ties 1.84%

Equity counts a tie as half a win. Exact over every board.

TT against JTs: the numbers

Exact preflop results for TT against JTs, in percent
HandWinsTiesLosesEquity
TT60.3861.84337.77161.308
JTs37.7711.84360.38638.692

TT is a pocket pair and JTs is a suited hand. The pair already holds one of the other hand's ranks, and that overlap cuts down the cards the other hand can pair with.

TT is ahead, but JTs is far from dead: it takes 378 of every 1,000 deals outright. Ties are 1.84% of the outcomes here; each tied board gives both hands half the pot.

In the ranking of all 169 starting hands, TT is number 5 and JTs is number 45.

Boards behind the percentages: 20,547,648 counted in all
HandBoards won, aboutBoards tied, aboutBoards lost, about
TT12,408,000379,0007,761,000
JTs7,761,000379,00012,408,000

The total is exact: 12 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 JTs read as odds
HandEquity as odds (to 1)Wins one deal inLoses one deal inPot odds needed to call (to 1)
TT1.5851.6562.6480.631
JTs0.6312.6481.6561.585

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 75.16%, and worst on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better, at 56.93%. 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 JTs by flop texture, in percent
FlopShare of flopsTT winsTiesJTs winsTT equity
Rainbow, ten or higher23.01155.7892.27241.93956.925
Rainbow, nine or lower7.77174.3561.60124.04375.157
Two-tone46.23657.7081.94040.35258.678
Monotone5.15156.8912.80240.30758.292
Paired17.83168.1860.86630.94868.619

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

Start from the random-hand figures, 75.01% for TT and 57.53% for JTs. This opponent changes them by -13.70 and -18.84 points.

TT and JTs here compared with each against a random hand, in percent
CaseEquity hereAgainst a random handChange in pointsTimes the random-hand equity
TT, all flops61.30875.012-13.7040.81731
TT, rainbow, ten or higher56.92575.012-18.0870.75888
TT, rainbow, nine or lower75.15775.012+0.1451.00193
TT, two-tone58.67875.012-16.3340.78225
TT, monotone58.29275.012-16.7200.77710
TT, paired68.61975.012-6.3930.91477
JTs, all flops38.69257.528-18.8360.67258
JTs, rainbow, ten or higher43.07557.528-14.4530.74877
JTs, rainbow, nine or lower24.84357.528-32.6850.43184
JTs, two-tone41.32257.528-16.2060.71829
JTs, monotone41.70857.528-15.8200.72500
JTs, paired31.38157.528-26.1470.54549

Does a shared suit matter?

Suits do not split this matchup, because no legal deal has the hands holding the same suit.

TT against JTs by suit overlap, in percent
DealsSpecific dealsShare of dealsTT winsTiesJTs winsTT equity
Share a suit00.00not possiblenot possiblenot possiblenot possible
No shared suit12100.0060.3861.84337.77161.308

How often this matchup comes up

You will meet this exact matchup 0.0015% of the time in a random heads-up deal: 24 of 1,624,350, counting either seat order.

A worked example

Try it with money: two players each put in $100 and the whole board runs out every possible way. TT averages $122.62 from the $200, up $22.62; JTs averages $77.38, down $22.62.

Run 1,000 deals and the tally comes out near 604 for TT, 378 for JTs and 18 ties.

The same matchup from the other side

If you came looking for JTs against TT, the numbers are the same with the hands swapped: 38.69% and 61.31%.

TsTh against JdTd 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.

How this was computed

The figures are counted, not estimated: 1,712,304 boards for every suit pattern of the 12 specific deals, with both seven-card hands compared each time. Equity gives half a win for a tie. For the flop rows, a board is counted once under each of the ten flops inside it.

Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used.

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