--- title: "TT vs T9s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-t9s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-t9s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "TT is a big favorite over T9s before the flop: 82.31% to 17.69% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-33.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-t8s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/99-vs-t9s.md"] --- # TT vs T9s: preflop equity TT is a big favorite over T9s before the flop: 82.31% to 17.69% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. The exact count puts TT at 82.31% and T9s at 17.69% when the two hands see all five board cards. ## TT against T9s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for TT against T9s, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | TT | 80.958 | 2.704 | 16.338 | 82.310 | | T9s | 16.338 | 2.704 | 80.958 | 17.690 | Here a pocket pair (TT) meets a suited hand (T9s). One hand holds a card of the same rank as the pair, which removes a card the pair needs and makes the pair a bigger favorite. TT is a big favorite here before anyone sees a flop. Ties are part of the picture: 2.70% of boards end in a split pot, and each side counts that as half a win. Ranked by equity against a random hand, TT is number 5 of the 169 starting hands and T9s is number 64. **Boards behind the percentages: 20,547,648 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | TT | 16,635,000 | 556,000 | 3,357,000 | | T9s | 3,357,000 | 556,000 | 16,635,000 | 12 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 T9s 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 | 4.653 | 1.235 | 6.121 | 0.215 | | T9s | 0.215 | 6.121 | 1.235 | 4.653 | 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 The flop changes the picture. TT does best on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better, at 85.14%, and worst on monotone flops, at 73.88%. TT stays ahead on all five textures. **TT against T9s by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | TT wins | Ties | T9s wins | TT equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.740 | 83.741 | 2.802 | 13.457 | 85.142 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.042 | 83.473 | 2.896 | 13.631 | 84.921 | | Two-tone | 46.236 | 79.377 | 2.598 | 18.025 | 80.676 | | Monotone | 5.151 | 72.256 | 3.252 | 24.492 | 73.882 | | Paired | 17.831 | 82.872 | 2.615 | 14.513 | 84.180 | A rainbow flop shows three suits, a two-tone flop repeats one suit, a monotone flop is a single suit, and a paired flop repeats a rank. ## Compared with a random hand How much does the opponent matter? Compared with its random-hand 75.01%, TT changes by +7.30 points, and T9s, from 54.03%, by -36.34. **TT and T9s 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 | 82.310 | 75.012 | +7.298 | 1.09729 | | TT, rainbow, ten or higher | 85.142 | 75.012 | +10.130 | 1.13505 | | TT, rainbow, nine or lower | 84.921 | 75.012 | +9.909 | 1.13210 | | TT, two-tone | 80.676 | 75.012 | +5.664 | 1.07551 | | TT, monotone | 73.882 | 75.012 | -1.130 | 0.98494 | | TT, paired | 84.180 | 75.012 | +9.168 | 1.12222 | | T9s, all flops | 17.690 | 54.028 | -36.338 | 0.32742 | | T9s, rainbow, ten or higher | 14.858 | 54.028 | -39.170 | 0.27501 | | T9s, rainbow, nine or lower | 15.079 | 54.028 | -38.949 | 0.27910 | | T9s, two-tone | 19.324 | 54.028 | -34.704 | 0.35767 | | T9s, monotone | 26.118 | 54.028 | -27.910 | 0.48342 | | T9s, paired | 15.820 | 54.028 | -38.208 | 0.29281 | ## Does a shared suit matter? These two classes cannot share a suit in any legal deal, so there is only one row to read: TT holds 82.31% in every deal of this matchup. **TT against T9s by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | TT wins | Ties | T9s wins | TT equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 0 | 0.00 | not possible | not possible | not possible | not possible | | No shared suit | 12 | 100.00 | 80.958 | 2.704 | 16.338 | 82.310 | ## 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 $164.62 from the $200, up $64.62; T9s averages $35.38, down $64.62. Over a long run, 1,000 deals split into about 810 for TT, 163 for T9s and 27 tied. ## The same matchup from the other side The reversed view, T9s against TT, shows 17.69% for T9s and 82.31% for TT. It is the same count, so it redirects here. ## Keep exploring Try TsTh against Td9d 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 Td9d in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=TsTh&p2=Td9d) - [TT combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/tt.md) - [T9s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/t9s.md) - [TT vs 33](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-33.md) - [TT vs T8s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-t8s.md) - [99 vs T9s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/99-vs-t9s.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed This is an exact count with no sampling. For the 12 ways to deal one TT and one T9s without reusing a card, grouped by suit pattern, every one of the 1,712,304 possible boards is dealt and both seven-card hands are compared. A tie counts as half a win in the equity column, and each board is counted once under each of its ten three-card flops. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [TT vs 33: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-33.md) - [TT vs T8s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-t8s.md) - [99 vs T9s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/99-vs-t9s.md)