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AJs vs 33

AJs
VS
33
49.8%
equity for AJs — 33 takes 50.2%

Pair against two overcards — the classic coinflip, with the pair a shade ahead.

AJs Win
49.6%
Tie
0.6%
AJs Lose
49.9%
Card combinations
24
AJs vs random
65.4% · #11
33 vs random
53.7% · #67
Breakdown

Win, tie and loss for AJs

Win 49.6%Lose 49.9%

When AJs and 33 get all in before the flop, AJs wins 49.8% of the time and 33 takes 50.2%. Broken down, AJs wins outright 49.6%, chops 0.6% and loses 49.9% — a margin of -0.3 points. Pair against two overcards — the classic coinflip, with the pair a shade ahead.

The same matchup shifts depending on how the suits overlap. With one shared suit the number is 49.7% (for example As Js against 3s 3h); with no shared suit it is 50.0% (As Js against 3h 3d). That is a spread of 0.26 points across the 24 distinct card combinations, and it comes almost entirely from whether the two hands are fighting over the same flush.

Add a third player holding a random hand and the split becomes AJs 41.6%, 33 32.5%, random 25.9%. AJs gives up 8.3 points and 33 gives up 17.6, so the underdog loses more than the favourite does. Extra players always eat into the leader's share faster than into anyone else's.

Taken on their own, AJs is worth 65.4% against a random hand (rank 11 of 169) and 33 is worth 53.7% (rank 67). The gap between them in the ranking is only 11.7 points, yet head to head the gap is 0.3 points, which is roughly what the ranking table predicts.

Framed as a run of one hundred identical all-ins, AJs scoops roughly 50 pots, splits about one, and loses the remaining 50. Against eight random opponents rather than this one specific hand, AJs would be down to 20.1% and 33 to 12.8%, so the shape of this particular confrontation matters far more than either hand's standing in the overall ranking.

From 33's side, 50.2% is the break-even point for calling an all-in at 0.99:1 pot odds. Put another way, the call is profitable as long as the amount you have to put in is less than 50.2% of the pot you are playing for. AJs holds the other 49.8% of that same pot.

Two caveats keep this figure honest. First, it is showdown equity across all 24 card combinations with five board cards still to come — there is no fold equity in it, so the value of shoving in practice is usually higher than the raw percentage suggests. Second, it assumes 33 really does hold exactly 33; against the wider range a player would actually get all in with, AJs's 49.8% moves. Use the individual pages for AJs and 33 to see how each of them fares against all 168 other holdings before treating this single pairing as the whole picture.

By shared suits

Overlapping suits move the number

200,000 simulated showdowns per condition. The example column shows one concrete four-card layout.

ConditionExampleCombosAJs EquityWinTieLose
No shared suitAs Js vs 3h 3d1250.0%49.7%0.5%49.8%
One shared suitAs Js vs 3s 3h1249.7%49.4%0.6%50.0%
Three-way

Adding a random third hand

200,000 simulated showdowns, with the third hand dealt at random each time.

AJs
41.6%
vs heads-up -8.3pt
33
32.5%
vs heads-up -17.6pt
Random third hand
25.9%
Player count

At a bigger table

Random opponentsAJs33
165.4%53.7%
248.0%33.1%
432.2%19.1%
820.1%12.8%

Related

FAQ

AJs or 33 — which is ahead preflop?

33 is the favourite. AJs takes 49.8% and 33 50.2%, a margin of 0.3 points, with 0.6% of hands ending in a chop.

Do the suits change AJs vs 33?

Yes. With one shared suit it is 49.7%, and with no shared suit it is 50.0% — a swing of up to 0.26 points.

What happens three-way?

With one extra random hand in the pot the split is AJs 41.6%, 33 32.5%, random 25.9%. AJs drops 8.3 points compared with heads-up.

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