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AJs vs 66

AJs
VS
66
48.3%
equity for AJs — 66 takes 51.7%

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

AJs Win
48.1%
Tie
0.4%
AJs Lose
51.5%
Card combinations
24
AJs vs random
65.4% · #11
66 vs random
63.3% · #17
Breakdown

Win, tie and loss for AJs

Win 48.1%Lose 51.5%

When AJs and 66 get all in before the flop, AJs wins 48.3% of the time and 66 takes 51.7%. Broken down, AJs wins outright 48.1%, chops 0.4% and loses 51.5% — a margin of -3.3 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 48.1% (for example As Js against 6s 6h); with no shared suit it is 48.6% (As Js against 6h 6d). That is a spread of 0.5 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 40.8%, 66 37.9%, random 21.4%. AJs gives up 7.6 points and 66 gives up 13.8, 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 66 is worth 63.3% (rank 17). The gap between them in the ranking is only 2.1 points, yet head to head the gap is 3.3 points — a reminder that a ranking table and a direct matchup are two different questions.

Framed as a run of one hundred identical all-ins, AJs scoops roughly 48 pots, splits about one, and loses the remaining 51. Against eight random opponents rather than this one specific hand, AJs would be down to 20.1% and 66 to 13.7%, so the shape of this particular confrontation matters far more than either hand's standing in the overall ranking.

From 66's side, 51.7% is the break-even point for calling an all-in at 0.93:1 pot odds. Put another way, the call is profitable as long as the amount you have to put in is less than 51.7% of the pot you are playing for. AJs holds the other 48.3% 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 66 really does hold exactly 66; against the wider range a player would actually get all in with, AJs's 48.3% moves. Use the individual pages for AJs and 66 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 6h 6d1248.6%48.4%0.4%51.2%
One shared suitAs Js vs 6s 6h1248.1%47.9%0.5%51.7%
Three-way

Adding a random third hand

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

AJs
40.8%
vs heads-up -7.6pt
66
37.9%
vs heads-up -13.8pt
Random third hand
21.4%
Player count

At a bigger table

Random opponentsAJs66
165.4%63.3%
248.0%43.0%
432.2%24.7%
820.1%13.7%

Related

FAQ

AJs or 66 — which is ahead preflop?

66 is the favourite. AJs takes 48.3% and 66 51.7%, a margin of 3.3 points, with 0.4% of hands ending in a chop.

Do the suits change AJs vs 66?

Yes. With one shared suit it is 48.1%, and with no shared suit it is 48.6% — a swing of up to 0.5 points.

What happens three-way?

With one extra random hand in the pot the split is AJs 40.8%, 66 37.9%, random 21.4%. AJs drops 7.6 points compared with heads-up.

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