TT vs AQ
A pair of tens against ace-queen, all in before the flop. Both cards are higher than the pair, and the race is close.
Also written as tens vs ace-queen. Suitedness variants: TT vs AQs and TT vs AQo.
The numbers
TT
a pair of tens
56.2%
equity
AQ
ace-queen
43.8%
equity
| Outcome | Share of boards |
|---|---|
| TT wins | 56.1% |
| AQ wins | 43.6% |
| Split pot | 0.4% |
Exact, not simulated. TT means a pair of tens and AQ means ace-queen: 96 legal ways to deal the two hands, and every one of the 1,712,304 possible five-card boards dealt for each — 164,381,184 board-and-hand combinations in total, each one scored by the same evaluator the calculator uses. Combinations that are the same hand with the suits renamed were counted once and weighted by how many they stand for: 6 distinct suit patterns stand in for all 96, which is the same answer for 16 times less work.
Why it comes out this way
The pair of tens is the only made hand right now, but both of ace-queen's cards are higher than it. Six cards in the deck — the aces and the queens — pair ace-queen up and put it in front.
That is why this is close rather than one-sided: the pair of tens wins 56.1%, ace-queen wins 43.6%. The pair of tens is ahead on every board that misses those six cards, which is most of them, but it is only ever one card from losing the lead.
Suitedness is part of the answer: against the pair of tens, AQs wins 45.7% and AQo wins 42.9%. The AQ wins figure in the table is the average of both, weighted the way they actually come out of a deck — one suited combination for every three offsuit.
The pot is split 0.4% of the time.
Open it in the calculator
The link below deals one typical version of this matchup — 10of spades10of hearts against Aof spadesQof diamonds — into the calculator, with both hands set and the board empty. Add community cards one at a time to watch the equity move, or change a card to see how much the suits are worth.