Pair of twos has 50.3% against a random hand, the 87th best of the 169 starting hands. Below are its odds against every hand and on the flop, and what the charts do with it from each seat.
22 ranks 87th of the 169 starting hands by against a random hand, in the top 51% of hand classes. Classes have different numbers of card combinations; this is not a deal-frequency percentile. First in at 100bb, the charts say: raise from middle position, the cutoff, the button and the small blind; fold from under the gun.
Against one random hand, 22 has and AA has 85.20%: 34.87 percentage points less for 22.
against one to eight random opponents
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━ 22: 50.33%
┄ AA: 85.20%
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Equity by number of random opponents
Opponents
22
AA
1
50.33%
85.20%
2
30.73%
73.27%
3
21.78%
63.90%
4
17.73%
55.94%
5
15.60%
49.15%
6
14.15%
43.51%
7
13.30%
38.82%
8
12.45%
34.78%
The one-opponent values are exact. Two to eight opponents use 100,000 seeded deals per point; small differences can be sampling noise. All opponents have random hands. These curves do not measure profit or account for position, betting or opponents folding.
22 on the flop
The best five-card hand 22 holds after the flop, over all 19,600 flops. Pairs on the board count.
One pair71.8%
Two pair16.2%
Three of a kind10.8%
Full house1.0%
Four of a kind0.2%
Draws on the flop, counted only when the hand has not already made that straight or flush or better.
Flush draw2.2%
Open-ended straight draw0.3%
Gutshot2.0%
How to play 22
A pocket pair is made before the flop. It flops a set or better on 12.0% of flops; the rest of the time it plays as one pair.
First in
Raise from middle position, the cutoff, the button and the small blind; fold from under the gun.
Facing a raise
Call from the big blind; fold from middle position and the cutoff; 3-bet 40%, fold 35% and call 25% from the button; call 50% and fold 50% from the small blind.
Facing a 3-bet
Call from the button and the big blind; fold from under the gun; call 50% and fold 50% from middle position; call 65% and fold 35% from the cutoff.
From the six-handed 100bb charts. A percentage means the chart mixes actions with this hand.
Six-handed cash charts at 100 big blinds. A spot marked mix plays 22 more than one way.
Where these numbers come from
Heads-up equity comes from the same preflop table the odds calculator uses, which averages each pair of hands over every board and suit pattern. Against a random hand, your own two cards make some hands less likely: holding an ace leaves three aces for the other player, so each hand counts once for every way it can still be dealt. Equity against several players is sampled with a fixed seed, so it can move by a few tenths of a point from the exact figure. The flop figures count every one of the 19,600 flops.
