A4o preflop: ace-four offsuit

Ace-four offsuit has 56.7% against a random hand, the 49th 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.

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Quick answers

Is A4o a good hand?

A4o ranks 49th of the 169 starting hands by against a random hand, in the top 29% 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 the button and the small blind; fold from under the gun, middle position and the cutoff.

What is A4o's equity against AA?

7.7% all in before the flop.

How often does A4o hit the flop?

A4o makes one pair or better on 46.4% of flops, counting pairs on the board, and two pair or better on 6.0%.

A4o against common hands

for A4o all in before the flop. The line marks 50%; linked hands have their own matchup page.
  • AA7.7%
  • KK29.4%
  • QQ29.4%
  • JJ29.4%
  • TT29.5%
  • 7730.6%
  • 2247.2%
  • AKs25.7%
  • AKo26.9%
  • AQo27.5%
  • AJo28.4%
  • KQs54.6%
  • KQo58.0%
  • JTs51.6%
  • T9s51.7%
  • 72o65.2%

A4o against every hand

Each cell is A4o's in percent against that hand, all in before the flop. Blue cells are hands A4o is ahead of, red cells hands it is behind.

Under 20%20–35%35–45%45–55%55–65%65–80%80% and up

A4o equity against each of the 169 hands, in percent
AA 8AKs 26AQs 26AJs 27ATs 28A9s 31A8s 33A7s 36A6s 40A5s 42A4s 48A3s 50A2s 51
AKo 27KK 29KQs 55KJs 54KTs 54K9s 55K8s 57K7s 57K6s 57K5s 58K4s 72K3s 62K2s 62
AQo 27KQo 58QQ 29QJs 53QTs 53Q9s 54Q8s 55Q7s 57Q6s 56Q5s 58Q4s 71Q3s 61Q2s 61
AJo 28KJo 58QJo 56JJ 29JTs 52J9s 53J8s 54J7s 55J6s 56J5s 57J4s 71J3s 61J2s 61
ATo 30KTo 57QTo 56JTo 55TT 30T9s 52T8s 53T7s 54T6s 55T5s 57T4s 71T3s 61T2s 61
A9o 32K9o 59Q9o 57J9o 56T9o 5599 3098s 5297s 5396s 5495s 5694s 7193s 6192s 61
A8o 35K8o 60Q8o 59J8o 57T8o 5698o 5588 3087s 5286s 5385s 5584s 6983s 6182s 61
A7o 38K7o 60Q7o 60J7o 59T7o 5797o 5687o 5677 3176s 5375s 5574s 6873s 6072s 61
A6o 42K6o 60Q6o 60J6o 60T6o 5896o 5786o 5676o 5666 3165s 5464s 6763s 5962s 61
A5o 44K5o 61Q5o 61J5o 61T5o 6195o 6085o 5975o 5865o 5755 3054s 6753s 5852s 60
A4o 50K4o 76Q4o 75J4o 75T4o 7594o 7584o 7374o 7264o 7154o 7144 3343s 7042s 71
A3o 53K3o 65Q3o 65J3o 65T3o 6493o 6483o 6573o 6463o 6353o 6243o 7433 4632s 64
A2o 53K2o 66Q2o 65J2o 65T2o 6492o 6582o 6572o 6562o 6452o 6342o 7632o 6722 47

Cells with a matchup page are links.

Compare starting hands

Against one random hand, A4o has and A4s has 59.03%: 2.30 percentage points less for A4o.

against one to eight random opponents

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0%25%50%75%100%12345678OpponentsA4o, 1 opponent: 56.73%A4o, 2 opponents: 37.18%A4o, 3 opponents: 27.10%A4o, 4 opponents: 21.31%A4o, 5 opponents: 17.39%A4o, 6 opponents: 14.85%A4o, 7 opponents: 12.87%A4o, 8 opponents: 11.14%A4s, 1 opponent: 59.03%A4s, 2 opponents: 40.42%A4s, 3 opponents: 30.85%A4s, 4 opponents: 25.46%A4s, 5 opponents: 21.73%A4s, 6 opponents: 18.93%A4s, 7 opponents: 16.86%A4s, 8 opponents: 15.54%
  • A4o: 56.73%
  • A4s: 59.03%
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Equity by number of random opponents
OpponentsA4oA4s
156.73%59.03%
237.18%40.42%
327.10%30.85%
421.31%25.46%
517.39%21.73%
614.85%18.93%
712.87%16.86%
811.14%15.54%

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.

A4s versus A4o: what suited changes

Against a random hand, A4s has 59.03% and A4o has 56.73%: a 2.30 percentage-point advantage for A4s. This is showdown equity, not a prediction of profit.

Exact flop probabilities for suited and offsuit starting hands
Hand
A4o2.24%0.00%
A4s10.94%0.84%

All 19,600 flops are counted. A flush draw has four cards of one suit, uses at least one hole card, and has not already made a flush or better. The flush column excludes straight flushes.

A4o on the flop

The best five-card hand A4o holds after the flop, over all 19,600 flops. Pairs on the board count.
  • High card53.6%
  • One pair40.4%
  • Two pair4.0%
  • Three of a kind1.6%
  • Straight0.3%
  • Full house0.1%
  • Four of a kind0.0%
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 draw1.0%
  • Gutshot12.0%

How to play A4o

The charts below show where this hand is worth playing.

First in

Raise from the button and the small blind; fold from under the gun, middle position and the cutoff.

Facing a raise

Fold from middle position, the cutoff, the button and the small blind; call 70% and fold 30% from the big blind.

Facing a 3-bet

Fold from every seat.

From the six-handed 100bb charts. A percentage means the chart mixes actions with this hand.

What each chart does with A4o

Six-handed cash charts at 100 big blinds. A spot marked mix plays A4o 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.

All 169 starting hands