Ace-jack suited has 65.4% against a random hand, the 11th 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.
AJs ranks 11th of the 169 starting hands by against a random hand, in the top 7% 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 every seat.
Against one random hand, AJs has and AJo has 63.56%: 1.83 percentage points more for AJs.
against one to eight random opponents
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━ AJs: 65.39%
┄ AJo: 63.56%
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Equity by number of random opponents
Opponents
AJs
AJo
1
65.39%
63.56%
2
48.13%
45.57%
3
38.23%
35.43%
4
32.19%
29.28%
5
27.88%
24.21%
6
24.66%
21.02%
7
21.89%
18.39%
8
19.77%
16.26%
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.
AJs versus AJo: what suited changes
Against a random hand, AJs has 65.39% and AJo has 63.56%: a 1.83 percentage-point advantage for AJs. This is showdown equity, not a prediction of profit.
Exact flop probabilities for suited and offsuit starting hands
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.
AJs on the flop
The best five-card hand AJs holds after the flop, over all 19,600 flops. Pairs on the board count.
High card52.7%
One pair40.4%
Two pair4.0%
Three of a kind1.6%
Straight0.3%
Flush0.8%
Full house0.1%
Four of a kind0.0%
Straight flush0.0%
Draws on the flop, counted only when the hand has not already made that straight or flush or better.
Flush draw10.9%
Open-ended straight draw1.0%
Gutshot11.8%
How to play AJs
A suited ace makes the best possible flush when it flushes, and its ace makes the other player's strong aces less likely.
First in
Raise from every seat.
Facing a raise
3-bet from middle position, the cutoff and the button; call 60% and 3-bet 40% from the small blind; call 65% and 3-bet 35% from the big blind.
Facing a 3-bet
Call from every seat.
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 AJs 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.
