AA vs JJ: pocket aces against pocket jacks
All in before the flop, pocket aces win 80.9%, pocket jacks win 18.6%, and 0.4% of boards split the pot.
AA wins 80.9%Split 0.4%JJ wins 18.6%
Jacks need one of the two jacks left, or a straight or a flush: aces win 80.9%.
Every board, counted
36ways to deal AA against JJ
1,712,304boards for each of them
81.1%AA’s share of the pot, a split counted as half
Nothing here is sampled: every five-card board was dealt for every way the two hands can be held, and each showdown scored with the hand ranking Quads teaches.
Suits move it a little. Pocket aces’s share of the pot runs from 80.5%, with A♠ A♥ against J♦ J♣, to 81.8%, with A♠ A♥ against J♠ J♥.
The two hands
- AA, pocket acesNumber 1 of 169, and 85.2% of the pot against one random hand.
- JJ, pocket jacksNumber 4 of 169, and 77.5% of the pot against one random hand.
More match-ups with these hands
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