Any hand more 50/50 than 55 vs KJs?
 

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55 vs. 55
 

but i think you meant to exclude these.

Re: Any hand more 50/50 than 55 vs KJs?
 

55 wins 50.1966% against KJs, averaged over both arrangements of suits. That's not particularly close. 55 wins 50.0254% against KJs when there is no suit in common. Perhaps that is what you meant.

44 wins 50.0232% against JTo with no suits in common. That is slightly closer.

There are a few possible sources of pairs of hands close to 50%, such as pocket pairs versus connected overcards and low suited connectors versus low garbage hands. You can investigate them systematically using Two Dimes or PokerStove, but I won't bother. If you count the possibilities of hands that should be between 48-52 and 52-48, then divide 2% by the number, and you get a rough indication of how close to 50-50 you would expect some hand to be.

Re: Any hand more 50/50 than 55 vs KJs?
 

This web page by Alexander Selby says that this question was posed by Mike Caro in 1997, and the closest preflop matchup is ATs vs 33, .007% advantage to the pockets if one of the threes is the same suit as the A-T.


See the same page for a discussion of how to find the closest nontrivial three-way matchup, for a few different definitions of "nontrivial."

Re: Any hand more 50/50 than 55 vs KJs?
 

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