--- title: "A6o Combos: Count, Blockers, Board Pairs" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/combos/a6o.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/combos/a6o" last_updated: "2026-10-21" type: "reference" summary: "A6o is 12 combos of the 1,326 starting hands (0.90%). See how a known card or a board pair changes the count, plus its rank and equity." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/combos.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/combos/a5o.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/combos/q9s.md"] --- # A6o Combos: Count, Blockers, Board Pairs A6o is 12 combos of the 1,326 starting hands (0.90%). See how a known card or a board pair changes the count, plus its rank and equity. The answer is 12 combos. A6o covers 0.90% of the 1,326 starting hands and holds rank 42 of 169 on equity against a random hand, 57.68%. - Combos: 12 - Share of 1,326: 0.90% - Rank of 169: 42 - Equity vs random: 57.68% - This hand and stronger: 22.62% ## A6o: the 12 combos Count every ace and six pairing (16) and take away the suited ones (4): 12 combos are offsuit. Spelled out, A6o is these 12 holdings. The suits are what separate them from each other, and the ranks are the same in all. The 12 combos of A6o: As 6h, As 6d, As 6c, Ah 6s, Ah 6d, Ah 6c, Ad 6s, Ad 6h, Ad 6c, Ac 6s, Ac 6h, Ac 6d. ## How cards you can see change the count A card in your hand or on the board takes combos away from your opponent's possible hands. This table counts what is left of A6o for each rank of card you can see. A6o combos left after one known card of each rank: | Known card | A6o combos left | | --- | --- | | Ace | 9 | | King | 12 | | Queen | 12 | | Jack | 12 | | Ten | 12 | | Nine | 12 | | Eight | 12 | | Seven | 12 | | Six | 9 | | Five | 12 | | Four | 12 | | Three | 12 | | Two | 12 | With an ace or a six in view, 9 of the 12 combos of A6o remain, which removes 25%. Any card of a different rank leaves all 12 combos in play. ## When the board is paired Two board cards of one rank are out of reach for your opponent. The table gives the A6o combos that remain for each paired rank. A6o combos left after a pair of each rank on the board: | Board pair | A6o combos left | | --- | --- | | Aces | 6 | | Kings | 12 | | Queens | 12 | | Jacks | 12 | | Tens | 12 | | Nines | 12 | | Eights | 12 | | Sevens | 12 | | Sixes | 6 | | Fives | 12 | | Fours | 12 | | Threes | 12 | | Twos | 12 | Only a board pair of aces or sixes matters here: 6 combos of A6o remain, against 12 for any other pair. ## A worked example Say your hole cards are an ace and a two. That leaves 1,225 possible two-card hands for an opponent, and 9 of them are A6o: a 0.73% chance, roughly 1 in 136. Without the ace in your hand it would be 12 combos, 0.98%, roughly 1 in 102. ## How strong is A6o? A6o ranks number 42 of the 169 starting-hand classes, inside the top 60 classes. Against one random hand it has 57.68% equity, which counts a win as 1 and a tie as one half over every five-card board. 300 of the 1,326 starting hands are A6o or better by this ranking. That is 22.62% of deals. ## A6o against ranges of hands Tighter ranges are harder to beat. A6o gets 26.76% against the top 5 percent (60 combos), 29.13% against the top 10 percent (130 combos), 39.52% against the top 20 percent (264 combos), 44.94% against the top 30 percent (386 combos) and 51.56% against the top 50 percent (658 combos), and each figure counts every combo your cards leave possible. A6o equity against the strongest hands: | Opponent range | Combos in range | A6o equity | | --- | --- | --- | | Top 5 percent | 60 | 26.76% | | Top 10 percent | 130 | 29.13% | | Top 20 percent | 264 | 39.52% | | Top 30 percent | 386 | 44.94% | | Top 50 percent | 658 | 51.56% | The line sits between the top 30 and top 50 percent: A6o is behind the narrower range and ahead of the wider one. Check what A6o does to the top 10 percent range of 130 combos: averaged over its 12, 107.00 remain for an opponent. That is 23.00 combos fewer than the 130 an opponent has before you look. ## Hands next to A6o Rank says who is stronger against a random hand; a head-to-head says who is stronger against each other. A6o has 57.70% equity against A5o, the hand ranked number 41: it wins 39.59% of boards, ties 36.23% and loses 24.18%. It is the favorite in that matchup. A6o has 54.31% equity against Q9s, the hand ranked number 43: it wins 54.10% of boards, ties 0.43% and loses 45.47%. It is the favorite in that matchup. Switch A6o from offsuit to suited and you get A6s: 4 combos, rank 31, 59.91% equity. A6o has 3 times as many combos as A6s and is 2.22 points weaker against a random hand. Related to A6o: - [A5o combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/a5o.md) - [Q9s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/q9s.md) - [A6s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/a6s.md) - [Top 25 percent range](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/range/25.md) - [All starting hands](https://georgelipoker.com/combos.md) - [Hand ranking calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/hand-ranking-calculator.md) - [Poker equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md) ## Questions about A6o combos **How many combos of A6o are there?** 12 combos, which is 0.90% of the 1,326 two-card starting hands, so you are dealt A6o about 1 time in 110.5. **How many A6o combos are left if I hold an ace?** 9 combos of A6o remain out of 12. With a two as your other card, an opponent has it about 1 time in 136. **Is A6o stronger than A6s?** No: A6o has 57.68% equity against a random hand and ranks number 42, while A6s has 59.91% and ranks number 31. A6s has 4 combos to A6o's 12. ## How this was computed Every A6o combo was listed from the 1,326 two-card holdings. For each blocker or board-pair row, the combos that contain a visible card were dropped and the rest were counted. The rank and equity figures use our matchup table, which counts all 1,712,304 boards for each pair of classes. Ties are halves, and range matchups are weighted by live combos. Source: GeorgeLiPoker's own count of the 52-card deck and its preflop matchup table. ## Related - [Poker Combos: Count Every Starting Hand](https://georgelipoker.com/combos.md) - [A5o Combos: Count, Blockers, Board Pairs](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/a5o.md) - [Q9s Combos: Count, Blockers, Board Pairs](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/q9s.md)