--- title: "A6s vs A2s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a6s-vs-a2s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a6s-vs-a2s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "Who is ahead, A6s or A2s? A6s leads 57.57% to 42.43% before the flop, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a6s-vs-qto.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a6s-vs-44.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kto-vs-a2s.md"] --- # A6s vs A2s: preflop equity Who is ahead, A6s or A2s? A6s leads 57.57% to 42.43% before the flop, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. In equity, A6s against A2s stands at 57.57% to 42.43%, a gap of 15.14 points. ## A6s against A2s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for A6s against A2s, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | A6s | 41.604 | 31.932 | 26.464 | 57.570 | | A2s | 26.464 | 31.932 | 41.604 | 42.430 | Both hands are suited hands: A6s and A2s. Because the hands share one rank, the one with the higher kicker is ahead when that rank pairs and the other hand is mostly drawing. A 15.14 point lead is real, and A2s still takes about 265 of every 1,000 deals outright. The tie share is 31.93%: on those boards the pot is chopped and neither hand wins outright. Among the 169 starting hands, A6s is number 31 and A2s is number 46 by strength against a random hand. **Boards behind the percentages: 20,547,648 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | A6s | 8,549,000 | 6,561,000 | 5,438,000 | | A2s | 5,438,000 | 6,561,000 | 8,549,000 | The board total is exact, 12 deals at 1,712,304 boards each. Won, tied and lost counts are rounded to the nearest thousand from the five-decimal percentages. **A6s against A2s read as odds** | Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | A6s | 1.357 | 2.404 | 3.779 | 0.737 | | A2s | 0.737 | 3.779 | 2.404 | 1.357 | The final column gives the least the pot must offer for each unit called for a call to break even at this equity. ## Who is ahead on which flops Break the boards down by their first three cards and A6s is strongest on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) (62.39%) and weakest on paired flops (54.00%). A6s stays ahead on all five textures. **A6s against A2s by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | A6s wins | Ties | A2s wins | A6s equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 24.526 | 40.449 | 35.761 | 23.790 | 58.330 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 6.383 | 55.295 | 14.194 | 30.511 | 62.392 | | Two-tone | 46.543 | 44.286 | 27.475 | 28.239 | 58.023 | | Monotone | 5.215 | 44.781 | 22.317 | 32.902 | 55.939 | | Paired | 17.333 | 30.043 | 47.905 | 22.052 | 53.995 | Flop types: rainbow means three different suits, two-tone means one suit twice, monotone means one suit three times, paired means a repeated rank. ## Compared with a random hand Compared with a random opponent, this matchup shifts A6s from 59.91% by -2.34 points and A2s from 57.38% by -14.95 points. **A6s and A2s here compared with each against a random hand, in percent** | Case | Equity here | Against a random hand | Change in points | Times the random-hand equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | A6s, all flops | 57.570 | 59.906 | -2.336 | 0.96101 | | A6s, rainbow, ten or higher | 58.330 | 59.906 | -1.576 | 0.97369 | | A6s, rainbow, nine or lower | 62.392 | 59.906 | +2.486 | 1.04150 | | A6s, two-tone | 58.023 | 59.906 | -1.883 | 0.96857 | | A6s, monotone | 55.939 | 59.906 | -3.967 | 0.93378 | | A6s, paired | 53.995 | 59.906 | -5.911 | 0.90133 | | A2s, all flops | 42.430 | 57.379 | -14.949 | 0.73947 | | A2s, rainbow, ten or higher | 41.670 | 57.379 | -15.709 | 0.72622 | | A2s, rainbow, nine or lower | 37.608 | 57.379 | -19.771 | 0.65543 | | A2s, two-tone | 41.977 | 57.379 | -15.402 | 0.73157 | | A2s, monotone | 44.061 | 57.379 | -13.318 | 0.76789 | | A2s, paired | 46.005 | 57.379 | -11.374 | 0.80177 | ## Does a shared suit matter? The hands cannot hold a suit in common here, which leaves a single case and a single number: 57.57% for A6s. **A6s against A2s by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | A6s wins | Ties | A2s wins | A6s equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 0 | 0.00 | not possible | not possible | not possible | not possible | | No shared suit | 12 | 100.00 | 41.604 | 31.932 | 26.464 | 57.570 | ## How often this matchup comes up Counting specific cards, A6s against A2s appears in 12 of the 1,624,350 ordered heads-up deals (0.0007%), and in 24 when the seats are swapped too (0.0015%). ## A worked example Take a $200 pot built from $100 each. A6s' equity of 57.57% is worth $115.14, a $15.14 edge, and A2s' 42.43% is worth $84.86, which is $15.14 under its stake. Out of 1,000 deals you should see around 416 outright wins for A6s, 265 for A2s, and 319 split pots. ## The same matchup from the other side Read it from the other side: A2s against A6s is the same matchup with the numbers swapped, so A2s holds 42.43% and A6s holds 57.57%. That address sends you back to this page. ## Keep exploring The calculator link fills in As6s against Ah2h, a deal where the two hands share no suit. Change any card to test your own hand. The neighboring matchups below swap one of the two hands for one of similar strength. - [Open As6s against Ah2h in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=As6s&p2=Ah2h) - [A6s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/a6s.md) - [A2s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/a2s.md) - [A6s vs QTo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a6s-vs-qto.md) - [A6s vs 44](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a6s-vs-44.md) - [KTo vs A2s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kto-vs-a2s.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed Each figure is a complete count over boards. Take the 12 specific deals, group them by suit pattern, deal all 1,712,304 boards against each, and compare the two seven-card hands. Equity counts a tie as half a win; the flop rows use every one of a board's ten flops. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [A6s vs QTo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a6s-vs-qto.md) - [A6s vs 44: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a6s-vs-44.md) - [KTo vs A2s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kto-vs-a2s.md)