--- title: "A6s vs KTo: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a6s-vs-kto.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a6s-vs-kto" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "Who is ahead, A6s or KTo? A6s leads 59.36% to 40.64% before the flop, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a6s-vs-qts.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a6s-vs-a4s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a5s-vs-kto.md"] --- # A6s vs KTo: preflop equity Who is ahead, A6s or KTo? A6s leads 59.36% to 40.64% before the flop, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Averaged over every possible board, A6s is ahead of KTo by 18.72 points of equity, 59.36% to 40.64%. ## A6s against KTo: the numbers **Exact preflop results for A6s against KTo, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | A6s | 59.140 | 0.438 | 40.422 | 59.359 | | KTo | 40.422 | 0.438 | 59.140 | 40.641 | A6s is a suited hand and KTo is an offsuit hand. With no overlap in ranks, every card that pairs one hand is a card that does not pair the other. A 18.72 point lead is real, and KTo still takes about 404 of every 1,000 deals outright. The tie share is 0.44%: on those boards the pot is chopped and neither hand wins outright. Ranked by equity against a random hand, A6s is number 31 of the 169 starting hands and KTo is number 33. **Boards behind the percentages: 82,190,592 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | A6s | 48,608,000 | 360,000 | 33,223,000 | | KTo | 33,223,000 | 360,000 | 48,608,000 | 48 specific deals times 1,712,304 boards gives the exact total. The won, tied and lost counts are approximations from the five-decimal percentages, rounded to the nearest thousand. **A6s against KTo 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 | 1.461 | 1.691 | 2.474 | 0.685 | | KTo | 0.685 | 2.474 | 1.691 | 1.461 | The last column is the break-even price: the pot odds a call needs to offer, as a ratio of pot to call. ## Who is ahead on which flops A6s prefers low rainbow flops (nine high or lower), where it holds 76.16%, and likes rainbow flops topped by a ten or better least, where it holds 51.81%. A6s stays ahead on all five textures, but the swing between them is large, so how the flop looks matters a great deal. **A6s against KTo by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | A6s wins | Ties | KTo wins | A6s equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.988 | 51.745 | 0.130 | 48.125 | 51.810 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.042 | 75.760 | 0.791 | 23.449 | 76.155 | | Two-tone | 46.667 | 58.852 | 0.259 | 40.889 | 58.981 | | Monotone | 5.212 | 54.920 | 2.364 | 42.716 | 56.102 | | Paired | 17.091 | 64.744 | 0.628 | 34.628 | 65.058 | Read the flop types this way: rainbow has three suits, two-tone has two cards of one suit, monotone has three, and paired repeats a rank. ## Compared with a random hand Compared with a random opponent, this matchup shifts A6s from 59.91% by -0.55 points and KTo from 59.74% by -19.10 points. **A6s and KTo 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 | 59.359 | 59.906 | -0.547 | 0.99087 | | A6s, rainbow, ten or higher | 51.810 | 59.906 | -8.096 | 0.86485 | | A6s, rainbow, nine or lower | 76.155 | 59.906 | +16.249 | 1.27124 | | A6s, two-tone | 58.981 | 59.906 | -0.925 | 0.98456 | | A6s, monotone | 56.102 | 59.906 | -3.804 | 0.93650 | | A6s, paired | 65.058 | 59.906 | +5.152 | 1.08600 | | KTo, all flops | 40.641 | 59.739 | -19.098 | 0.68031 | | KTo, rainbow, ten or higher | 48.190 | 59.739 | -11.549 | 0.80668 | | KTo, rainbow, nine or lower | 23.845 | 59.739 | -35.894 | 0.39915 | | KTo, two-tone | 41.019 | 59.739 | -18.720 | 0.68664 | | KTo, monotone | 43.898 | 59.739 | -15.841 | 0.73483 | | KTo, paired | 34.942 | 59.739 | -24.797 | 0.58491 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Split by suits, the deals give A6s 59.01% when the hands overlap in a suit and 59.70% when they do not. A6s does better with no shared suit, by 0.69 points. **A6s against KTo by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | A6s wins | Ties | KTo wins | A6s equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 24 | 50.00 | 58.774 | 0.479 | 40.747 | 59.013 | | No shared suit | 24 | 50.00 | 59.506 | 0.397 | 40.097 | 59.704 | ## How often this matchup comes up Counting specific cards, A6s against KTo appears in 48 of the 1,624,350 ordered heads-up deals (0.0030%), and in 96 when the seats are swapped too (0.0059%). ## A worked example Worked example: both players commit $100, so $200 sits in the middle. Over every board, A6s' average share is $118.72 (a gain of $18.72) and KTo's is $81.28 (a loss of $18.72). In 1,000 deals of exactly this matchup, expect about 592 won outright by A6s, about 404 won outright by KTo and about 4 split. ## The same matchup from the other side Read it from the other side: KTo against A6s is the same matchup with the numbers swapped, so KTo holds 40.64% and A6s holds 59.36%. That address sends you back to this page. ## Keep exploring As6s against KhTd is a ready-made deal for the calculator, with no suit in common between the hands. The neighboring matchups below replace one hand with another of similar strength. - [Open As6s against KhTd in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=As6s&p2=KhTd) - [A6s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/a6s.md) - [KTo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/kto.md) - [A6s vs QTs](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a6s-vs-qts.md) - [A6s vs A4s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a6s-vs-a4s.md) - [A5s vs KTo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a5s-vs-kto.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed The page is built from a full enumeration: 1,712,304 boards, every suit pattern of the 48 specific deals, both seven-card hands evaluated. A tie is worth half a win to each hand, and a board is tallied under each of its ten possible flops for the texture rows. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [A6s vs QTs: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a6s-vs-qts.md) - [A6s vs A4s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a6s-vs-a4s.md) - [A5s vs KTo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a5s-vs-kto.md)