--- title: "AA vs AQs: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aa-vs-aqs.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aa-vs-aqs" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "AA is a big favorite over AQs before the flop: 87.46% to 12.54% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aa-vs-ajs.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aa-vs-ako.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-aqs.md"] --- # AA vs AQs: preflop equity AA is a big favorite over AQs before the flop: 87.46% to 12.54% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Dealt all in against each other, AA takes 87.46% of the pot on average and AQs takes the other 12.54%. ## AA against AQs: the numbers **Exact preflop results for AA against AQs, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AA | 86.838 | 1.245 | 11.917 | 87.461 | | AQs | 11.917 | 1.245 | 86.838 | 12.539 | AA and AQs are a pocket pair and a suited hand, in that order. The non-pair hand shares a rank with the pair, so two of its outs for pairing are blocked by the pair itself. A gap this wide means AQs is in trouble before the flop and has few good runouts. A split pot comes up on 1.25% of boards, so the wins and the equity differ by half of that. Among the 169 starting hands, AA is number 1 and AQs is number 10 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AA | 17,843,000 | 256,000 | 2,449,000 | | AQs | 2,449,000 | 256,000 | 17,843,000 | The total is exact: 12 specific deals times 1,712,304 boards. The three counts are approximate, worked out from the percentages to five decimals and rounded to the nearest thousand. **AA against AQs read as odds** | Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AA | 6.975 | 1.152 | 8.391 | 0.143 | | AQs | 0.143 | 8.391 | 1.152 | 6.975 | In the last column, a pot-to-call ratio at or above the figure makes a call break even or better at this equity. ## Who is ahead on which flops The flop changes the picture. AA does best on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower), at 94.74%, and worst on monotone flops, at 77.38%. AA stays ahead on all five textures, but the swing between them is large, so how the flop looks matters a great deal. **AA against AQs by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | AA wins | Ties | AQs wins | AA equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.011 | 89.228 | 1.007 | 9.765 | 89.732 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.771 | 93.350 | 2.773 | 3.877 | 94.736 | | Two-tone | 46.236 | 85.348 | 1.314 | 13.338 | 86.005 | | Monotone | 5.151 | 76.210 | 2.333 | 21.457 | 77.376 | | Paired | 17.831 | 87.852 | 0.393 | 11.755 | 88.048 | A rainbow flop shows three suits, a two-tone flop repeats one suit, a monotone flop is a single suit, and a paired flop repeats a rank. ## Compared with a random hand How much does the opponent matter? Compared with its random-hand 85.20%, AA changes by +2.26 points, and AQs, from 66.21%, by -53.67. **AA and AQs 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AA, all flops | 87.461 | 85.204 | +2.257 | 1.02649 | | AA, rainbow, ten or higher | 89.732 | 85.204 | +4.528 | 1.05314 | | AA, rainbow, nine or lower | 94.736 | 85.204 | +9.532 | 1.11187 | | AA, two-tone | 86.005 | 85.204 | +0.801 | 1.00940 | | AA, monotone | 77.376 | 85.204 | -7.828 | 0.90813 | | AA, paired | 88.048 | 85.204 | +2.844 | 1.03338 | | AQs, all flops | 12.539 | 66.209 | -53.670 | 0.18939 | | AQs, rainbow, ten or higher | 10.268 | 66.209 | -55.941 | 0.15508 | | AQs, rainbow, nine or lower | 5.264 | 66.209 | -60.945 | 0.07951 | | AQs, two-tone | 13.995 | 66.209 | -52.214 | 0.21138 | | AQs, monotone | 22.624 | 66.209 | -43.585 | 0.34171 | | AQs, paired | 11.952 | 66.209 | -54.257 | 0.18052 | ## Does a shared suit matter? The hands cannot hold a suit in common here, which leaves a single case and a single number: 87.46% for AA. **AA against AQs by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | AA wins | Ties | AQs wins | AA equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 0 | 0.00 | not possible | not possible | not possible | not possible | | No shared suit | 12 | 100.00 | 86.838 | 1.245 | 11.917 | 87.461 | ## How often this matchup comes up You will meet this exact matchup 0.0015% of the time in a random heads-up deal: 24 of 1,624,350, counting either seat order. ## A worked example To see what the equity is worth, imagine $100 each in a $200 pot. AA is worth $174.92 on average (+$74.92); AQs is worth $25.08 (-$74.92). Over a long run, 1,000 deals split into about 868 for AA, 119 for AQs and 13 tied. ## The same matchup from the other side AQs versus AA is this same page seen from the other hand: 12.54% for AQs, 87.46% for AA. ## Keep exploring Open the calculator with AsAh against AdQd already entered, a deal with no shared suit, and change any card to try your own hand. The matchups after it each swap one hand for a nearby one in the ranking. - [Open AsAh against AdQd in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=AsAh&p2=AdQd) - [AA combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/aa.md) - [AQs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/aqs.md) - [AA vs AJs](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aa-vs-ajs.md) - [AA vs AKo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aa-vs-ako.md) - [KK vs AQs](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-aqs.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed Nothing here is simulated. The 12 deals of AA against AQs fall into a few suit patterns, each dealt against all 1,712,304 boards, with both best five-card hands compared on every board. Ties give each hand half a win, and the flop rows count a board under each of its ten flops. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [AA vs AJs: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aa-vs-ajs.md) - [AA vs AKo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aa-vs-ako.md) - [KK vs AQs: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-aqs.md)