--- title: "AA vs KQs: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aa-vs-kqs.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aa-vs-kqs" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "AA is a big favorite over KQs before the flop: 82.94% to 17.06% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aa-vs-66.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aa-vs-a9s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-kqs.md"] --- # AA vs KQs: preflop equity AA is a big favorite over KQs before the flop: 82.94% to 17.06% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Averaged over every possible board, AA is ahead of KQs by 65.88 points of equity, 82.94% to 17.06%. ## AA against KQs: the numbers **Exact preflop results for AA against KQs, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AA | 82.727 | 0.418 | 16.855 | 82.936 | | KQs | 16.855 | 0.418 | 82.727 | 17.064 | We compare a pocket pair with a suited hand. The pair outranks both of the other hand's cards, which is why the pair is a strong favorite. A gap this wide means KQs is in trouble before the flop and has few good runouts. 0.42% of boards are ties, so the equity of each hand is its win rate plus half of that. For context, AA sits at number 1 of 169 starting hands and KQs at number 16 when each is run against a random hand. **Boards behind the percentages: 41,095,296 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AA | 33,997,000 | 172,000 | 6,927,000 | | KQs | 6,927,000 | 172,000 | 33,997,000 | Exact total: 24 deals times 1,712,304 boards. The other three counts come from the five-decimal percentages and are rounded to the nearest thousand, so read them as approximate. **AA against KQs 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 | 4.860 | 1.209 | 5.933 | 0.206 | | KQs | 0.206 | 5.933 | 1.209 | 4.860 | 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 Break the boards down by their first three cards and AA is strongest on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) (94.28%) and weakest on monotone flops (76.71%). 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 KQs by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | AA wins | Ties | KQs wins | AA equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.138 | 81.983 | 0.109 | 17.908 | 82.038 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.771 | 93.650 | 1.265 | 5.085 | 94.282 | | Two-tone | 46.545 | 81.091 | 0.359 | 18.550 | 81.271 | | Monotone | 5.212 | 75.495 | 2.425 | 22.080 | 76.708 | | Paired | 17.334 | 85.388 | 0.007 | 14.605 | 85.392 | 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 A random hand would give AA 85.20% and KQs 63.40%. Against each other the change is -2.26 points for AA and -46.34 for KQs. **AA and KQs 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 | 82.936 | 85.204 | -2.268 | 0.97338 | | AA, rainbow, ten or higher | 82.038 | 85.204 | -3.166 | 0.96284 | | AA, rainbow, nine or lower | 94.282 | 85.204 | +9.078 | 1.10654 | | AA, two-tone | 81.271 | 85.204 | -3.933 | 0.95384 | | AA, monotone | 76.708 | 85.204 | -8.496 | 0.90029 | | AA, paired | 85.392 | 85.204 | +0.188 | 1.00221 | | KQs, all flops | 17.064 | 63.400 | -46.336 | 0.26915 | | KQs, rainbow, ten or higher | 17.962 | 63.400 | -45.438 | 0.28331 | | KQs, rainbow, nine or lower | 5.718 | 63.400 | -57.682 | 0.09019 | | KQs, two-tone | 18.729 | 63.400 | -44.671 | 0.29541 | | KQs, monotone | 23.292 | 63.400 | -40.108 | 0.36738 | | KQs, paired | 14.608 | 63.400 | -48.792 | 0.23041 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Of the deals of this matchup, 12 share a suit (AA at 83.56%) and 12 do not (82.32%). AA does better with a shared suit, by 1.24 points. **AA against KQs by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | AA wins | Ties | KQs wins | AA equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 12 | 50.00 | 83.326 | 0.460 | 16.214 | 83.556 | | No shared suit | 12 | 50.00 | 82.127 | 0.377 | 17.496 | 82.315 | ## How often this matchup comes up This page stands for 24 specific-card matchups (0.0015% of 1,624,350 ordered deals), or 48 once you count the seats both ways (0.0030%). ## A worked example Put $100 each into a $200 pot and deal every board once: AA averages $165.88 back, ahead of its $100 by $65.88, while KQs averages $34.12, short of its $100 by $65.88. Scaled to 1,000 deals, that is roughly 827 wins for AA, 169 for KQs and 4 chopped pots. ## The same matchup from the other side Read it from the other side: KQs against AA is the same matchup with the numbers swapped, so KQs holds 17.06% and AA holds 82.94%. That address sends you back to this page. ## Keep exploring AsAh against KdQd 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 AsAh against KdQd in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=AsAh&p2=KdQd) - [AA combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/aa.md) - [KQs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/kqs.md) - [AA vs 66](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aa-vs-66.md) - [AA vs A9s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aa-vs-a9s.md) - [KK vs KQs](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-kqs.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed The figures are counted, not estimated: 1,712,304 boards for every suit pattern of the 24 specific deals, with both seven-card hands compared each time. Equity gives half a win for a tie. For the flop rows, a board is counted once under each of the ten flops inside it. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [AA vs 66: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aa-vs-66.md) - [AA vs A9s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aa-vs-a9s.md) - [KK vs KQs: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-kqs.md)