--- title: "AJs vs AQo: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajs-vs-aqo.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajs-vs-aqo" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "AQo is a big favorite over AJs before the flop: 69.66% to 30.34% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajs-vs-ajo.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajs-vs-kqs.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ako-vs-aqo.md"] --- # AJs vs AQo: preflop equity AQo is a big favorite over AJs before the flop: 69.66% to 30.34% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Counting every board, the equity split is 69.66% for AQo and 30.34% for AJs, so AQo leads by 39.32 points. ## AJs against AQo: the numbers **Exact preflop results for AJs against AQo, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AJs | 27.574 | 5.529 | 66.897 | 30.338 | | AQo | 66.897 | 5.529 | 27.574 | 69.662 | AJs, a suited hand, plays AQo, an offsuit hand. Sharing a rank is the signature of a dominated hand, since the weaker hand is usually out-kicked when the shared rank shows up. AQo is the clear favorite, though AJs gets there on roughly one board in 3. Split pots make up 5.53% of the boards, and both equity figures count them as half a win each. Place 11 of 169 belongs to AJs and place 14 belongs to AQo in the ranking against a random hand. **Boards behind the percentages: 61,642,944 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AJs | 16,997,000 | 3,408,000 | 41,237,000 | | AQo | 41,237,000 | 3,408,000 | 16,997,000 | The total is exact: 36 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. **AJs against AQo read as odds** | Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AJs | 0.436 | 3.627 | 1.495 | 2.296 | | AQo | 2.296 | 1.495 | 3.627 | 0.436 | 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 Split by what the flop looks like, AQo peaks at 81.47% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) and bottoms out at 64.40% on monotone flops. AQo stays ahead on all five textures, but the swing between them is large, so how the flop looks matters a great deal. **AJs against AQo by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | AJs wins | Ties | AQo wins | AJs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.177 | 28.851 | 3.088 | 68.061 | 30.395 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.771 | 15.876 | 5.317 | 78.807 | 18.534 | | Two-tone | 46.527 | 29.532 | 3.452 | 67.016 | 31.258 | | Monotone | 5.192 | 33.269 | 4.670 | 62.061 | 35.604 | | Paired | 17.333 | 24.148 | 14.718 | 61.134 | 31.507 | 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 The table below sets each hand against its own random-hand baseline: a change of -35.05 points for AJs, from 65.39%, and +5.23 for AQo, from 64.43%. **AJs and AQo 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AJs, all flops | 30.338 | 65.393 | -35.055 | 0.46393 | | AJs, rainbow, ten or higher | 30.395 | 65.393 | -34.998 | 0.46481 | | AJs, rainbow, nine or lower | 18.534 | 65.393 | -46.859 | 0.28342 | | AJs, two-tone | 31.258 | 65.393 | -34.135 | 0.47800 | | AJs, monotone | 35.604 | 65.393 | -29.789 | 0.54446 | | AJs, paired | 31.507 | 65.393 | -33.886 | 0.48181 | | AQo, all flops | 69.662 | 64.432 | +5.230 | 1.08117 | | AQo, rainbow, ten or higher | 69.605 | 64.432 | +5.173 | 1.08029 | | AQo, rainbow, nine or lower | 81.466 | 64.432 | +17.034 | 1.26437 | | AQo, two-tone | 68.742 | 64.432 | +4.310 | 1.06689 | | AQo, monotone | 64.396 | 64.432 | -0.036 | 0.99944 | | AQo, paired | 68.493 | 64.432 | +4.061 | 1.06303 | ## Does a shared suit matter? When the hands share a suit, AQo holds 70.42%; when they do not, it holds 69.28%. AQo does better with a shared suit, by 1.14 points. **AJs against AQo by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | AJs wins | Ties | AQo wins | AJs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 12 | 33.33 | 26.773 | 5.609 | 67.618 | 29.577 | | No shared suit | 24 | 66.67 | 27.975 | 5.488 | 66.537 | 30.719 | ## How often this matchup comes up The class pair covers 36 combinations of specific cards in a fixed seat order, 0.0022% of 1,624,350, and 72 (0.0044%) in either order. ## A worked example Say each player puts $100 in before the flop, making a $200 pot. On average AQo takes back $139.32 of it, which is $39.32 more than it put in, and AJs takes back $60.68, $39.32 less than it put in. Scaled to 1,000 deals, that is roughly 669 wins for AQo, 276 for AJs and 55 chopped pots. ## The same matchup from the other side AQo versus AJs is this same page seen from the other hand: 69.66% for AQo, 30.34% for AJs. ## Keep exploring Try AsJs against AhQd in the calculator: the hands share no suit, and every card can be changed. The links after it are the closest matchups in the ranking. - [Open AsJs against AhQd in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=AsJs&p2=AhQd) - [AJs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/ajs.md) - [AQo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/aqo.md) - [AJs vs AJo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajs-vs-ajo.md) - [AJs vs KQs](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajs-vs-kqs.md) - [AKo vs AQo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ako-vs-aqo.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed Each figure is a complete count over boards. Take the 36 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 - [AJs vs AJo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajs-vs-ajo.md) - [AJs vs KQs: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajs-vs-kqs.md) - [AKo vs AQo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ako-vs-aqo.md)