--- title: "AJs vs KQo: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajs-vs-kqo.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajs-vs-kqo" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "AJs is a big favorite over KQo before the flop: 61.81% to 38.19% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajs-vs-a7s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajs-vs-a9o.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ako-vs-kqo.md"] --- # AJs vs KQo: preflop equity AJs is a big favorite over KQo before the flop: 61.81% to 38.19% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. The exact count puts AJs at 61.81% and KQo at 38.19% when the two hands see all five board cards. ## AJs against KQo: the numbers **Exact preflop results for AJs against KQo, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AJs | 61.569 | 0.484 | 37.947 | 61.811 | | KQo | 37.947 | 0.484 | 61.569 | 38.189 | The first hand is a suited hand; the second is an offsuit hand. With no overlap in ranks, every card that pairs one hand is a card that does not pair the other. The lead is steady rather than large, and the flop still has plenty of say in who wins. The tie share is 0.48%: on those boards the pot is chopped and neither hand wins outright. Ranked by equity against a random hand, AJs is number 11 of the 169 starting hands and KQo is number 23. **Boards behind the percentages: 82,190,592 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AJs | 50,604,000 | 398,000 | 31,189,000 | | KQo | 31,189,000 | 398,000 | 50,604,000 | The board total is exact, 48 deals at 1,712,304 boards each. Won, tied and lost counts are rounded to the nearest thousand from the five-decimal percentages. **AJs against KQo 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 | 1.619 | 1.624 | 2.635 | 0.618 | | KQo | 0.618 | 2.635 | 1.624 | 1.619 | 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, AJs peaks at 76.88% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) and bottoms out at 54.75% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better. AJs stays ahead on all five textures, but the swing between them is large, so how the flop looks matters a great deal. **AJs against KQo by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | AJs wins | Ties | KQo wins | AJs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.260 | 54.713 | 0.071 | 45.216 | 54.749 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.770 | 76.282 | 1.187 | 22.531 | 76.875 | | Two-tone | 46.667 | 61.412 | 0.317 | 38.271 | 61.571 | | Monotone | 5.212 | 56.671 | 2.395 | 40.934 | 57.869 | | Paired | 17.091 | 66.131 | 0.600 | 33.269 | 66.431 | 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 Relative to a random opponent, AJs changes by -3.58 points (baseline 65.39%) and KQo by -23.27 points (baseline 61.46%). **AJs and KQo 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 | 61.811 | 65.393 | -3.582 | 0.94522 | | AJs, rainbow, ten or higher | 54.749 | 65.393 | -10.644 | 0.83723 | | AJs, rainbow, nine or lower | 76.875 | 65.393 | +11.482 | 1.17558 | | AJs, two-tone | 61.571 | 65.393 | -3.822 | 0.94155 | | AJs, monotone | 57.869 | 65.393 | -7.524 | 0.88494 | | AJs, paired | 66.431 | 65.393 | +1.038 | 1.01587 | | KQo, all flops | 38.189 | 61.456 | -23.267 | 0.62140 | | KQo, rainbow, ten or higher | 45.251 | 61.456 | -16.205 | 0.73632 | | KQo, rainbow, nine or lower | 23.125 | 61.456 | -38.331 | 0.37629 | | KQo, two-tone | 38.429 | 61.456 | -23.027 | 0.62531 | | KQo, monotone | 42.131 | 61.456 | -19.325 | 0.68555 | | KQo, paired | 33.569 | 61.456 | -27.887 | 0.54623 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Looking only at deals where the hands share a suit, AJs has 61.52%; looking only at deals where they do not, 62.11%. AJs does better with no shared suit, by 0.59 points. **AJs against KQo by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | AJs wins | Ties | KQo wins | AJs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 24 | 50.00 | 61.255 | 0.524 | 38.221 | 61.517 | | No shared suit | 24 | 50.00 | 61.883 | 0.444 | 37.673 | 62.105 | ## How often this matchup comes up AJs against KQo is made up of 48 specific-card matchups in one seat order, 0.0030% of the 1,624,350 ordered deals, and 96 counting both seat orders, 0.0059%. ## A worked example Put $100 each into a $200 pot and deal every board once: AJs averages $123.62 back, ahead of its $100 by $23.62, while KQo averages $76.38, short of its $100 by $23.62. A thousand deals look like this: AJs takes 616, KQo takes 379, 5 are ties. ## The same matchup from the other side The reversed view, KQo against AJs, shows 38.19% for KQo and 61.81% for AJs. It is the same count, so it redirects here. ## Keep exploring Open the calculator with AsJs against KhQd 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 AsJs against KhQd in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=AsJs&p2=KhQd) - [AJs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/ajs.md) - [KQo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/kqo.md) - [AJs vs A7s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajs-vs-a7s.md) - [AJs vs A9o](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajs-vs-a9o.md) - [AKo vs KQo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ako-vs-kqo.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed We counted every case. Each suit pattern of the 48 specific AJs against KQo deals meets all 1,712,304 boards, and the better five-card hand wins; a split pot is half a win each. The flop table reads each board under all ten of its three-card flops. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [AJs vs A7s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajs-vs-a7s.md) - [AJs vs A9o: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajs-vs-a9o.md) - [AKo vs KQo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ako-vs-kqo.md)