--- title: "AKo vs 22: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ako-vs-22.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ako-vs-22" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "AKo vs 22 is close to a coin flip before the flop: 47.35% to 52.65% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ako-vs-97s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ako-vs-87s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ats-vs-22.md"] --- # AKo vs 22: preflop equity AKo vs 22 is close to a coin flip before the flop: 47.35% to 52.65% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. In equity, 22 against AKo stands at 52.65% to 47.35%, a gap of 5.30 points. ## AKo against 22: the numbers **Exact preflop results for AKo against 22, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AKo | 47.042 | 0.617 | 52.341 | 47.351 | | 22 | 52.341 | 0.617 | 47.042 | 52.649 | The first hand is an offsuit hand; the second is a pocket pair. This is a pair against two overcards, a matchup that stays close because the other hand only needs one of its ranks to appear. That is a slim edge: neither hand is far ahead. A split pot comes up on 0.62% of boards, so the wins and the equity differ by half of that. Place 12 of 169 belongs to AKo and place 87 belongs to 22 in the ranking against a random hand. **Boards behind the percentages: 123,285,888 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AKo | 57,996,000 | 761,000 | 64,529,000 | | 22 | 64,529,000 | 761,000 | 57,996,000 | Exact total: 72 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. **AKo against 22 read as odds** | Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AKo | 0.899 | 2.126 | 1.911 | 1.112 | | 22 | 1.112 | 1.911 | 2.126 | 0.899 | 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 By flop texture, 22's equity runs from 46.96% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better up to 78.65% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower). Watch for rainbow flops topped by a ten or better and monotone flops: on those flops AKo holds the better equity. **AKo against 22 by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | AKo wins | Ties | 22 wins | AKo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 24.717 | 52.937 | 0.208 | 46.855 | 53.041 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 6.314 | 20.613 | 1.474 | 77.913 | 21.350 | | Two-tone | 46.485 | 46.717 | 0.445 | 52.838 | 46.939 | | Monotone | 5.151 | 48.692 | 2.669 | 48.639 | 50.026 | | Paired | 17.333 | 48.648 | 0.738 | 50.614 | 49.017 | 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 Compared with a random opponent, this matchup shifts AKo from 65.32% by -17.97 points and 22 from 50.33% by +2.32 points. **AKo and 22 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AKo, all flops | 47.351 | 65.320 | -17.969 | 0.72491 | | AKo, rainbow, ten or higher | 53.041 | 65.320 | -12.279 | 0.81202 | | AKo, rainbow, nine or lower | 21.350 | 65.320 | -43.970 | 0.32685 | | AKo, two-tone | 46.939 | 65.320 | -18.381 | 0.71860 | | AKo, monotone | 50.026 | 65.320 | -15.294 | 0.76586 | | AKo, paired | 49.017 | 65.320 | -16.303 | 0.75041 | | 22, all flops | 52.649 | 50.334 | +2.315 | 1.04599 | | 22, rainbow, ten or higher | 46.959 | 50.334 | -3.375 | 0.93295 | | 22, rainbow, nine or lower | 78.650 | 50.334 | +28.316 | 1.56256 | | 22, two-tone | 53.061 | 50.334 | +2.727 | 1.05418 | | 22, monotone | 49.974 | 50.334 | -0.360 | 0.99285 | | 22, paired | 50.983 | 50.334 | +0.649 | 1.01289 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Looking only at deals where the hands share a suit, 22 has 52.57%; looking only at deals where they do not, 53.04%. 22 does better with no shared suit, by 0.47 points. **AKo against 22 by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | AKo wins | Ties | 22 wins | AKo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 60 | 83.33 | 47.117 | 0.624 | 52.259 | 47.429 | | No shared suit | 12 | 16.67 | 46.669 | 0.581 | 52.750 | 46.960 | ## How often this matchup comes up Exactly 72 specific deals fit this matchup in one seat order, which is 0.0044% of 1,624,350; both orders together give 144, or 0.0089%. ## A worked example A $100 all-in from each player makes a $200 pot, and the exact equity says 22 gets $105.30 of it on average and AKo gets $94.70. In 1,000 deals of exactly this matchup, expect about 523 won outright by 22, about 471 won outright by AKo and about 6 split. ## The same matchup from the other side Swap the hands and you get 22 with 52.65% against AKo with 47.35%. We keep one page per matchup, with the better-ranked hand first. ## Keep exploring AsKh against 2d2c 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 AsKh against 2d2c in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=AsKh&p2=2d2c) - [AKo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/ako.md) - [22 combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/22.md) - [AKo vs 97s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ako-vs-97s.md) - [AKo vs 87s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ako-vs-87s.md) - [ATs vs 22](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ats-vs-22.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 72 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 - [AKo vs 97s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ako-vs-97s.md) - [AKo vs 87s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ako-vs-87s.md) - [ATs vs 22: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ats-vs-22.md)