--- title: "AKo vs 65s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ako-vs-65s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ako-vs-65s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "Who is ahead, AKo or 65s? AKo leads 58.47% to 41.53% before the flop, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ako-vs-54s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ako-vs-64s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ats-vs-65s.md"] --- # AKo vs 65s: preflop equity Who is ahead, AKo or 65s? AKo leads 58.47% to 41.53% before the flop, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. If AKo and 65s get all the chips in before the flop, AKo owns 58.47% of the pot in the long run and 65s owns 41.53%. ## AKo against 65s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for AKo against 65s, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AKo | 58.230 | 0.476 | 41.294 | 58.468 | | 65s | 41.294 | 0.476 | 58.230 | 41.532 | One side is an offsuit hand, the other is a suited hand. With no overlap in ranks, every card that pairs one hand is a card that does not pair the other. A 16.94 point lead is real, and 65s still takes about 413 of every 1,000 deals outright. Split pots make up 0.48% of the boards, and both equity figures count them as half a win each. In the ranking of all 169 starting hands, AKo is number 12 and 65s is number 128. **Boards behind the percentages: 82,190,592 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AKo | 47,860,000 | 391,000 | 33,940,000 | | 65s | 33,940,000 | 391,000 | 47,860,000 | The total is exact: 48 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. **AKo against 65s 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 | 1.408 | 1.717 | 2.422 | 0.710 | | 65s | 0.710 | 2.422 | 1.717 | 1.408 | The final column gives the least the pot must offer for each unit called for a call to break even at this equity. ## Who is ahead on which flops Across the five flop textures AKo's equity moves by 37.56 points, from 29.44% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) to 67.00% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better. On low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) the numbers flip and 65s is the one ahead. **AKo against 65s by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | AKo wins | Ties | 65s wins | AKo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 24.717 | 66.916 | 0.167 | 32.917 | 66.999 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 6.313 | 28.993 | 0.903 | 70.104 | 29.444 | | Two-tone | 46.667 | 56.559 | 0.300 | 43.141 | 56.709 | | Monotone | 5.212 | 55.856 | 2.429 | 41.715 | 57.071 | | Paired | 17.091 | 61.754 | 0.649 | 37.597 | 62.078 | 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 Each hand has a baseline against a random hand: 65.32% for AKo, 43.13% for 65s. Here the change is -6.85 and -1.60 points. **AKo and 65s 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 | 58.468 | 65.320 | -6.852 | 0.89510 | | AKo, rainbow, ten or higher | 66.999 | 65.320 | +1.679 | 1.02570 | | AKo, rainbow, nine or lower | 29.444 | 65.320 | -35.876 | 0.45077 | | AKo, two-tone | 56.709 | 65.320 | -8.611 | 0.86817 | | AKo, monotone | 57.071 | 65.320 | -8.249 | 0.87371 | | AKo, paired | 62.078 | 65.320 | -3.242 | 0.95037 | | 65s, all flops | 41.532 | 43.133 | -1.601 | 0.96288 | | 65s, rainbow, ten or higher | 33.001 | 43.133 | -10.132 | 0.76510 | | 65s, rainbow, nine or lower | 70.556 | 43.133 | +27.423 | 1.63578 | | 65s, two-tone | 43.291 | 43.133 | +0.158 | 1.00366 | | 65s, monotone | 42.929 | 43.133 | -0.204 | 0.99527 | | 65s, paired | 37.922 | 43.133 | -5.211 | 0.87919 | ## Does a shared suit matter? The suit split reads 59.15% for AKo with a shared suit and 57.78% without one. AKo does better with a shared suit, by 1.37 points. **AKo against 65s by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | AKo wins | Ties | 65s wins | AKo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 24 | 50.00 | 58.893 | 0.516 | 40.591 | 59.151 | | No shared suit | 24 | 50.00 | 57.566 | 0.436 | 41.998 | 57.784 | ## How often this matchup comes up Exactly 48 specific deals fit this matchup in one seat order, which is 0.0030% of 1,624,350; both orders together give 96, or 0.0059%. ## A worked example Try it with money: two players each put in $100 and the whole board runs out every possible way. AKo averages $116.94 from the $200, up $16.94; 65s averages $83.06, down $16.94. In 1,000 deals of exactly this matchup, expect about 582 won outright by AKo, about 413 won outright by 65s and about 5 split. ## The same matchup from the other side 65s versus AKo is this same page seen from the other hand: 41.53% for 65s, 58.47% for AKo. ## Keep exploring AsKh against 6d5d 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 6d5d in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=AsKh&p2=6d5d) - [AKo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/ako.md) - [65s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/65s.md) - [AKo vs 54s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ako-vs-54s.md) - [AKo vs 64s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ako-vs-64s.md) - [ATs vs 65s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ats-vs-65s.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed This is an exact count with no sampling. For the 48 ways to deal one AKo and one 65s without reusing a card, grouped by suit pattern, every one of the 1,712,304 possible boards is dealt and both seven-card hands are compared. A tie counts as half a win in the equity column, and each board is counted once under each of its ten three-card flops. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [AKo vs 54s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ako-vs-54s.md) - [AKo vs 64s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ako-vs-64s.md) - [ATs vs 65s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ats-vs-65s.md)