AKo
74.39%
Wins 72.06%, ties 4.67%
AQo
25.61%
Wins 23.27%, ties 4.67%
AKo against AQo: the numbers
| Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AKo | 72.058 | 4.672 | 23.270 | 74.394 |
| AQo | 23.270 | 4.672 | 72.058 | 25.606 |
Here offsuit hands face each other, AKo on one side and AQo on the other. The two hands share a rank, and the one with the better other card dominates: it wins most kicker battles when that shared rank hits.
AKo is the clear favorite, though AQo gets there on roughly one board in 4. Split pots make up 4.67% of the boards, and both equity figures count them as half a win each.
The hand ranking puts AKo at 12 and AQo at 14 out of 169 starting hands.
| Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about |
|---|---|---|---|
| AKo | 133,256,000 | 8,640,000 | 43,033,000 |
| AQo | 43,033,000 | 8,640,000 | 133,256,000 |
Exact total: 108 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.
| Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AKo | 2.905 | 1.388 | 4.297 | 0.344 |
| AQo | 0.344 | 4.297 | 1.388 | 2.905 |
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
AKo prefers low rainbow flops (nine high or lower), where it holds 84.98%, and likes monotone flops least, where it holds 69.11%. AKo stays ahead on all five textures, but the swing between them is large, so how the flop looks matters a great deal.
| Flop | Share of flops | AKo wins | Ties | AQo wins | AKo equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.275 | 71.101 | 2.026 | 26.873 | 72.114 |
| Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.771 | 82.164 | 5.628 | 12.208 | 84.978 |
| Two-tone | 46.477 | 73.183 | 2.873 | 23.944 | 74.620 |
| Monotone | 5.144 | 67.191 | 3.828 | 28.981 | 69.105 |
| Paired | 17.333 | 67.239 | 12.872 | 19.889 | 73.675 |
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
Relative to a random opponent, AKo changes by +9.07 points (baseline 65.32%) and AQo by -38.82 points (baseline 64.43%).
| Case | Equity here | Against a random hand | Change in points | Times the random-hand equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AKo, all flops | 74.394 | 65.320 | +9.074 | 1.13892 |
| AKo, rainbow, ten or higher | 72.114 | 65.320 | +6.794 | 1.10401 |
| AKo, rainbow, nine or lower | 84.978 | 65.320 | +19.658 | 1.30095 |
| AKo, two-tone | 74.620 | 65.320 | +9.300 | 1.14238 |
| AKo, monotone | 69.105 | 65.320 | +3.785 | 1.05795 |
| AKo, paired | 73.675 | 65.320 | +8.355 | 1.12791 |
| AQo, all flops | 25.606 | 64.432 | -38.826 | 0.39741 |
| AQo, rainbow, ten or higher | 27.886 | 64.432 | -36.546 | 0.43280 |
| AQo, rainbow, nine or lower | 15.022 | 64.432 | -49.410 | 0.23315 |
| AQo, two-tone | 25.380 | 64.432 | -39.052 | 0.39390 |
| AQo, monotone | 30.895 | 64.432 | -33.537 | 0.47950 |
| AQo, paired | 26.325 | 64.432 | -38.107 | 0.40857 |
Does a shared suit matter?
Of the deals of this matchup, 84 share a suit (AKo at 74.50%) and 24 do not (74.02%). AKo does better with a shared suit, by 0.48 points.
| Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | AKo wins | Ties | AQo wins | AKo equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Share a suit | 84 | 77.78 | 72.154 | 4.696 | 23.150 | 74.502 |
| No shared suit | 24 | 22.22 | 71.721 | 4.590 | 23.689 | 74.016 |
How often this matchup comes up
How often does it happen? 108 of the 1,624,350 ordered deals (0.0066%) are AKo against AQo, and 216 (0.0133%) if either hand may sit in either seat.
A worked example
Take a $200 pot built from $100 each. AKo's equity of 74.39% is worth $148.78, a $48.78 edge, and AQo's 25.61% is worth $51.22, which is $48.78 under its stake.
Per 1,000 deals: AKo wins about 720, AQo wins about 233, and about 47 end in a split pot.
The same matchup from the other side
The mirror image, AQo against AKo, is 25.61% to 74.39%, and its address redirects to this page.
Keep exploring
AsKh against AdQc 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.
How this was computed
All 1,712,304 five-card boards are dealt for every suit pattern among the 108 specific deals of AKo against AQo, and both hands are scored on each. That is a full count, so the percentages are exact. Ties are half a win each, and each board appears once per flop it contains.
Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used.
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