--- title: "AKo vs AQo: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ako-vs-aqo.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ako-vs-aqo" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "AKo is a big favorite over AQo before the flop: 74.39% to 25.61% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ako-vs-ajo.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ako-vs-kqs.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ats-vs-aqo.md"] --- # AKo vs AQo: preflop equity AKo is a big favorite over AQo before the flop: 74.39% to 25.61% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. The exact count puts AKo at 74.39% and AQo at 25.61% when the two hands see all five board cards. ## AKo against AQo: the numbers **Exact preflop results for AKo against AQo, in percent** | 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. **Boards behind the percentages: 184,928,832 counted in all** | 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. **AKo 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 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. **AKo against AQo by flop texture, in percent** | 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%). **AKo 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 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. **AKo against AQo by suit overlap, in percent** | 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. - [Open AsKh against AdQc in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=AsKh&p2=AdQc) - [AKo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/ako.md) - [AQo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/aqo.md) - [AKo vs AJo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ako-vs-ajo.md) - [AKo vs KQs](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ako-vs-kqs.md) - [ATs vs AQo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ats-vs-aqo.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## 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. ## Related - [AKo vs AJo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ako-vs-ajo.md) - [AKo vs KQs: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ako-vs-kqs.md) - [ATs vs AQo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ats-vs-aqo.md)