--- title: "AKo vs JTs: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ako-vs-jts.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ako-vs-jts" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "Who is ahead, AKo or JTs? AKo leads 59.49% to 40.51% before the flop, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ako-vs-a2s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ako-vs-qto.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ats-vs-jts.md"] --- # AKo vs JTs: preflop equity Who is ahead, AKo or JTs? AKo leads 59.49% to 40.51% before the flop, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. The exact count puts AKo at 59.49% and JTs at 40.51% when the two hands see all five board cards. ## AKo against JTs: the numbers **Exact preflop results for AKo against JTs, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AKo | 59.255 | 0.463 | 40.282 | 59.486 | | JTs | 40.282 | 0.463 | 59.255 | 40.514 | Here an offsuit hand (AKo) meets a suited hand (JTs). Neither hand shares a rank with the other, so this is a contest of high cards, connection and suits. The lead is steady rather than large, and the flop still has plenty of say in who wins. About 0.46% of boards chop the pot, which is why equity sits slightly above the win figure for both hands. AKo ranks number 12 of 169 starting hands, and JTs ranks number 45, by equity against a random hand. **Boards behind the percentages: 82,190,592 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AKo | 48,702,000 | 381,000 | 33,108,000 | | JTs | 33,108,000 | 381,000 | 48,702,000 | 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 JTs 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 | 1.468 | 1.688 | 2.482 | 0.681 | | JTs | 0.681 | 2.482 | 1.688 | 1.468 | The last column is the break-even price: the pot odds a call needs to offer, as a ratio of pot to call. ## Who is ahead on which flops The flop changes the picture. AKo does best on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower), at 67.21%, and worst on two-tone flops, at 57.87%. AKo stays ahead on all five textures. **AKo against JTs by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | AKo wins | Ties | JTs wins | AKo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.260 | 58.214 | 0.118 | 41.668 | 58.273 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.770 | 66.751 | 0.924 | 32.325 | 67.213 | | Two-tone | 46.667 | 57.720 | 0.292 | 41.988 | 57.866 | | Monotone | 5.212 | 56.765 | 2.383 | 40.852 | 57.956 | | Paired | 17.091 | 62.210 | 0.608 | 37.182 | 62.514 | 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 Each hand has a baseline against a random hand: 65.32% for AKo, 57.53% for JTs. Here the change is -5.83 and -17.02 points. **AKo and JTs 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 | 59.486 | 65.320 | -5.834 | 0.91069 | | AKo, rainbow, ten or higher | 58.273 | 65.320 | -7.047 | 0.89212 | | AKo, rainbow, nine or lower | 67.213 | 65.320 | +1.893 | 1.02898 | | AKo, two-tone | 57.866 | 65.320 | -7.454 | 0.88588 | | AKo, monotone | 57.956 | 65.320 | -7.364 | 0.88726 | | AKo, paired | 62.514 | 65.320 | -2.806 | 0.95704 | | JTs, all flops | 40.514 | 57.528 | -17.014 | 0.70425 | | JTs, rainbow, ten or higher | 41.727 | 57.528 | -15.801 | 0.72533 | | JTs, rainbow, nine or lower | 32.787 | 57.528 | -24.741 | 0.56993 | | JTs, two-tone | 42.134 | 57.528 | -15.394 | 0.73241 | | JTs, monotone | 42.044 | 57.528 | -15.484 | 0.73084 | | JTs, paired | 37.486 | 57.528 | -20.042 | 0.65161 | ## Does a shared suit matter? The suit split reads 60.15% for AKo with a shared suit and 58.82% without one. AKo does better with a shared suit, by 1.33 points. **AKo against JTs by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | AKo wins | Ties | JTs wins | AKo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 24 | 50.00 | 59.900 | 0.504 | 39.596 | 60.152 | | No shared suit | 24 | 50.00 | 58.609 | 0.423 | 40.968 | 58.820 | ## How often this matchup comes up Out of 1,624,350 ways to deal two seats two cards each, 48 are AKo in one seat and JTs in the other (0.0030%); with the seats swapped too, 96 (0.0059%). ## A worked example Put $100 each into a $200 pot and deal every board once: AKo averages $118.98 back, ahead of its $100 by $18.98, while JTs averages $81.02, short of its $100 by $18.98. Per 1,000 deals: AKo wins about 592, JTs wins about 403, and about 5 end in a split pot. ## The same matchup from the other side If you came looking for JTs against AKo, the numbers are the same with the hands swapped: 40.51% and 59.49%. ## Keep exploring Try AsKh against JdTd in the calculator: the hands share no suit, and every card can be changed. The links after it are the closest matchups in the ranking. - [Open AsKh against JdTd in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=AsKh&p2=JdTd) - [AKo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/ako.md) - [JTs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/jts.md) - [AKo vs A2s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ako-vs-a2s.md) - [AKo vs QTo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ako-vs-qto.md) - [ATs vs JTs](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ats-vs-jts.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 48 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 A2s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ako-vs-a2s.md) - [AKo vs QTo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ako-vs-qto.md) - [ATs vs JTs: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ats-vs-jts.md)