--- title: "AKo vs T9o: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ako-vs-t9o.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ako-vs-t9o" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "AKo is a big favorite over T9o before the flop: 63.09% to 36.91% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ako-vs-98s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ako-vs-22.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ats-vs-t9o.md"] --- # AKo vs T9o: preflop equity AKo is a big favorite over T9o before the flop: 63.09% to 36.91% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Before any board card is dealt, AKo holds 63.09% equity against T9o, which leaves T9o with 36.91%. ## AKo against T9o: the numbers **Exact preflop results for AKo against T9o, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AKo | 62.880 | 0.427 | 36.693 | 63.094 | | T9o | 36.693 | 0.427 | 62.880 | 36.906 | AKo and T9o are both offsuit hands. The two hands share no rank, which makes this a pure matchup of card strength, straight chances and flush chances. AKo is ahead, but T9o is far from dead: it takes 367 of every 1,000 deals outright. Of every 100 boards, about 0.43 are split pots, and the equity figures already include them. For context, AKo sits at number 12 of 169 starting hands and T9o at number 78 when each is run against a random hand. **Boards behind the percentages: 246,571,776 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AKo | 155,044,000 | 1,053,000 | 90,475,000 | | T9o | 90,475,000 | 1,053,000 | 155,044,000 | The board total is exact, 144 deals at 1,712,304 boards each. Won, tied and lost counts are rounded to the nearest thousand from the five-decimal percentages. **AKo against T9o 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 | 1.710 | 1.590 | 2.725 | 0.585 | | T9o | 0.585 | 2.725 | 1.590 | 1.710 | The last column is the smallest pot odds, written as a pot-to-call ratio, at which a call breaks even with this equity. ## Who is ahead on which flops If you know the kind of flop that came, the numbers shift: AKo holds 65.93% on paired flops and 53.52% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower). AKo stays ahead on all five textures. **AKo against T9o by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | AKo wins | Ties | T9o wins | AKo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 24.110 | 65.017 | 0.161 | 34.822 | 65.097 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.042 | 53.109 | 0.822 | 46.069 | 53.520 | | Two-tone | 46.606 | 62.385 | 0.297 | 37.318 | 62.534 | | Monotone | 5.151 | 61.609 | 1.687 | 36.704 | 62.452 | | Paired | 17.091 | 65.625 | 0.616 | 33.759 | 65.933 | 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 Against one random hand instead, AKo holds 65.32% and T9o holds 51.53%. Facing each other changes that by -2.23 points for AKo and -14.62 points for T9o. **AKo and T9o 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 | 63.094 | 65.320 | -2.226 | 0.96592 | | AKo, rainbow, ten or higher | 65.097 | 65.320 | -0.223 | 0.99659 | | AKo, rainbow, nine or lower | 53.520 | 65.320 | -11.800 | 0.81935 | | AKo, two-tone | 62.534 | 65.320 | -2.786 | 0.95735 | | AKo, monotone | 62.452 | 65.320 | -2.868 | 0.95609 | | AKo, paired | 65.933 | 65.320 | +0.613 | 1.00938 | | T9o, all flops | 36.906 | 51.532 | -14.626 | 0.71618 | | T9o, rainbow, ten or higher | 34.903 | 51.532 | -16.629 | 0.67731 | | T9o, rainbow, nine or lower | 46.480 | 51.532 | -5.052 | 0.90196 | | T9o, two-tone | 37.466 | 51.532 | -14.066 | 0.72704 | | T9o, monotone | 37.548 | 51.532 | -13.984 | 0.72863 | | T9o, paired | 34.067 | 51.532 | -17.465 | 0.66108 | ## Does a shared suit matter? The suit split reads 63.20% for AKo with a shared suit and 62.58% without one. AKo does better with a shared suit, by 0.62 points. **AKo against T9o by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | AKo wins | Ties | T9o wins | AKo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 120 | 83.33 | 62.975 | 0.443 | 36.582 | 63.196 | | No shared suit | 24 | 16.67 | 62.407 | 0.348 | 37.245 | 62.581 | ## How often this matchup comes up The class pair covers 144 combinations of specific cards in a fixed seat order, 0.0089% of 1,624,350, and 288 (0.0177%) in either order. ## A worked example Worked example: both players commit $100, so $200 sits in the middle. Over every board, AKo's average share is $126.18 (a gain of $26.18) and T9o's is $73.82 (a loss of $26.18). Over a long run, 1,000 deals split into about 629 for AKo, 367 for T9o and 4 tied. ## The same matchup from the other side T9o against AKo adds nothing new: it is 36.91% for T9o and 63.09% for AKo, the same figures reversed. ## Keep exploring Try AsKh against Td9c 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 Td9c in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=AsKh&p2=Td9c) - [AKo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/ako.md) - [T9o combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/t9o.md) - [AKo vs 98s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ako-vs-98s.md) - [AKo vs 22](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ako-vs-22.md) - [ATs vs T9o](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ats-vs-t9o.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed The figures are counted, not estimated: 1,712,304 boards for every suit pattern of the 144 specific deals, with both seven-card hands compared each time. Equity gives half a win for a tie. For the flop rows, a board is counted once under each of the ten flops inside it. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [AKo vs 98s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ako-vs-98s.md) - [AKo vs 22: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ako-vs-22.md) - [ATs vs T9o: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ats-vs-t9o.md)