--- title: "AKs vs 22: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aks-vs-22.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aks-vs-22" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "AKs vs 22 is close to a coin flip before the flop: 49.89% to 50.11% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aks-vs-97s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aks-vs-87s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/77-vs-22.md"] --- # AKs vs 22: preflop equity AKs vs 22 is close to a coin flip before the flop: 49.89% to 50.11% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Dealt all in against each other, 22 takes 50.11% of the pot on average and AKs takes the other 49.89%. ## AKs against 22: the numbers **Exact preflop results for AKs against 22, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AKs | 49.569 | 0.649 | 49.782 | 49.893 | | 22 | 49.782 | 0.649 | 49.569 | 50.107 | One side is a suited hand, the other is a pocket pair. A pair against two higher cards is the classic race: the pair is usually a small favorite or close to even, and each overcard that pairs is a way to take the lead. With only 0.22 points between them, the board decides this matchup far more than the cards in hand. A split pot comes up on 0.65% of boards, so the wins and the equity differ by half of that. By strength against a random hand, AKs holds place 8 of 169 and 22 holds place 87. **Boards behind the percentages: 41,095,296 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AKs | 20,371,000 | 267,000 | 20,458,000 | | 22 | 20,458,000 | 267,000 | 20,371,000 | The board total is exact, 24 deals at 1,712,304 boards each. Won, tied and lost counts are rounded to the nearest thousand from the five-decimal percentages. **AKs against 22 read as odds** | Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AKs | 0.996 | 2.017 | 2.009 | 1.004 | | 22 | 1.004 | 2.009 | 2.017 | 0.996 | 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 Across the five flop textures 22's equity moves by 30.49 points, from 45.50% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better to 75.99% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower). On rainbow flops topped by a ten or better, two-tone flops and paired flops the numbers flip and AKs is the one ahead. **AKs against 22 by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | AKs wins | Ties | 22 wins | AKs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 24.595 | 54.404 | 0.199 | 45.397 | 54.504 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 6.314 | 23.311 | 1.407 | 75.282 | 24.015 | | Two-tone | 46.545 | 50.313 | 0.403 | 49.284 | 50.515 | | Monotone | 5.212 | 48.079 | 3.755 | 48.166 | 49.957 | | Paired | 17.334 | 50.720 | 0.738 | 48.542 | 51.089 | 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 Start from the random-hand figures, 67.05% for AKs and 50.33% for 22. This opponent changes them by -17.16 and -0.22 points. **AKs and 22 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AKs, all flops | 49.893 | 67.045 | -17.152 | 0.74417 | | AKs, rainbow, ten or higher | 54.504 | 67.045 | -12.541 | 0.81295 | | AKs, rainbow, nine or lower | 24.015 | 67.045 | -43.030 | 0.35819 | | AKs, two-tone | 50.515 | 67.045 | -16.530 | 0.75345 | | AKs, monotone | 49.957 | 67.045 | -17.088 | 0.74513 | | AKs, paired | 51.089 | 67.045 | -15.956 | 0.76201 | | 22, all flops | 50.107 | 50.334 | -0.227 | 0.99549 | | 22, rainbow, ten or higher | 45.496 | 50.334 | -4.838 | 0.90388 | | 22, rainbow, nine or lower | 75.985 | 50.334 | +25.651 | 1.50962 | | 22, two-tone | 49.485 | 50.334 | -0.849 | 0.98313 | | 22, monotone | 50.043 | 50.334 | -0.291 | 0.99422 | | 22, paired | 48.911 | 50.334 | -1.423 | 0.97173 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Suit overlap shows up in the numbers. With a suit in common 22 has 50.30% equity, and with none in common it has 49.92%. 22 does better with a shared suit, by 0.38 points. **AKs against 22 by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | AKs wins | Ties | 22 wins | AKs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 12 | 50.00 | 49.368 | 0.669 | 49.963 | 49.702 | | No shared suit | 12 | 50.00 | 49.770 | 0.629 | 49.601 | 50.084 | ## How often this matchup comes up You will meet this exact matchup 0.0030% of the time in a random heads-up deal: 48 of 1,624,350, counting either seat order. ## A worked example To see what the equity is worth, imagine $100 each in a $200 pot. 22 is worth $100.22 on average (+$0.22); AKs is worth $99.78 (-$0.22). Over a long run, 1,000 deals split into about 498 for 22, 496 for AKs and 6 tied. ## The same matchup from the other side Read it from the other side: 22 against AKs is the same matchup with the numbers swapped, so 22 holds 50.11% and AKs holds 49.89%. That address sends you back to this page. ## Keep exploring Open the calculator with AsKs against 2h2d already entered, a deal with no shared suit, and change any card to try your own hand. The matchups after it each swap one hand for a nearby one in the ranking. - [Open AsKs against 2h2d in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=AsKs&p2=2h2d) - [AKs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/aks.md) - [22 combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/22.md) - [AKs vs 97s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aks-vs-97s.md) - [AKs vs 87s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aks-vs-87s.md) - [77 vs 22](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/77-vs-22.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 24 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 - [AKs vs 97s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aks-vs-97s.md) - [AKs vs 87s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aks-vs-87s.md) - [77 vs 22: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/77-vs-22.md)