--- title: "AKs vs 64s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aks-vs-64s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aks-vs-64s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "AKs is a big favorite over 64s before the flop: 62.35% to 37.65% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aks-vs-53s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aks-vs-43s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/77-vs-64s.md"] --- # AKs vs 64s: preflop equity AKs is a big favorite over 64s before the flop: 62.35% to 37.65% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Over all 1,712,304 boards that can follow this deal, AKs finishes with 62.35% of the pot and 64s with 37.65%. ## AKs against 64s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for AKs against 64s, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AKs | 62.083 | 0.527 | 37.390 | 62.346 | | 64s | 37.390 | 0.527 | 62.083 | 37.654 | Each side holds one of the suited hands: AKs and 64s. The two hands share no rank, which makes this a pure matchup of card strength, straight chances and flush chances. The lead is steady rather than large, and the flop still has plenty of say in who wins. The tie share is 0.53%: on those boards the pot is chopped and neither hand wins outright. In the ranking of all 169 starting hands, AKs is number 8 and 64s is number 138. **Boards behind the percentages: 27,396,864 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AKs | 17,009,000 | 144,000 | 10,244,000 | | 64s | 10,244,000 | 144,000 | 17,009,000 | The total is exact: 16 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. **AKs against 64s 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 | 1.656 | 1.611 | 2.675 | 0.604 | | 64s | 0.604 | 2.675 | 1.611 | 1.656 | 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 By flop texture, AKs' equity runs from 34.94% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) up to 69.41% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better. Low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) favor 64s, the hand that is behind overall. **AKs against 64s by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | AKs wins | Ties | 64s wins | AKs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 24.595 | 69.333 | 0.160 | 30.507 | 69.413 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 6.314 | 34.473 | 0.927 | 64.600 | 34.936 | | Two-tone | 46.727 | 61.414 | 0.286 | 38.300 | 61.557 | | Monotone | 5.273 | 57.888 | 3.479 | 38.633 | 59.628 | | Paired | 17.091 | 64.973 | 0.653 | 34.374 | 65.300 | 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 The table below sets each hand against its own random-hand baseline: a change of -4.70 points for AKs, from 67.05%, and -3.68 for 64s, from 41.33%. **AKs and 64s 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 | 62.346 | 67.045 | -4.699 | 0.92991 | | AKs, rainbow, ten or higher | 69.413 | 67.045 | +2.368 | 1.03532 | | AKs, rainbow, nine or lower | 34.936 | 67.045 | -32.109 | 0.52108 | | AKs, two-tone | 61.557 | 67.045 | -5.488 | 0.91814 | | AKs, monotone | 59.628 | 67.045 | -7.417 | 0.88937 | | AKs, paired | 65.300 | 67.045 | -1.745 | 0.97397 | | 64s, all flops | 37.654 | 41.333 | -3.679 | 0.91099 | | 64s, rainbow, ten or higher | 30.587 | 41.333 | -10.746 | 0.74001 | | 64s, rainbow, nine or lower | 65.064 | 41.333 | +23.731 | 1.57414 | | 64s, two-tone | 38.443 | 41.333 | -2.890 | 0.93008 | | 64s, monotone | 40.372 | 41.333 | -0.961 | 0.97675 | | 64s, paired | 34.700 | 41.333 | -6.633 | 0.83952 | ## Does a shared suit matter? When the hands share a suit, AKs holds 64.59%; when they do not, it holds 61.60%. AKs does better with a shared suit, by 2.99 points. **AKs against 64s by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | AKs wins | Ties | 64s wins | AKs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 4 | 25.00 | 64.282 | 0.607 | 35.111 | 64.585 | | No shared suit | 12 | 75.00 | 61.350 | 0.500 | 38.150 | 61.600 | ## How often this matchup comes up You will meet this exact matchup 0.0020% of the time in a random heads-up deal: 32 of 1,624,350, counting either seat order. ## A worked example Take a $200 pot built from $100 each. AKs' equity of 62.35% is worth $124.70, a $24.70 edge, and 64s' 37.65% is worth $75.30, which is $24.70 under its stake. Think in thousands: about 621 of 1,000 go to AKs, about 374 go to 64s, and about 5 are chopped. ## The same matchup from the other side The reversed view, 64s against AKs, shows 37.65% for 64s and 62.35% for AKs. It is the same count, so it redirects here. ## Keep exploring AsKs against 6h4h 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 AsKs against 6h4h in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=AsKs&p2=6h4h) - [AKs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/aks.md) - [64s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/64s.md) - [AKs vs 53s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aks-vs-53s.md) - [AKs vs 43s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aks-vs-43s.md) - [77 vs 64s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/77-vs-64s.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed Each figure is a complete count over boards. Take the 16 specific deals, group them by suit pattern, deal all 1,712,304 boards against each, and compare the two seven-card hands. Equity counts a tie as half a win; the flop rows use every one of a board's ten flops. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [AKs vs 53s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aks-vs-53s.md) - [AKs vs 43s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aks-vs-43s.md) - [77 vs 64s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/77-vs-64s.md)