--- title: "AKs vs JTs: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aks-vs-jts.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aks-vs-jts" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "AKs is a big favorite over JTs before the flop: 62.01% to 37.99% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aks-vs-a2s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aks-vs-qto.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/77-vs-jts.md"] --- # AKs vs JTs: preflop equity AKs is a big favorite over JTs before the flop: 62.01% to 37.99% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Dealt all in against each other, AKs takes 62.01% of the pot on average and JTs takes the other 37.99%. ## AKs against JTs: the numbers **Exact preflop results for AKs against JTs, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AKs | 61.755 | 0.506 | 37.739 | 62.008 | | JTs | 37.739 | 0.506 | 61.755 | 37.992 | Here suited hands face each other, AKs on one side and JTs on the other. With no overlap in ranks, every card that pairs one hand is a card that does not pair the other. AKs is ahead, but JTs is far from dead: it takes 377 of every 1,000 deals outright. Of every 100 boards, about 0.51 are split pots, and the equity figures already include them. In the ranking of all 169 starting hands, AKs is number 8 and JTs is number 45. **Boards behind the percentages: 27,396,864 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AKs | 16,919,000 | 139,000 | 10,339,000 | | JTs | 10,339,000 | 139,000 | 16,919,000 | 16 specific deals times 1,712,304 boards gives the exact total. The won, tied and lost counts are approximations from the five-decimal percentages, rounded to the nearest thousand. **AKs 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AKs | 1.632 | 1.619 | 2.650 | 0.613 | | JTs | 0.613 | 2.650 | 1.619 | 1.632 | In the last column, a pot-to-call ratio at or above the figure makes a call break even or better at this equity. ## Who is ahead on which flops Low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) are the best for AKs (68.90%); monotone flops are the worst (59.28%). AKs stays ahead on all five textures. **AKs against JTs by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | AKs wins | Ties | JTs wins | AKs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.138 | 59.758 | 0.113 | 40.129 | 59.815 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.771 | 68.455 | 0.893 | 30.652 | 68.902 | | Two-tone | 46.727 | 61.128 | 0.271 | 38.601 | 61.264 | | Monotone | 5.273 | 57.575 | 3.415 | 39.010 | 59.283 | | Paired | 17.091 | 64.414 | 0.608 | 34.978 | 64.718 | Rainbow flops have three suits, two-tone flops repeat one suit, monotone flops are all one suit, and paired flops repeat a rank. ## Compared with a random hand A random hand would give AKs 67.05% and JTs 57.53%. Against each other the change is -5.04 points for AKs and -19.54 for JTs. **AKs 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AKs, all flops | 62.008 | 67.045 | -5.037 | 0.92487 | | AKs, rainbow, ten or higher | 59.815 | 67.045 | -7.230 | 0.89216 | | AKs, rainbow, nine or lower | 68.902 | 67.045 | +1.857 | 1.02770 | | AKs, two-tone | 61.264 | 67.045 | -5.781 | 0.91377 | | AKs, monotone | 59.283 | 67.045 | -7.762 | 0.88423 | | AKs, paired | 64.718 | 67.045 | -2.327 | 0.96529 | | JTs, all flops | 37.992 | 57.528 | -19.536 | 0.66041 | | JTs, rainbow, ten or higher | 40.185 | 57.528 | -17.343 | 0.69853 | | JTs, rainbow, nine or lower | 31.098 | 57.528 | -26.430 | 0.54057 | | JTs, two-tone | 38.736 | 57.528 | -18.792 | 0.67334 | | JTs, monotone | 40.717 | 57.528 | -16.811 | 0.70778 | | JTs, paired | 35.282 | 57.528 | -22.246 | 0.61330 | ## Does a shared suit matter? When the hands share a suit, AKs holds 64.26%; when they do not, it holds 61.26%. AKs does better with a shared suit, by 3.00 points. **AKs against JTs by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | AKs wins | Ties | JTs wins | AKs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 4 | 25.00 | 63.964 | 0.584 | 35.452 | 64.256 | | No shared suit | 12 | 75.00 | 61.018 | 0.480 | 38.502 | 61.258 | ## How often this matchup comes up This page stands for 16 specific-card matchups (0.0010% of 1,624,350 ordered deals), or 32 once you count the seats both ways (0.0020%). ## A worked example With $100 from each side, the $200 pot is split on average as $124.02 for AKs and $75.98 for JTs; the first side gains $24.02 per all-in and the second gives up $24.02. In 1,000 deals of exactly this matchup, expect about 618 won outright by AKs, about 377 won outright by JTs and about 5 split. ## The same matchup from the other side If you came looking for JTs against AKs, the numbers are the same with the hands swapped: 37.99% and 62.01%. ## Keep exploring Open the calculator with AsKs against JhTh 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 JhTh in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=AsKs&p2=JhTh) - [AKs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/aks.md) - [JTs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/jts.md) - [AKs vs A2s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aks-vs-a2s.md) - [AKs vs QTo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aks-vs-qto.md) - [77 vs JTs](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/77-vs-jts.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 16 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 A2s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aks-vs-a2s.md) - [AKs vs QTo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aks-vs-qto.md) - [77 vs JTs: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/77-vs-jts.md)