--- title: "AKs vs QJo: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aks-vs-qjo.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aks-vs-qjo" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "AKs is a big favorite over QJo before the flop: 66.45% to 33.56% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aks-vs-k9o.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aks-vs-q9s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/77-vs-qjo.md"] --- # AKs vs QJo: preflop equity AKs is a big favorite over QJo before the flop: 66.45% to 33.56% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Counting every board, the equity split is 66.45% for AKs and 33.55% for QJo, so AKs leads by 32.90 points. ## AKs against QJo: the numbers **Exact preflop results for AKs against QJo, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AKs | 66.203 | 0.484 | 33.313 | 66.445 | | QJo | 33.313 | 0.484 | 66.203 | 33.555 | AKs and QJo are a suited hand and an offsuit hand, in that order. Neither hand shares a rank with the other, so this is a contest of high cards, connection and suits. A lead of 32.90 points is large but not decisive: QJo still takes about 333 of every 1,000 deals. Of every 100 boards, about 0.48 are split pots, and the equity figures already include them. Among the 169 starting hands, AKs is number 8 and QJo is number 39 by strength against a random hand. **Boards behind the percentages: 82,190,592 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AKs | 54,413,000 | 398,000 | 27,380,000 | | QJo | 27,380,000 | 398,000 | 54,413,000 | The board total is exact, 48 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 QJo 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 | 1.980 | 1.511 | 3.002 | 0.505 | | QJo | 0.505 | 3.002 | 1.511 | 1.980 | 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 Break the boards down by their first three cards and AKs is strongest on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) (76.33%) and weakest on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better (62.04%). AKs stays ahead on all five textures. **AKs against QJo by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | AKs wins | Ties | QJo wins | AKs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.260 | 62.000 | 0.071 | 37.929 | 62.035 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.770 | 75.737 | 1.187 | 23.076 | 76.330 | | Two-tone | 46.667 | 66.515 | 0.317 | 33.168 | 66.674 | | Monotone | 5.212 | 60.874 | 2.395 | 36.731 | 62.072 | | Paired | 17.091 | 68.359 | 0.600 | 31.041 | 68.659 | A rainbow flop shows three suits, a two-tone flop repeats one suit, a monotone flop is a single suit, and a paired flop repeats a rank. ## Compared with a random hand A random hand would give AKs 67.05% and QJo 58.14%. Against each other the change is -0.60 points for AKs and -24.59 for QJo. **AKs and QJo 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 | 66.445 | 67.045 | -0.600 | 0.99105 | | AKs, rainbow, ten or higher | 62.035 | 67.045 | -5.010 | 0.92527 | | AKs, rainbow, nine or lower | 76.330 | 67.045 | +9.285 | 1.13849 | | AKs, two-tone | 66.674 | 67.045 | -0.371 | 0.99447 | | AKs, monotone | 62.072 | 67.045 | -4.973 | 0.92583 | | AKs, paired | 68.659 | 67.045 | +1.614 | 1.02407 | | QJo, all flops | 33.555 | 58.135 | -24.580 | 0.57719 | | QJo, rainbow, ten or higher | 37.965 | 58.135 | -20.170 | 0.65305 | | QJo, rainbow, nine or lower | 23.670 | 58.135 | -34.465 | 0.40716 | | QJo, two-tone | 33.326 | 58.135 | -24.809 | 0.57325 | | QJo, monotone | 37.928 | 58.135 | -20.207 | 0.65241 | | QJo, paired | 31.341 | 58.135 | -26.794 | 0.53911 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Looking only at deals where the hands share a suit, AKs has 66.25%; looking only at deals where they do not, 66.64%. AKs does better with no shared suit, by 0.39 points. **AKs against QJo by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | AKs wins | Ties | QJo wins | AKs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 24 | 50.00 | 65.987 | 0.524 | 33.489 | 66.249 | | No shared suit | 24 | 50.00 | 66.419 | 0.444 | 33.137 | 66.641 | ## How often this matchup comes up Exactly 48 specific deals fit this matchup in one seat order, which is 0.0030% of 1,624,350; both orders together give 96, or 0.0059%. ## A worked example Worked example: both players commit $100, so $200 sits in the middle. Over every board, AKs' average share is $132.90 (a gain of $32.90) and QJo's is $67.10 (a loss of $32.90). Over a long run, 1,000 deals split into about 662 for AKs, 333 for QJo and 5 tied. ## The same matchup from the other side The mirror image, QJo against AKs, is 33.55% to 66.45%, and its address redirects to this page. ## Keep exploring Open the calculator with AsKs against QhJd 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 QhJd in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=AsKs&p2=QhJd) - [AKs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/aks.md) - [QJo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/qjo.md) - [AKs vs K9o](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aks-vs-k9o.md) - [AKs vs Q9s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aks-vs-q9s.md) - [77 vs QJo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/77-vs-qjo.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed This is an exact count with no sampling. For the 48 ways to deal one AKs and one QJo without reusing a card, grouped by suit pattern, every one of the 1,712,304 possible boards is dealt and both seven-card hands are compared. A tie counts as half a win in the equity column, and each board is counted once under each of its ten three-card flops. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [AKs vs K9o: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aks-vs-k9o.md) - [AKs vs Q9s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aks-vs-q9s.md) - [77 vs QJo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/77-vs-qjo.md)