--- title: "AKs vs QTs: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aks-vs-qts.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aks-vs-qts" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "AKs is a big favorite over QTs before the flop: 63.22% to 36.78% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aks-vs-a4s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aks-vs-a3s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/77-vs-qts.md"] --- # AKs vs QTs: preflop equity AKs is a big favorite over QTs before the flop: 63.22% to 36.78% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. In equity, AKs against QTs stands at 63.22% to 36.78%, a gap of 26.44 points. ## AKs against QTs: the numbers **Exact preflop results for AKs against QTs, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AKs | 62.966 | 0.514 | 36.520 | 63.223 | | QTs | 36.520 | 0.514 | 62.966 | 36.777 | Both hands are suited hands: AKs and QTs. With no overlap in ranks, every card that pairs one hand is a card that does not pair the other. That is a modest edge, the kind that shows up over many hands and is easy to miss in one. Ties are part of the picture: 0.51% of boards end in a split pot, and each side counts that as half a win. In the ranking of all 169 starting hands, AKs is number 8 and QTs is number 34. **Boards behind the percentages: 27,396,864 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AKs | 17,251,000 | 141,000 | 10,005,000 | | QTs | 10,005,000 | 141,000 | 17,251,000 | Exact total: 16 deals times 1,712,304 boards. The other three counts come from the five-decimal percentages and are rounded to the nearest thousand, so read them as approximate. **AKs against QTs 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 | 1.719 | 1.588 | 2.738 | 0.582 | | QTs | 0.582 | 2.738 | 1.588 | 1.719 | 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 60.21% on monotone flops up to 72.58% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower). AKs stays ahead on all five textures. **AKs against QTs by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | AKs wins | Ties | QTs wins | AKs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.138 | 60.414 | 0.108 | 39.478 | 60.468 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.771 | 72.095 | 0.960 | 26.945 | 72.575 | | Two-tone | 46.727 | 62.371 | 0.280 | 37.349 | 62.511 | | Monotone | 5.273 | 58.503 | 3.418 | 38.079 | 60.212 | | Paired | 17.091 | 65.274 | 0.604 | 34.122 | 65.576 | 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 59.47% for QTs. This opponent changes them by -3.83 and -22.69 points. **AKs and QTs 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 | 63.223 | 67.045 | -3.822 | 0.94299 | | AKs, rainbow, ten or higher | 60.468 | 67.045 | -6.577 | 0.90190 | | AKs, rainbow, nine or lower | 72.575 | 67.045 | +5.530 | 1.08248 | | AKs, two-tone | 62.511 | 67.045 | -4.534 | 0.93237 | | AKs, monotone | 60.212 | 67.045 | -6.833 | 0.89808 | | AKs, paired | 65.576 | 67.045 | -1.469 | 0.97809 | | QTs, all flops | 36.777 | 59.468 | -22.691 | 0.61843 | | QTs, rainbow, ten or higher | 39.532 | 59.468 | -19.936 | 0.66476 | | QTs, rainbow, nine or lower | 27.425 | 59.468 | -32.043 | 0.46117 | | QTs, two-tone | 37.489 | 59.468 | -21.979 | 0.63041 | | QTs, monotone | 39.788 | 59.468 | -19.680 | 0.66907 | | QTs, paired | 34.424 | 59.468 | -25.044 | 0.57887 | ## Does a shared suit matter? The suit split reads 65.62% for AKs with a shared suit and 62.42% without one. AKs does better with a shared suit, by 3.20 points. **AKs against QTs by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | AKs wins | Ties | QTs wins | AKs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 4 | 25.00 | 65.323 | 0.593 | 34.084 | 65.620 | | No shared suit | 12 | 75.00 | 62.180 | 0.488 | 37.332 | 62.424 | ## How often this matchup comes up Counting specific cards, AKs against QTs appears in 16 of the 1,624,350 ordered heads-up deals (0.0010%), and in 32 when the seats are swapped too (0.0020%). ## A worked example Say each player puts $100 in before the flop, making a $200 pot. On average AKs takes back $126.44 of it, which is $26.44 more than it put in, and QTs takes back $73.56, $26.44 less than it put in. Over a long run, 1,000 deals split into about 630 for AKs, 365 for QTs and 5 tied. ## The same matchup from the other side Read it from the other side: QTs against AKs is the same matchup with the numbers swapped, so QTs holds 36.78% and AKs holds 63.22%. That address sends you back to this page. ## Keep exploring Try AsKs against QhTh 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 AsKs against QhTh in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=AsKs&p2=QhTh) - [AKs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/aks.md) - [QTs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/qts.md) - [AKs vs A4s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aks-vs-a4s.md) - [AKs vs A3s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aks-vs-a3s.md) - [77 vs QTs](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/77-vs-qts.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 A4s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aks-vs-a4s.md) - [AKs vs A3s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aks-vs-a3s.md) - [77 vs QTs: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/77-vs-qts.md)