--- title: "AQo vs 22: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqo-vs-22.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqo-vs-22" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "AQo vs 22 is close to a coin flip before the flop: 47.70% to 52.30% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqo-vs-97s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqo-vs-87s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajo-vs-22.md"] --- # AQo vs 22: preflop equity AQo vs 22 is close to a coin flip before the flop: 47.70% to 52.30% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Counting every board, the equity split is 52.30% for 22 and 47.70% for AQo, so 22 leads by 4.60 points. ## AQo against 22: the numbers **Exact preflop results for AQo against 22, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AQo | 47.400 | 0.603 | 51.997 | 47.702 | | 22 | 51.997 | 0.603 | 47.400 | 52.298 | Here an offsuit hand (AQo) meets a pocket pair (22). This is a pair against two overcards, a matchup that stays close because the other hand only needs one of its ranks to appear. With only 4.60 points between them, the board decides this matchup far more than the cards in hand. Ties are part of the picture: 0.60% of boards end in a split pot, and each side counts that as half a win. Ranked by equity against a random hand, AQo is number 14 of the 169 starting hands and 22 is number 87. **Boards behind the percentages: 123,285,888 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AQo | 58,438,000 | 743,000 | 64,105,000 | | 22 | 64,105,000 | 743,000 | 58,438,000 | Exact total: 72 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. **AQo 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AQo | 0.912 | 2.110 | 1.923 | 1.096 | | 22 | 1.096 | 1.923 | 2.110 | 0.912 | 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 Break the boards down by their first three cards and 22 is strongest on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) (78.47%) and weakest on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better (46.49%). On rainbow flops topped by a ten or better and monotone flops the numbers flip and AQo is the one ahead. **AQo against 22 by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | AQo wins | Ties | 22 wins | AQo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 24.717 | 53.413 | 0.195 | 46.392 | 53.511 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 6.314 | 20.808 | 1.439 | 77.753 | 21.527 | | Two-tone | 46.485 | 47.119 | 0.428 | 52.453 | 47.333 | | Monotone | 5.151 | 48.980 | 2.657 | 48.363 | 50.309 | | Paired | 17.333 | 48.796 | 0.742 | 50.462 | 49.167 | 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 -16.73 points for AQo, from 64.43%, and +1.97 for 22, from 50.33%. **AQo 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AQo, all flops | 47.702 | 64.432 | -16.730 | 0.74035 | | AQo, rainbow, ten or higher | 53.511 | 64.432 | -10.921 | 0.83050 | | AQo, rainbow, nine or lower | 21.527 | 64.432 | -42.905 | 0.33410 | | AQo, two-tone | 47.333 | 64.432 | -17.099 | 0.73462 | | AQo, monotone | 50.309 | 64.432 | -14.123 | 0.78081 | | AQo, paired | 49.167 | 64.432 | -15.265 | 0.76308 | | 22, all flops | 52.298 | 50.334 | +1.964 | 1.03902 | | 22, rainbow, ten or higher | 46.489 | 50.334 | -3.845 | 0.92361 | | 22, rainbow, nine or lower | 78.473 | 50.334 | +28.139 | 1.55905 | | 22, two-tone | 52.667 | 50.334 | +2.333 | 1.04635 | | 22, monotone | 49.691 | 50.334 | -0.643 | 0.98723 | | 22, paired | 50.833 | 50.334 | +0.499 | 1.00991 | ## Does a shared suit matter? The suit split reads 52.22% for 22 with a shared suit and 52.69% without one. 22 does better with no shared suit, by 0.47 points. **AQo against 22 by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | AQo wins | Ties | 22 wins | AQo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 60 | 83.33 | 47.476 | 0.610 | 51.914 | 47.781 | | No shared suit | 12 | 16.67 | 47.022 | 0.567 | 52.411 | 47.306 | ## How often this matchup comes up You will meet this exact matchup 0.0089% of the time in a random heads-up deal: 144 of 1,624,350, counting either seat order. ## A worked example Take a $200 pot built from $100 each. 22's equity of 52.30% is worth $104.60, a $4.60 edge, and AQo's 47.70% is worth $95.40, which is $4.60 under its stake. A thousand deals look like this: 22 takes 520, AQo takes 474, 6 are ties. ## The same matchup from the other side The mirror image, 22 against AQo, is 52.30% to 47.70%, and its address redirects to this page. ## Keep exploring AsQh against 2d2c 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 AsQh against 2d2c in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=AsQh&p2=2d2c) - [AQo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/aqo.md) - [22 combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/22.md) - [AQo vs 97s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqo-vs-97s.md) - [AQo vs 87s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqo-vs-87s.md) - [AJo vs 22](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajo-vs-22.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed Nothing here is simulated. The 72 deals of AQo against 22 fall into a few suit patterns, each dealt against all 1,712,304 boards, with both best five-card hands compared on every board. Ties give each hand half a win, and the flop rows count a board under each of its ten flops. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [AQo vs 97s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqo-vs-97s.md) - [AQo vs 87s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqo-vs-87s.md) - [AJo vs 22: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajo-vs-22.md)