--- title: "AQo vs 86s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqo-vs-86s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqo-vs-86s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "Who is ahead, AQo or 86s? AQo leads 59.65% to 40.35% before the flop, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqo-vs-76s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqo-vs-75s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajo-vs-86s.md"] --- # AQo vs 86s: preflop equity Who is ahead, AQo or 86s? AQo leads 59.65% to 40.35% before the flop, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Averaged over every possible board, AQo is ahead of 86s by 19.30 points of equity, 59.65% to 40.35%. ## AQo against 86s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for AQo against 86s, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AQo | 59.441 | 0.420 | 40.139 | 59.651 | | 86s | 40.139 | 0.420 | 59.441 | 40.349 | AQo is an offsuit hand and 86s is a suited hand. Neither hand shares a rank with the other, so this is a contest of high cards, connection and suits. AQo is ahead, but 86s is far from dead: it takes 401 of every 1,000 deals outright. 0.42% of boards are ties, so the equity of each hand is its win rate plus half of that. For context, AQo sits at number 14 of 169 starting hands and 86s at number 110 when each is run against a random hand. **Boards behind the percentages: 82,190,592 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AQo | 48,855,000 | 345,000 | 32,990,000 | | 86s | 32,990,000 | 345,000 | 48,855,000 | 48 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. **AQo against 86s 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 | 1.478 | 1.682 | 2.491 | 0.676 | | 86s | 0.676 | 2.491 | 1.682 | 1.478 | 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 Break the boards down by their first three cards and AQo is strongest on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better (67.68%) and weakest on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) (33.68%). The lead reverses on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower): there 86s is the favorite even though AQo is ahead overall. **AQo against 86s by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | AQo wins | Ties | 86s wins | AQo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 24.717 | 67.618 | 0.129 | 32.253 | 67.682 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 6.313 | 33.318 | 0.717 | 65.965 | 33.677 | | Two-tone | 46.667 | 57.876 | 0.237 | 41.887 | 57.995 | | Monotone | 5.212 | 56.817 | 2.360 | 40.823 | 57.997 | | Paired | 17.091 | 62.339 | 0.641 | 37.020 | 62.660 | 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 The table below sets each hand against its own random-hand baseline: a change of -4.78 points for AQo, from 64.43%, and -5.89 for 86s, from 46.24%. **AQo and 86s 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 | 59.651 | 64.432 | -4.781 | 0.92580 | | AQo, rainbow, ten or higher | 67.682 | 64.432 | +3.250 | 1.05044 | | AQo, rainbow, nine or lower | 33.677 | 64.432 | -30.755 | 0.52268 | | AQo, two-tone | 57.995 | 64.432 | -6.437 | 0.90010 | | AQo, monotone | 57.997 | 64.432 | -6.435 | 0.90013 | | AQo, paired | 62.660 | 64.432 | -1.772 | 0.97250 | | 86s, all flops | 40.349 | 46.243 | -5.894 | 0.87254 | | 86s, rainbow, ten or higher | 32.318 | 46.243 | -13.925 | 0.69887 | | 86s, rainbow, nine or lower | 66.323 | 46.243 | +20.080 | 1.43423 | | 86s, two-tone | 42.005 | 46.243 | -4.238 | 0.90835 | | 86s, monotone | 42.003 | 46.243 | -4.240 | 0.90831 | | 86s, paired | 37.340 | 46.243 | -8.903 | 0.80747 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Split by suits, the deals give AQo 60.35% when the hands overlap in a suit and 58.95% when they do not. AQo does better with a shared suit, by 1.40 points. **AQo against 86s by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | AQo wins | Ties | 86s wins | AQo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 24 | 50.00 | 60.123 | 0.461 | 39.416 | 60.354 | | No shared suit | 24 | 50.00 | 58.758 | 0.380 | 40.862 | 58.948 | ## How often this matchup comes up AQo against 86s is made up of 48 specific-card matchups in one seat order, 0.0030% of the 1,624,350 ordered deals, and 96 counting both seat orders, 0.0059%. ## A worked example Try it with money: two players each put in $100 and the whole board runs out every possible way. AQo averages $119.30 from the $200, up $19.30; 86s averages $80.70, down $19.30. Per 1,000 deals: AQo wins about 595, 86s wins about 401, and about 4 end in a split pot. ## The same matchup from the other side Read it from the other side: 86s against AQo is the same matchup with the numbers swapped, so 86s holds 40.35% and AQo holds 59.65%. That address sends you back to this page. ## Keep exploring Try AsQh against 8d6d 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 AsQh against 8d6d in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=AsQh&p2=8d6d) - [AQo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/aqo.md) - [86s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/86s.md) - [AQo vs 76s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqo-vs-76s.md) - [AQo vs 75s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqo-vs-75s.md) - [AJo vs 86s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajo-vs-86s.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 48 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 - [AQo vs 76s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqo-vs-76s.md) - [AQo vs 75s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqo-vs-75s.md) - [AJo vs 86s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajo-vs-86s.md)