--- title: "AQo vs A6s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqo-vs-a6s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqo-vs-a6s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "AQo is a big favorite over A6s before the flop: 69.14% to 30.86% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqo-vs-kto.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqo-vs-qts.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajo-vs-a6s.md"] --- # AQo vs A6s: preflop equity AQo is a big favorite over A6s before the flop: 69.14% to 30.86% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Counting every board, the equity split is 69.14% for AQo and 30.86% for A6s, so AQo leads by 38.28 points. ## AQo against A6s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for AQo against A6s, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AQo | 66.511 | 5.265 | 28.224 | 69.143 | | A6s | 28.224 | 5.265 | 66.511 | 30.857 | The matchup pits an offsuit hand against a suited hand. The two hands share a rank, and the one with the better other card dominates: it wins most kicker battles when that shared rank hits. AQo is well ahead, and A6s needs a specific kind of board to catch up. A split pot comes up on 5.27% of boards, so the wins and the equity differ by half of that. By strength against a random hand, AQo holds place 14 of 169 and A6s holds place 31. **Boards behind the percentages: 61,642,944 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AQo | 40,999,000 | 3,246,000 | 17,398,000 | | A6s | 17,398,000 | 3,246,000 | 40,999,000 | The board total is exact, 36 deals at 1,712,304 boards each. Won, tied and lost counts are rounded to the nearest thousand from the five-decimal percentages. **AQo against A6s 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 | 2.241 | 1.504 | 3.543 | 0.446 | | A6s | 0.446 | 3.543 | 1.504 | 2.241 | 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 By flop texture, AQo's equity runs from 55.33% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) up to 76.66% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better. AQo stays ahead on all five textures, but the swing between them is large, so how the flop looks matters a great deal. **AQo against A6s by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | AQo wins | Ties | A6s wins | AQo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.905 | 74.975 | 3.360 | 21.665 | 76.655 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.042 | 53.884 | 2.893 | 43.223 | 55.331 | | Two-tone | 46.527 | 66.484 | 3.101 | 30.415 | 68.035 | | Monotone | 5.192 | 61.776 | 4.449 | 33.775 | 64.000 | | Paired | 17.334 | 61.457 | 14.909 | 23.634 | 68.911 | 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 Relative to a random opponent, AQo changes by +4.71 points (baseline 64.43%) and A6s by -29.05 points (baseline 59.91%). **AQo and A6s 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 | 69.143 | 64.432 | +4.711 | 1.07312 | | AQo, rainbow, ten or higher | 76.655 | 64.432 | +12.223 | 1.18970 | | AQo, rainbow, nine or lower | 55.331 | 64.432 | -9.101 | 0.85875 | | AQo, two-tone | 68.035 | 64.432 | +3.603 | 1.05592 | | AQo, monotone | 64.000 | 64.432 | -0.432 | 0.99330 | | AQo, paired | 68.911 | 64.432 | +4.479 | 1.06952 | | A6s, all flops | 30.857 | 59.906 | -29.049 | 0.51509 | | A6s, rainbow, ten or higher | 23.345 | 59.906 | -36.561 | 0.38969 | | A6s, rainbow, nine or lower | 44.669 | 59.906 | -15.237 | 0.74565 | | A6s, two-tone | 31.965 | 59.906 | -27.941 | 0.53359 | | A6s, monotone | 36.000 | 59.906 | -23.906 | 0.60094 | | A6s, paired | 31.089 | 59.906 | -28.817 | 0.51896 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Split by suits, the deals give AQo 69.98% when the hands overlap in a suit and 68.73% when they do not. AQo does better with a shared suit, by 1.25 points. **AQo against A6s by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | AQo wins | Ties | A6s wins | AQo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 12 | 33.33 | 67.299 | 5.351 | 27.350 | 69.975 | | No shared suit | 24 | 66.67 | 66.116 | 5.222 | 28.662 | 68.727 | ## How often this matchup comes up Counting specific cards, AQo against A6s appears in 36 of the 1,624,350 ordered heads-up deals (0.0022%), and in 72 when the seats are swapped too (0.0044%). ## A worked example Put $100 each into a $200 pot and deal every board once: AQo averages $138.28 back, ahead of its $100 by $38.28, while A6s averages $61.72, short of its $100 by $38.28. Out of 1,000 deals you should see around 665 outright wins for AQo, 282 for A6s, and 53 split pots. ## The same matchup from the other side Swap the hands and you get A6s with 30.86% against AQo with 69.14%. We keep one page per matchup, with the better-ranked hand first. ## Keep exploring Open the calculator with AsQh against Ad6d 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 AsQh against Ad6d in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=AsQh&p2=Ad6d) - [AQo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/aqo.md) - [A6s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/a6s.md) - [AQo vs KTo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqo-vs-kto.md) - [AQo vs QTs](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqo-vs-qts.md) - [AJo vs A6s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajo-vs-a6s.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed All 1,712,304 five-card boards are dealt for every suit pattern among the 36 specific deals of AQo against A6s, and both hands are scored on each. That is a full count, so the percentages are exact. Ties are half a win each, and each board appears once per flop it contains. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [AQo vs KTo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqo-vs-kto.md) - [AQo vs QTs: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqo-vs-qts.md) - [AJo vs A6s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajo-vs-a6s.md)