AQo vs AJo: preflop equity

AQo against AJo: the numbers

Two offsuit hands meet here: AQo against AJo. Sharing a rank is the signature of a dominated hand, since the weaker hand is usually out-kicked when the shared rank shows up.

That is a clear edge, 73.91% to 26.09%, but AJo still wins often enough that one hand proves nothing. About 5.79% of boards chop the pot, which is why equity sits slightly above the win figure for both hands.

Ranked by equity against a random hand, AQo is number 14 of the 169 starting hands and AJo is number 15.

The board total is exact, 108 deals at 1,712,304 boards each. Won, tied and lost counts are rounded to the nearest thousand from the five-decimal percentages.

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

AQo prefers low rainbow flops (nine high or lower), where it holds 84.51%, and likes monotone flops least, where it holds 68.80%. AQo stays ahead on all five textures, but the swing between them is large, so how the flop looks matters a great deal.

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

Start from the random-hand figures, 64.43% for AQo and 63.56% for AJo. This opponent changes them by +9.48 and -37.47 points.

Does a shared suit matter?

Two kinds of deal exist here. In 84 of them the hands share a suit and AQo holds 74.01%. In 24 they do not, and it holds 73.53%. AQo does better with a shared suit, by 0.48 points.

How often this matchup comes up

You will meet this exact matchup 0.0133% of the time in a random heads-up deal: 216 of 1,624,350, counting either seat order.

A worked example

Worked example: both players commit $100, so $200 sits in the middle. Over every board, AQo's average share is $147.82 (a gain of $47.82) and AJo's is $52.18 (a loss of $47.82).

Run 1,000 deals and the tally comes out near 710 for AQo, 232 for AJo and 58 ties.

The same matchup from the other side

The reversed view, AJo against AQo, shows 26.09% for AJo and 73.91% for AQo. It is the same count, so it redirects here.

Keep exploring

Try AsQh against AdJc 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.

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