--- title: "AQo vs KJo: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqo-vs-kjo.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqo-vs-kjo" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "AQo is a big favorite over KJo before the flop: 62.88% to 37.12% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqo-vs-55.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqo-vs-qjs.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajo-vs-kjo.md"] --- # AQo vs KJo: preflop equity AQo is a big favorite over KJo before the flop: 62.88% to 37.12% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Before any board card is dealt, AQo holds 62.88% equity against KJo, which leaves KJo with 37.12%. ## AQo against KJo: the numbers **Exact preflop results for AQo against KJo, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AQo | 62.648 | 0.468 | 36.884 | 62.882 | | KJo | 36.884 | 0.468 | 62.648 | 37.118 | Here offsuit hands face each other, AQo on one side and KJo on the other. With no overlap in ranks, every card that pairs one hand is a card that does not pair the other. AQo is ahead, but KJo is far from dead: it takes 369 of every 1,000 deals outright. Ties are 0.47% of the outcomes here; each tied board gives both hands half the pot. Ranked by equity against a random hand, AQo is number 14 of the 169 starting hands and KJo is number 26. **Boards behind the percentages: 246,571,776 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AQo | 154,472,000 | 1,154,000 | 90,946,000 | | KJo | 90,946,000 | 1,154,000 | 154,472,000 | Exact total: 144 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 KJo 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 | 1.694 | 1.596 | 2.711 | 0.590 | | KJo | 0.590 | 2.711 | 1.596 | 1.694 | 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 Low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) are the best for AQo (76.13%); rainbow flops topped by a ten or better are the worst (57.74%). 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 KJo by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | AQo wins | Ties | KJo wins | AQo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.381 | 57.699 | 0.074 | 42.227 | 57.736 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.771 | 75.509 | 1.241 | 23.250 | 76.129 | | Two-tone | 46.606 | 62.003 | 0.349 | 37.648 | 62.177 | | Monotone | 5.151 | 59.882 | 1.724 | 38.394 | 60.744 | | Paired | 17.091 | 66.163 | 0.600 | 33.237 | 66.463 | 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 How much does the opponent matter? Compared with its random-hand 64.43%, AQo changes by -1.55 points, and KJo, from 60.57%, by -23.45. **AQo and KJo 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 | 62.882 | 64.432 | -1.550 | 0.97594 | | AQo, rainbow, ten or higher | 57.736 | 64.432 | -6.696 | 0.89608 | | AQo, rainbow, nine or lower | 76.129 | 64.432 | +11.697 | 1.18154 | | AQo, two-tone | 62.177 | 64.432 | -2.255 | 0.96500 | | AQo, monotone | 60.744 | 64.432 | -3.688 | 0.94276 | | AQo, paired | 66.463 | 64.432 | +2.031 | 1.03152 | | KJo, all flops | 37.118 | 60.569 | -23.451 | 0.61282 | | KJo, rainbow, ten or higher | 42.264 | 60.569 | -18.305 | 0.69778 | | KJo, rainbow, nine or lower | 23.871 | 60.569 | -36.698 | 0.39411 | | KJo, two-tone | 37.823 | 60.569 | -22.746 | 0.62446 | | KJo, monotone | 39.256 | 60.569 | -21.313 | 0.64812 | | KJo, paired | 33.537 | 60.569 | -27.032 | 0.55370 | ## Does a shared suit matter? The suit split reads 62.95% for AQo with a shared suit and 62.56% without one. AQo does better with a shared suit, by 0.39 points. **AQo against KJo by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | AQo wins | Ties | KJo wins | AQo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 120 | 83.33 | 62.703 | 0.484 | 36.813 | 62.945 | | No shared suit | 24 | 16.67 | 62.368 | 0.388 | 37.244 | 62.562 | ## How often this matchup comes up AQo against KJo is made up of 144 specific-card matchups in one seat order, 0.0089% of the 1,624,350 ordered deals, and 288 counting both seat orders, 0.0177%. ## A worked example Say each player puts $100 in before the flop, making a $200 pot. On average AQo takes back $125.76 of it, which is $25.76 more than it put in, and KJo takes back $74.24, $25.76 less than it put in. Out of 1,000 deals you should see around 626 outright wins for AQo, 369 for KJo, and 5 split pots. ## The same matchup from the other side The mirror image, KJo against AQo, is 37.12% to 62.88%, and its address redirects to this page. ## Keep exploring AsQh against KdJc 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 KdJc in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=AsQh&p2=KdJc) - [AQo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/aqo.md) - [KJo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/kjo.md) - [AQo vs 55](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqo-vs-55.md) - [AQo vs QJs](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqo-vs-qjs.md) - [AJo vs KJo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajo-vs-kjo.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed This is an exact count with no sampling. For the 144 ways to deal one AQo and one KJo without reusing a card, grouped by suit pattern, every one of the 1,712,304 possible boards is dealt and both seven-card hands are compared. A tie counts as half a win in the equity column, and each board is counted once under each of its ten three-card flops. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [AQo vs 55: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqo-vs-55.md) - [AQo vs QJs: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqo-vs-qjs.md) - [AJo vs KJo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajo-vs-kjo.md)