--- title: "AQo vs KQo: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqo-vs-kqo.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqo-vs-kqo" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "AQo is a big favorite over KQo before the flop: 74.52% to 25.48% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqo-vs-a7s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqo-vs-a9o.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajo-vs-kqo.md"] --- # AQo vs KQo: preflop equity AQo is a big favorite over KQo before the flop: 74.52% to 25.48% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Over all 1,712,304 boards that can follow this deal, AQo finishes with 74.52% of the pot and KQo with 25.48%. ## AQo against KQo: the numbers **Exact preflop results for AQo against KQo, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AQo | 73.950 | 1.135 | 24.915 | 74.518 | | KQo | 24.915 | 1.135 | 73.950 | 25.482 | Each side holds one of the offsuit hands: AQo and KQo. 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. A lead of 49.04 points is large but not decisive: KQo still takes about 249 of every 1,000 deals. The tie share is 1.14%: on those boards the pot is chopped and neither hand wins outright. AQo ranks number 14 of 169 starting hands, and KQo ranks number 23, by equity against a random hand. **Boards behind the percentages: 184,928,832 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AQo | 136,755,000 | 2,099,000 | 46,075,000 | | KQo | 46,075,000 | 2,099,000 | 136,755,000 | 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. **AQo against KQo 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 | 2.924 | 1.352 | 4.014 | 0.342 | | KQo | 0.342 | 4.014 | 1.352 | 2.924 | The last column is the break-even price: the pot odds a call needs to offer, as a ratio of pot to call. ## Who is ahead on which flops If you know the kind of flop that came, the numbers shift: AQo holds 86.68% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) and 68.76% on monotone flops. 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 KQo by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | AQo wins | Ties | KQo wins | AQo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.275 | 70.081 | 0.773 | 29.146 | 70.467 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.771 | 86.003 | 1.356 | 12.641 | 86.681 | | Two-tone | 46.477 | 73.426 | 0.885 | 25.689 | 73.868 | | Monotone | 5.144 | 67.769 | 1.985 | 30.246 | 68.762 | | Paired | 17.333 | 76.984 | 1.939 | 21.077 | 77.954 | 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 Against one random hand instead, AQo holds 64.43% and KQo holds 61.46%. Facing each other changes that by +10.09 points for AQo and -35.98 points for KQo. **AQo and KQo 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 | 74.518 | 64.432 | +10.086 | 1.15654 | | AQo, rainbow, ten or higher | 70.467 | 64.432 | +6.035 | 1.09366 | | AQo, rainbow, nine or lower | 86.681 | 64.432 | +22.249 | 1.34531 | | AQo, two-tone | 73.868 | 64.432 | +9.436 | 1.14645 | | AQo, monotone | 68.762 | 64.432 | +4.330 | 1.06720 | | AQo, paired | 77.954 | 64.432 | +13.522 | 1.20986 | | KQo, all flops | 25.482 | 61.456 | -35.974 | 0.41464 | | KQo, rainbow, ten or higher | 29.533 | 61.456 | -31.923 | 0.48056 | | KQo, rainbow, nine or lower | 13.319 | 61.456 | -48.137 | 0.21672 | | KQo, two-tone | 26.132 | 61.456 | -35.324 | 0.42521 | | KQo, monotone | 31.238 | 61.456 | -30.218 | 0.50830 | | KQo, paired | 22.046 | 61.456 | -39.410 | 0.35873 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Looking only at deals where the hands share a suit, AQo has 74.62%; looking only at deals where they do not, 74.16%. AQo does better with a shared suit, by 0.46 points. **AQo against KQo by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | AQo wins | Ties | KQo wins | AQo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 84 | 77.78 | 74.042 | 1.157 | 24.801 | 74.621 | | No shared suit | 24 | 22.22 | 73.628 | 1.059 | 25.313 | 74.157 | ## How often this matchup comes up AQo against KQo is made up of 108 specific-card matchups in one seat order, 0.0066% of the 1,624,350 ordered deals, and 216 counting both seat orders, 0.0133%. ## A worked example Take a $200 pot built from $100 each. AQo's equity of 74.52% is worth $149.04, a $49.04 edge, and KQo's 25.48% is worth $50.96, which is $49.04 under its stake. Scaled to 1,000 deals, that is roughly 740 wins for AQo, 249 for KQo and 11 chopped pots. ## The same matchup from the other side One page covers both views. From KQo's side the equity is 25.48%, and from AQo's side it is 74.52%. ## Keep exploring AsQh against KdQc 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 KdQc in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=AsQh&p2=KdQc) - [AQo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/aqo.md) - [KQo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/kqo.md) - [AQo vs A7s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqo-vs-a7s.md) - [AQo vs A9o](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqo-vs-a9o.md) - [AJo vs KQo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajo-vs-kqo.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed We counted every case. Each suit pattern of the 108 specific AQo against KQo deals meets all 1,712,304 boards, and the better five-card hand wins; a split pot is half a win each. The flop table reads each board under all ten of its three-card flops. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [AQo vs A7s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqo-vs-a7s.md) - [AQo vs A9o: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqo-vs-a9o.md) - [AJo vs KQo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajo-vs-kqo.md)