--- title: "AQs vs 65s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-65s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-65s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "AQs is a big favorite over 65s before the flop: 61.18% to 38.82% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-54s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-64s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajs-vs-65s.md"] --- # AQs vs 65s: preflop equity AQs is a big favorite over 65s before the flop: 61.18% to 38.82% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Before any board card is dealt, AQs holds 61.18% equity against 65s, which leaves 65s with 38.82%. ## AQs against 65s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for AQs against 65s, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AQs | 60.923 | 0.507 | 38.570 | 61.176 | | 65s | 38.570 | 0.507 | 60.923 | 38.824 | Both hands are suited hands: AQs and 65s. With no overlap in ranks, every card that pairs one hand is a card that does not pair the other. That is a modest edge, the kind that shows up over many hands and is easy to miss in one. The tie share is 0.51%: on those boards the pot is chopped and neither hand wins outright. Ranked by equity against a random hand, AQs is number 10 of the 169 starting hands and 65s is number 128. **Boards behind the percentages: 27,396,864 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AQs | 16,691,000 | 139,000 | 10,567,000 | | 65s | 10,567,000 | 139,000 | 16,691,000 | 16 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. **AQs against 65s read as odds** | Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AQs | 1.576 | 1.641 | 2.593 | 0.635 | | 65s | 0.635 | 2.593 | 1.641 | 1.576 | 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 Rainbow flops topped by a ten or better are the best for AQs (68.48%); low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) are the worst (32.12%). Watch for low rainbow flops (nine high or lower): on those flops 65s holds the better equity. **AQs against 65s by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | AQs wins | Ties | 65s wins | AQs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 24.595 | 68.401 | 0.149 | 31.450 | 68.476 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 6.314 | 31.706 | 0.828 | 67.466 | 32.120 | | Two-tone | 46.727 | 60.255 | 0.264 | 39.481 | 60.387 | | Monotone | 5.273 | 57.019 | 3.466 | 39.515 | 58.752 | | Paired | 17.091 | 63.984 | 0.653 | 35.363 | 64.311 | 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 Against one random hand instead, AQs holds 66.21% and 65s holds 43.13%. Facing each other changes that by -5.03 points for AQs and -4.31 points for 65s. **AQs and 65s 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AQs, all flops | 61.176 | 66.209 | -5.033 | 0.92398 | | AQs, rainbow, ten or higher | 68.476 | 66.209 | +2.267 | 1.03424 | | AQs, rainbow, nine or lower | 32.120 | 66.209 | -34.089 | 0.48513 | | AQs, two-tone | 60.387 | 66.209 | -5.822 | 0.91207 | | AQs, monotone | 58.752 | 66.209 | -7.457 | 0.88737 | | AQs, paired | 64.311 | 66.209 | -1.898 | 0.97133 | | 65s, all flops | 38.824 | 43.133 | -4.309 | 0.90010 | | 65s, rainbow, ten or higher | 31.524 | 43.133 | -11.609 | 0.73086 | | 65s, rainbow, nine or lower | 67.880 | 43.133 | +24.747 | 1.57374 | | 65s, two-tone | 39.613 | 43.133 | -3.520 | 0.91839 | | 65s, monotone | 41.248 | 43.133 | -1.885 | 0.95630 | | 65s, paired | 35.689 | 43.133 | -7.444 | 0.82742 | ## Does a shared suit matter? When the hands share a suit, AQs holds 63.27%; when they do not, it holds 60.48%. AQs does better with a shared suit, by 2.79 points. **AQs against 65s by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | AQs wins | Ties | 65s wins | AQs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 4 | 25.00 | 62.979 | 0.587 | 36.434 | 63.273 | | No shared suit | 12 | 75.00 | 60.237 | 0.480 | 39.283 | 60.477 | ## How often this matchup comes up Exactly 16 specific deals fit this matchup in one seat order, which is 0.0010% of 1,624,350; both orders together give 32, or 0.0020%. ## A worked example A $100 all-in from each player makes a $200 pot, and the exact equity says AQs gets $122.36 of it on average and 65s gets $77.64. Over a long run, 1,000 deals split into about 609 for AQs, 386 for 65s and 5 tied. ## The same matchup from the other side 65s against AQs adds nothing new: it is 38.82% for 65s and 61.18% for AQs, the same figures reversed. ## Keep exploring AsQs against 6h5h 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 AsQs against 6h5h in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=AsQs&p2=6h5h) - [AQs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/aqs.md) - [65s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/65s.md) - [AQs vs 54s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-54s.md) - [AQs vs 64s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-64s.md) - [AJs vs 65s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajs-vs-65s.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 16 specific deals of AQs against 65s, 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 - [AQs vs 54s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-54s.md) - [AQs vs 64s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-64s.md) - [AJs vs 65s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajs-vs-65s.md)