--- title: "AQs vs A5s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-a5s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-a5s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "AQs is a big favorite over A5s before the flop: 69.31% to 30.69% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-a6s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-kto.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajs-vs-a5s.md"] --- # AQs vs A5s: preflop equity AQs is a big favorite over A5s before the flop: 69.31% to 30.69% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. If AQs and A5s get all the chips in before the flop, AQs owns 69.31% of the pot in the long run and A5s owns 30.69%. ## AQs against A5s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for AQs against A5s, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AQs | 66.607 | 5.403 | 27.990 | 69.308 | | A5s | 27.990 | 5.403 | 66.607 | 30.692 | Each side holds one of the suited hands: AQs and A5s. Because the hands share one rank, the one with the higher kicker is ahead when that rank pairs and the other hand is mostly drawing. A lead of 38.62 points is large but not decisive: A5s still takes about 280 of every 1,000 deals. Ties are 5.40% of the outcomes here; each tied board gives both hands half the pot. Ranked by equity against a random hand, AQs is number 10 of the 169 starting hands and A5s is number 30. **Boards behind the percentages: 20,547,648 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AQs | 13,686,000 | 1,110,000 | 5,751,000 | | A5s | 5,751,000 | 1,110,000 | 13,686,000 | Exact total: 12 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. **AQs against A5s 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 | 2.258 | 1.501 | 3.573 | 0.443 | | A5s | 0.443 | 3.573 | 1.501 | 2.258 | The final column gives the least the pot must offer for each unit called for a call to break even at this equity. ## Who is ahead on which flops If you know the kind of flop that came, the numbers shift: AQs holds 76.29% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better and 54.20% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower). AQs stays ahead on all five textures, but the swing between them is large, so how the flop looks matters a great deal. **AQs against A5s by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | AQs wins | Ties | A5s wins | AQs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.867 | 74.550 | 3.476 | 21.974 | 76.288 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.042 | 52.175 | 4.054 | 43.771 | 54.202 | | Two-tone | 46.543 | 66.956 | 3.296 | 29.748 | 68.604 | | Monotone | 5.215 | 60.798 | 5.264 | 33.938 | 63.430 | | Paired | 17.333 | 62.342 | 14.304 | 23.354 | 69.494 | 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 The table below sets each hand against its own random-hand baseline: a change of +3.10 points for AQs, from 66.21%, and -29.23 for A5s, from 59.92%. **AQs and A5s 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 | 69.308 | 66.209 | +3.099 | 1.04681 | | AQs, rainbow, ten or higher | 76.288 | 66.209 | +10.079 | 1.15223 | | AQs, rainbow, nine or lower | 54.202 | 66.209 | -12.007 | 0.81865 | | AQs, two-tone | 68.604 | 66.209 | +2.395 | 1.03617 | | AQs, monotone | 63.430 | 66.209 | -2.779 | 0.95803 | | AQs, paired | 69.494 | 66.209 | +3.285 | 1.04962 | | A5s, all flops | 30.692 | 59.923 | -29.231 | 0.51219 | | A5s, rainbow, ten or higher | 23.712 | 59.923 | -36.211 | 0.39571 | | A5s, rainbow, nine or lower | 45.798 | 59.923 | -14.125 | 0.76428 | | A5s, two-tone | 31.396 | 59.923 | -28.527 | 0.52394 | | A5s, monotone | 36.570 | 59.923 | -23.353 | 0.61028 | | A5s, paired | 30.506 | 59.923 | -29.417 | 0.50909 | ## Does a shared suit matter? The hands cannot hold a suit in common here, which leaves a single case and a single number: 69.31% for AQs. **AQs against A5s by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | AQs wins | Ties | A5s wins | AQs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 0 | 0.00 | not possible | not possible | not possible | not possible | | No shared suit | 12 | 100.00 | 66.607 | 5.403 | 27.990 | 69.308 | ## How often this matchup comes up How often does it happen? 12 of the 1,624,350 ordered deals (0.0007%) are AQs against A5s, and 24 (0.0015%) if either hand may sit in either seat. ## A worked example To see what the equity is worth, imagine $100 each in a $200 pot. AQs is worth $138.62 on average (+$38.62); A5s is worth $61.38 (-$38.62). In 1,000 deals of exactly this matchup, expect about 666 won outright by AQs, about 280 won outright by A5s and about 54 split. ## The same matchup from the other side If you came looking for A5s against AQs, the numbers are the same with the hands swapped: 30.69% and 69.31%. ## Keep exploring Try AsQs against Ah5h 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. - [Open AsQs against Ah5h in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=AsQs&p2=Ah5h) - [AQs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/aqs.md) - [A5s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/a5s.md) - [AQs vs A6s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-a6s.md) - [AQs vs KTo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-kto.md) - [AJs vs A5s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajs-vs-a5s.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed The page is built from a full enumeration: 1,712,304 boards, every suit pattern of the 12 specific deals, both seven-card hands evaluated. A tie is worth half a win to each hand, and a board is tallied under each of its ten possible flops for the texture rows. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [AQs vs A6s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-a6s.md) - [AQs vs KTo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-kto.md) - [AJs vs A5s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajs-vs-a5s.md)