--- title: "AQs vs A6s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-a6s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-a6s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "AQs is a big favorite over A6s before the flop: 70.42% to 29.58% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-kto.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-qts.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajs-vs-a6s.md"] --- # AQs vs A6s: preflop equity AQs is a big favorite over A6s before the flop: 70.42% to 29.58% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Averaged over every possible board, AQs is ahead of A6s by 40.84 points of equity, 70.42% to 29.58%. ## AQs against A6s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for AQs against A6s, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AQs | 67.902 | 5.044 | 27.054 | 70.424 | | A6s | 27.054 | 5.044 | 67.902 | 29.576 | Two suited hands meet here: AQs against A6s. 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 40.84 points is large but not decisive: A6s still takes about 271 of every 1,000 deals. Ties are 5.04% 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 A6s is number 31. **Boards behind the percentages: 20,547,648 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AQs | 13,952,000 | 1,036,000 | 5,559,000 | | A6s | 5,559,000 | 1,036,000 | 13,952,000 | 12 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 A6s 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 | 2.381 | 1.473 | 3.696 | 0.420 | | A6s | 0.420 | 3.696 | 1.473 | 2.381 | The last column is the smallest pot odds, written as a pot-to-call ratio, at which a call breaks even with this equity. ## Who is ahead on which flops Break the boards down by their first three cards and AQs is strongest on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better (77.26%) and weakest on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) (56.95%). 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 A6s by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | AQs wins | Ties | A6s wins | AQs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.867 | 75.618 | 3.278 | 21.104 | 77.257 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.042 | 55.554 | 2.782 | 41.664 | 56.945 | | Two-tone | 46.543 | 68.309 | 2.910 | 28.781 | 69.764 | | Monotone | 5.215 | 61.690 | 4.983 | 33.327 | 64.182 | | Paired | 17.333 | 63.068 | 14.146 | 22.786 | 70.141 | 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 A random hand would give AQs 66.21% and A6s 59.91%. Against each other the change is +4.21 points for AQs and -30.33 for A6s. **AQs and A6s 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 | 70.424 | 66.209 | +4.215 | 1.06366 | | AQs, rainbow, ten or higher | 77.257 | 66.209 | +11.048 | 1.16687 | | AQs, rainbow, nine or lower | 56.945 | 66.209 | -9.264 | 0.86008 | | AQs, two-tone | 69.764 | 66.209 | +3.555 | 1.05369 | | AQs, monotone | 64.182 | 66.209 | -2.027 | 0.96938 | | AQs, paired | 70.141 | 66.209 | +3.932 | 1.05939 | | A6s, all flops | 29.576 | 59.906 | -30.330 | 0.49371 | | A6s, rainbow, ten or higher | 22.743 | 59.906 | -37.163 | 0.37964 | | A6s, rainbow, nine or lower | 43.055 | 59.906 | -16.851 | 0.71871 | | A6s, two-tone | 30.236 | 59.906 | -29.670 | 0.50472 | | A6s, monotone | 35.818 | 59.906 | -24.088 | 0.59790 | | A6s, paired | 29.859 | 59.906 | -30.047 | 0.49843 | ## Does a shared suit matter? These two classes cannot share a suit in any legal deal, so there is only one row to read: AQs holds 70.42% in every deal of this matchup. **AQs against A6s by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | AQs wins | Ties | A6s wins | AQs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 0 | 0.00 | not possible | not possible | not possible | not possible | | No shared suit | 12 | 100.00 | 67.902 | 5.044 | 27.054 | 70.424 | ## How often this matchup comes up Exactly 12 specific deals fit this matchup in one seat order, which is 0.0007% of 1,624,350; both orders together give 24, or 0.0015%. ## A worked example With $100 from each side, the $200 pot is split on average as $140.84 for AQs and $59.16 for A6s; the first side gains $40.84 per all-in and the second gives up $40.84. In 1,000 deals of exactly this matchup, expect about 679 won outright by AQs, about 271 won outright by A6s and about 50 split. ## The same matchup from the other side If you came looking for A6s against AQs, the numbers are the same with the hands swapped: 29.58% and 70.42%. ## Keep exploring Try AsQs against Ah6h 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 Ah6h in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=AsQs&p2=Ah6h) - [AQs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/aqs.md) - [A6s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/a6s.md) - [AQs vs KTo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-kto.md) - [AQs vs QTs](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-qts.md) - [AJs vs A6s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajs-vs-a6s.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 KTo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-kto.md) - [AQs vs QTs: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-qts.md) - [AJs vs A6s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajs-vs-a6s.md)