--- title: "AQs vs AJo: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-ajo.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-ajo" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "AQs is a big favorite over AJo before the flop: 74.96% to 25.04% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-kqs.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-66.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajs-vs-ajo.md"] --- # AQs vs AJo: preflop equity AQs is a big favorite over AJo before the flop: 74.96% to 25.04% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. In equity, AQs against AJo stands at 74.96% to 25.04%, a gap of 49.92 points. ## AQs against AJo: the numbers **Exact preflop results for AQs against AJo, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AQs | 72.193 | 5.530 | 22.277 | 74.958 | | AJo | 22.277 | 5.530 | 72.193 | 25.042 | The first hand is a suited hand; the second is an offsuit hand. 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 49.92 points is large but not decisive: AJo still takes about 223 of every 1,000 deals. A split pot comes up on 5.53% of boards, so the wins and the equity differ by half of that. In the ranking of all 169 starting hands, AQs is number 10 and AJo is number 15. **Boards behind the percentages: 61,642,944 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AQs | 44,502,000 | 3,409,000 | 13,732,000 | | AJo | 13,732,000 | 3,409,000 | 44,502,000 | 36 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 AJo 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 | 2.993 | 1.385 | 4.489 | 0.334 | | AJo | 0.334 | 4.489 | 1.385 | 2.993 | 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 Across the five flop textures AQs' equity moves by 17.50 points, from 67.59% on monotone flops to 85.09% 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 AJo by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | AQs wins | Ties | AJo wins | AQs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.177 | 71.090 | 3.084 | 25.826 | 72.632 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.771 | 82.429 | 5.317 | 12.254 | 85.087 | | Two-tone | 46.527 | 74.015 | 3.455 | 22.530 | 75.743 | | Monotone | 5.192 | 65.248 | 4.677 | 30.075 | 67.587 | | Paired | 17.333 | 66.268 | 14.720 | 19.012 | 73.628 | A rainbow flop shows three suits, a two-tone flop repeats one suit, a monotone flop is a single suit, and a paired flop repeats a rank. ## Compared with a random hand Each hand has a baseline against a random hand: 66.21% for AQs, 63.56% for AJo. Here the change is +8.75 and -38.52 points. **AQs and AJo 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 | 74.958 | 66.209 | +8.749 | 1.13214 | | AQs, rainbow, ten or higher | 72.632 | 66.209 | +6.423 | 1.09701 | | AQs, rainbow, nine or lower | 85.087 | 66.209 | +18.878 | 1.28513 | | AQs, two-tone | 75.743 | 66.209 | +9.534 | 1.14400 | | AQs, monotone | 67.587 | 66.209 | +1.378 | 1.02081 | | AQs, paired | 73.628 | 66.209 | +7.419 | 1.11205 | | AJo, all flops | 25.042 | 63.563 | -38.521 | 0.39397 | | AJo, rainbow, ten or higher | 27.368 | 63.563 | -36.195 | 0.43056 | | AJo, rainbow, nine or lower | 14.913 | 63.563 | -48.650 | 0.23462 | | AJo, two-tone | 24.257 | 63.563 | -39.306 | 0.38162 | | AJo, monotone | 32.413 | 63.563 | -31.150 | 0.50994 | | AJo, paired | 26.372 | 63.563 | -37.191 | 0.41490 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Looking only at deals where the hands share a suit, AQs has 74.74%; looking only at deals where they do not, 75.07%. AQs does better with no shared suit, by 0.33 points. **AQs against AJo by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | AQs wins | Ties | AJo wins | AQs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 12 | 33.33 | 71.936 | 5.609 | 22.455 | 74.741 | | No shared suit | 24 | 66.67 | 72.321 | 5.490 | 22.189 | 75.066 | ## How often this matchup comes up This page stands for 36 specific-card matchups (0.0022% of 1,624,350 ordered deals), or 72 once you count the seats both ways (0.0044%). ## A worked example Put $100 each into a $200 pot and deal every board once: AQs averages $149.92 back, ahead of its $100 by $49.92, while AJo averages $50.08, short of its $100 by $49.92. Out of 1,000 deals you should see around 722 outright wins for AQs, 223 for AJo, and 55 split pots. ## The same matchup from the other side Swap the hands and you get AJo with 25.04% against AQs with 74.96%. We keep one page per matchup, with the better-ranked hand first. ## Keep exploring Try AsQs against AhJd 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 AhJd in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=AsQs&p2=AhJd) - [AQs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/aqs.md) - [AJo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/ajo.md) - [AQs vs KQs](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-kqs.md) - [AQs vs 66](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-66.md) - [AJs vs AJo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajs-vs-ajo.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed Each figure is a complete count over boards. Take the 36 specific deals, group them by suit pattern, deal all 1,712,304 boards against each, and compare the two seven-card hands. Equity counts a tie as half a win; the flop rows use every one of a board's ten flops. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [AQs vs KQs: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-kqs.md) - [AQs vs 66: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-66.md) - [AJs vs AJo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajs-vs-ajo.md)