--- title: "AQs vs AKo: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-ako.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-ako" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "AKo is a big favorite over AQs before the flop: 70.12% to 29.88% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-ats.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-aqo.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajs-vs-ako.md"] --- # AQs vs AKo: preflop equity AKo is a big favorite over AQs before the flop: 70.12% to 29.88% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Averaged over every possible board, AKo is ahead of AQs by 40.24 points of equity, 70.12% to 29.88%. ## AQs against AKo: the numbers **Exact preflop results for AQs against AKo, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AQs | 27.655 | 4.444 | 67.901 | 29.877 | | AKo | 67.901 | 4.444 | 27.655 | 70.123 | AQs, a suited hand, plays AKo, an offsuit hand. 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 40.24 points is large but not decisive: AQs still takes about 277 of every 1,000 deals. Of every 100 boards, about 4.44 are split pots, and the equity figures already include them. In the ranking of all 169 starting hands, AQs is number 10 and AKo is number 12. **Boards behind the percentages: 61,642,944 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AQs | 17,047,000 | 2,739,000 | 41,856,000 | | AKo | 41,856,000 | 2,739,000 | 17,047,000 | The total is exact: 36 specific deals times 1,712,304 boards. The three counts are approximate, worked out from the percentages to five decimals and rounded to the nearest thousand. **AQs against AKo 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 | 0.426 | 3.616 | 1.473 | 2.347 | | AKo | 2.347 | 1.473 | 3.616 | 0.426 | 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: AKo holds 81.91% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) and 64.65% on monotone flops. AKo stays ahead on all five textures, but the swing between them is large, so how the flop looks matters a great deal. **AQs against AKo by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | AQs wins | Ties | AKo wins | AQs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.177 | 29.100 | 1.975 | 68.925 | 30.087 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.771 | 15.381 | 5.427 | 79.192 | 18.095 | | Two-tone | 46.527 | 29.608 | 2.671 | 67.721 | 30.944 | | Monotone | 5.192 | 33.353 | 3.986 | 62.661 | 35.346 | | Paired | 17.333 | 24.275 | 12.204 | 63.521 | 30.377 | 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 Start from the random-hand figures, 66.21% for AQs and 65.32% for AKo. This opponent changes them by -36.33 and +4.80 points. **AQs and AKo 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 | 29.877 | 66.209 | -36.332 | 0.45125 | | AQs, rainbow, ten or higher | 30.087 | 66.209 | -36.122 | 0.45442 | | AQs, rainbow, nine or lower | 18.095 | 66.209 | -48.114 | 0.27330 | | AQs, two-tone | 30.944 | 66.209 | -35.265 | 0.46737 | | AQs, monotone | 35.346 | 66.209 | -30.863 | 0.53385 | | AQs, paired | 30.377 | 66.209 | -35.832 | 0.45880 | | AKo, all flops | 70.123 | 65.320 | +4.803 | 1.07353 | | AKo, rainbow, ten or higher | 69.913 | 65.320 | +4.593 | 1.07032 | | AKo, rainbow, nine or lower | 81.905 | 65.320 | +16.585 | 1.25390 | | AKo, two-tone | 69.056 | 65.320 | +3.736 | 1.05720 | | AKo, monotone | 64.654 | 65.320 | -0.666 | 0.98980 | | AKo, paired | 69.623 | 65.320 | +4.303 | 1.06588 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Two kinds of deal exist here. In 12 of them the hands share a suit and AKo holds 70.90%. In 24 they do not, and it holds 69.73%. AKo does better with a shared suit, by 1.17 points. **AQs against AKo by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | AQs wins | Ties | AKo wins | AQs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 12 | 33.33 | 26.841 | 4.514 | 68.645 | 29.098 | | No shared suit | 24 | 66.67 | 28.062 | 4.409 | 67.529 | 30.266 | ## How often this matchup comes up AQs against AKo is made up of 36 specific-card matchups in one seat order, 0.0022% of the 1,624,350 ordered deals, and 72 counting both seat orders, 0.0044%. ## A worked example Put $100 each into a $200 pot and deal every board once: AKo averages $140.24 back, ahead of its $100 by $40.24, while AQs averages $59.76, short of its $100 by $40.24. Over a long run, 1,000 deals split into about 679 for AKo, 277 for AQs and 44 tied. ## The same matchup from the other side One page covers both views. From AKo's side the equity is 70.12%, and from AQs' side it is 29.88%. ## Keep exploring The calculator link fills in AsQs against AhKd, a deal where the two hands share no suit. Change any card to test your own hand. The neighboring matchups below swap one of the two hands for one of similar strength. - [Open AsQs against AhKd in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=AsQs&p2=AhKd) - [AQs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/aqs.md) - [AKo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/ako.md) - [AQs vs ATs](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-ats.md) - [AQs vs AQo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-aqo.md) - [AJs vs AKo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajs-vs-ako.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed Method: exact enumeration. The 36 specific deals are grouped by suit pattern, each is run against all 1,712,304 boards, and both seven-card hands are scored. Equity adds half of every tie, and flop textures are tallied over the ten flops inside each board. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [AQs vs ATs: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-ats.md) - [AQs vs AQo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-aqo.md) - [AJs vs AKo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajs-vs-ako.md)