--- title: "AQs vs KJs: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-kjs.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-kjs" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "AQs is a big favorite over KJs before the flop: 61.77% to 38.23% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-a8s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-kts.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajs-vs-kjs.md"] --- # AQs vs KJs: preflop equity AQs is a big favorite over KJs before the flop: 61.77% to 38.23% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. The exact count puts AQs at 61.77% and KJs at 38.23% when the two hands see all five board cards. ## AQs against KJs: the numbers **Exact preflop results for AQs against KJs, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AQs | 61.506 | 0.524 | 37.970 | 61.768 | | KJs | 37.970 | 0.524 | 61.506 | 38.232 | Both hands are suited hands: AQs and KJs. Neither hand shares a rank with the other, so this is a contest of high cards, connection and suits. That is a modest edge, the kind that shows up over many hands and is easy to miss in one. 0.52% of boards are ties, so the equity of each hand is its win rate plus half of that. Ranked by equity against a random hand, AQs is number 10 of the 169 starting hands and KJs is number 20. **Boards behind the percentages: 27,396,864 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AQs | 16,851,000 | 144,000 | 10,403,000 | | KJs | 10,403,000 | 144,000 | 16,851,000 | The total is exact: 16 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 KJs 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 | 1.616 | 1.626 | 2.634 | 0.619 | | KJs | 0.619 | 2.634 | 1.626 | 1.616 | 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 Across the five flop textures AQs' equity moves by 17.06 points, from 57.59% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better to 74.65% 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 KJs by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | AQs wins | Ties | KJs wins | AQs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.138 | 57.557 | 0.068 | 42.375 | 57.591 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.771 | 74.077 | 1.142 | 24.781 | 74.648 | | Two-tone | 46.727 | 60.739 | 0.292 | 38.969 | 60.885 | | Monotone | 5.273 | 56.870 | 3.423 | 39.707 | 58.581 | | Paired | 17.091 | 64.667 | 0.600 | 34.733 | 64.967 | 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 Relative to a random opponent, AQs changes by -4.44 points (baseline 66.21%) and KJs by -24.34 points (baseline 62.57%). **AQs and KJs 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 | 61.768 | 66.209 | -4.441 | 0.93292 | | AQs, rainbow, ten or higher | 57.591 | 66.209 | -8.618 | 0.86984 | | AQs, rainbow, nine or lower | 74.648 | 66.209 | +8.439 | 1.12746 | | AQs, two-tone | 60.885 | 66.209 | -5.324 | 0.91959 | | AQs, monotone | 58.581 | 66.209 | -7.628 | 0.88479 | | AQs, paired | 64.967 | 66.209 | -1.242 | 0.98124 | | KJs, all flops | 38.232 | 62.567 | -24.335 | 0.61106 | | KJs, rainbow, ten or higher | 42.409 | 62.567 | -20.158 | 0.67782 | | KJs, rainbow, nine or lower | 25.352 | 62.567 | -37.215 | 0.40520 | | KJs, two-tone | 39.115 | 62.567 | -23.452 | 0.62517 | | KJs, monotone | 41.419 | 62.567 | -21.148 | 0.66199 | | KJs, paired | 35.033 | 62.567 | -27.534 | 0.55993 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Split by suits, the deals give AQs 64.11% when the hands overlap in a suit and 60.99% when they do not. AQs does better with a shared suit, by 3.12 points. **AQs against KJs by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | AQs wins | Ties | KJs wins | AQs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 4 | 25.00 | 63.803 | 0.603 | 35.594 | 64.105 | | No shared suit | 12 | 75.00 | 60.741 | 0.497 | 38.762 | 60.989 | ## How often this matchup comes up AQs against KJs is made up of 16 specific-card matchups in one seat order, 0.0010% of the 1,624,350 ordered deals, and 32 counting both seat orders, 0.0020%. ## A worked example Say each player puts $100 in before the flop, making a $200 pot. On average AQs takes back $123.54 of it, which is $23.54 more than it put in, and KJs takes back $76.46, $23.54 less than it put in. Scaled to 1,000 deals, that is roughly 615 wins for AQs, 380 for KJs and 5 chopped pots. ## The same matchup from the other side KJs versus AQs is this same page seen from the other hand: 38.23% for KJs, 61.77% for AQs. ## Keep exploring AsQs against KhJh 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 KhJh in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=AsQs&p2=KhJh) - [AQs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/aqs.md) - [KJs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/kjs.md) - [AQs vs A8s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-a8s.md) - [AQs vs KTs](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-kts.md) - [AJs vs KJs](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajs-vs-kjs.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 16 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 A8s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-a8s.md) - [AQs vs KTs: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-kts.md) - [AJs vs KJs: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajs-vs-kjs.md)