--- title: "AQs vs KQo: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-kqo.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-kqo" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "AQs is a big favorite over KQo before the flop: 75.58% to 24.42% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-a7s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-a9o.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajs-vs-kqo.md"] --- # AQs vs KQo: preflop equity AQs is a big favorite over KQo before the flop: 75.58% to 24.42% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. In equity, AQs against KQo stands at 75.58% to 24.42%, a gap of 51.16 points. ## AQs against KQo: the numbers **Exact preflop results for AQs against KQo, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AQs | 75.015 | 1.132 | 23.853 | 75.581 | | KQo | 23.853 | 1.132 | 75.015 | 24.419 | The matchup pits a suited hand against an offsuit hand. Sharing a rank is the signature of a dominated hand, since the weaker hand is usually out-kicked when the shared rank shows up. AQs is the clear favorite, though KQo gets there on roughly one board in 4. Ties are part of the picture: 1.13% of boards end in a split pot, and each side counts that as half a win. Among the 169 starting hands, AQs is number 10 and KQo is number 23 by strength against a random hand. **Boards behind the percentages: 61,642,944 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AQs | 46,241,000 | 698,000 | 14,704,000 | | KQo | 14,704,000 | 698,000 | 46,241,000 | The board total is exact, 36 deals at 1,712,304 boards each. Won, tied and lost counts are rounded to the nearest thousand from the five-decimal percentages. **AQs against KQo 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 | 3.095 | 1.333 | 4.192 | 0.323 | | KQo | 0.323 | 4.192 | 1.333 | 3.095 | 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 By flop texture, AQs' equity runs from 67.55% on monotone flops up to 87.19% 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 KQo by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | AQs wins | Ties | KQo wins | AQs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.177 | 70.988 | 0.757 | 28.255 | 71.367 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.771 | 86.542 | 1.297 | 12.161 | 87.190 | | Two-tone | 46.527 | 75.026 | 0.830 | 24.144 | 75.441 | | Monotone | 5.192 | 66.263 | 2.571 | 31.166 | 67.548 | | Paired | 17.333 | 77.826 | 1.937 | 20.237 | 78.794 | 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 How much does the opponent matter? Compared with its random-hand 66.21%, AQs changes by +9.37 points, and KQo, from 61.46%, by -37.04. **AQs and KQo 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 | 75.581 | 66.209 | +9.372 | 1.14155 | | AQs, rainbow, ten or higher | 71.367 | 66.209 | +5.158 | 1.07790 | | AQs, rainbow, nine or lower | 87.190 | 66.209 | +20.981 | 1.31689 | | AQs, two-tone | 75.441 | 66.209 | +9.232 | 1.13944 | | AQs, monotone | 67.548 | 66.209 | +1.339 | 1.02022 | | AQs, paired | 78.794 | 66.209 | +12.585 | 1.19008 | | KQo, all flops | 24.419 | 61.456 | -37.037 | 0.39734 | | KQo, rainbow, ten or higher | 28.633 | 61.456 | -32.823 | 0.46591 | | KQo, rainbow, nine or lower | 12.810 | 61.456 | -48.646 | 0.20844 | | KQo, two-tone | 24.559 | 61.456 | -36.897 | 0.39962 | | KQo, monotone | 32.452 | 61.456 | -29.004 | 0.52805 | | KQo, paired | 21.206 | 61.456 | -40.250 | 0.34506 | ## Does a shared suit matter? When the hands share a suit, AQs holds 75.34%; when they do not, it holds 75.70%. AQs does better with no shared suit, by 0.36 points. **AQs against KQo by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | AQs wins | Ties | KQo wins | AQs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 12 | 33.33 | 74.747 | 1.195 | 24.058 | 75.344 | | No shared suit | 24 | 66.67 | 75.150 | 1.100 | 23.750 | 75.700 | ## How often this matchup comes up Counting specific cards, AQs against KQo appears in 36 of the 1,624,350 ordered heads-up deals (0.0022%), and in 72 when the seats are swapped too (0.0044%). ## A worked example Take a $200 pot built from $100 each. AQs' equity of 75.58% is worth $151.16, a $51.16 edge, and KQo's 24.42% is worth $48.84, which is $51.16 under its stake. Run 1,000 deals and the tally comes out near 750 for AQs, 239 for KQo and 11 ties. ## The same matchup from the other side The reversed view, KQo against AQs, shows 24.42% for KQo and 75.58% for AQs. It is the same count, so it redirects here. ## Keep exploring Open the calculator with AsQs against KhQd already entered, a deal with no shared suit, and change any card to try your own hand. The matchups after it each swap one hand for a nearby one in the ranking. - [Open AsQs against KhQd in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=AsQs&p2=KhQd) - [AQs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/aqs.md) - [KQo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/kqo.md) - [AQs vs A7s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-a7s.md) - [AQs vs A9o](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-a9o.md) - [AJs vs KQo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajs-vs-kqo.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 36 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 A7s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-a7s.md) - [AQs vs A9o: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-a9o.md) - [AJs vs KQo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajs-vs-kqo.md)