--- title: "AQs vs KQs: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-kqs.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-kqs" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "AQs is a big favorite over KQs before the flop: 71.42% to 28.58% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-66.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-a9s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajs-vs-kqs.md"] --- # AQs vs KQs: preflop equity AQs is a big favorite over KQs before the flop: 71.42% to 28.58% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. The exact count puts AQs at 71.42% and KQs at 28.58% when the two hands see all five board cards. ## AQs against KQs: the numbers **Exact preflop results for AQs against KQs, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AQs | 70.848 | 1.139 | 28.013 | 71.418 | | KQs | 28.013 | 1.139 | 70.848 | 28.582 | AQs and KQs are both suited hands. 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 42.84 points is large but not decisive: KQs still takes about 280 of every 1,000 deals. Ties are part of the picture: 1.14% 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 KQs is number 16 by strength against a random hand. **Boards behind the percentages: 20,547,648 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AQs | 14,558,000 | 234,000 | 5,756,000 | | KQs | 5,756,000 | 234,000 | 14,558,000 | Exact total: 12 deals times 1,712,304 boards. The other three counts come from the five-decimal percentages and are rounded to the nearest thousand, so read them as approximate. **AQs against KQs 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 | 2.499 | 1.411 | 3.570 | 0.400 | | KQs | 0.400 | 3.570 | 1.411 | 2.499 | 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 Across the five flop textures AQs' equity moves by 19.86 points, from 64.21% on monotone flops to 84.07% 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 KQs by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | AQs wins | Ties | KQs wins | AQs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.138 | 68.849 | 0.743 | 30.408 | 69.220 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.771 | 83.451 | 1.232 | 15.317 | 84.067 | | Two-tone | 46.543 | 69.658 | 0.762 | 29.580 | 70.039 | | Monotone | 5.215 | 62.469 | 3.475 | 34.056 | 64.206 | | Paired | 17.333 | 73.583 | 1.935 | 24.482 | 74.550 | 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, 63.40% for KQs. Here the change is +5.21 and -34.82 points. **AQs and KQs 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 | 71.418 | 66.209 | +5.209 | 1.07868 | | AQs, rainbow, ten or higher | 69.220 | 66.209 | +3.011 | 1.04548 | | AQs, rainbow, nine or lower | 84.067 | 66.209 | +17.858 | 1.26972 | | AQs, two-tone | 70.039 | 66.209 | +3.830 | 1.05785 | | AQs, monotone | 64.206 | 66.209 | -2.003 | 0.96975 | | AQs, paired | 74.550 | 66.209 | +8.341 | 1.12598 | | KQs, all flops | 28.582 | 63.400 | -34.818 | 0.45082 | | KQs, rainbow, ten or higher | 30.780 | 63.400 | -32.620 | 0.48549 | | KQs, rainbow, nine or lower | 15.933 | 63.400 | -47.467 | 0.25131 | | KQs, two-tone | 29.961 | 63.400 | -33.439 | 0.47257 | | KQs, monotone | 35.794 | 63.400 | -27.606 | 0.56457 | | KQs, paired | 25.450 | 63.400 | -37.950 | 0.40142 | ## 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 71.42% in every deal of this matchup. **AQs against KQs by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | AQs wins | Ties | KQs wins | AQs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 0 | 0.00 | not possible | not possible | not possible | not possible | | No shared suit | 12 | 100.00 | 70.848 | 1.139 | 28.013 | 71.418 | ## How often this matchup comes up How often does it happen? 12 of the 1,624,350 ordered deals (0.0007%) are AQs against KQs, and 24 (0.0015%) if either hand may sit in either seat. ## A worked example A $100 all-in from each player makes a $200 pot, and the exact equity says AQs gets $142.84 of it on average and KQs gets $57.16. Scaled to 1,000 deals, that is roughly 709 wins for AQs, 280 for KQs and 11 chopped pots. ## The same matchup from the other side If you came looking for KQs against AQs, the numbers are the same with the hands swapped: 28.58% and 71.42%. ## Keep exploring Open the calculator with AsQs against KhQh 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 KhQh in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=AsQs&p2=KhQh) - [AQs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/aqs.md) - [KQs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/kqs.md) - [AQs vs 66](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-66.md) - [AQs vs A9s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-a9s.md) - [AJs vs KQs](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajs-vs-kqs.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed Each figure is a complete count over boards. Take the 12 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 66: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-66.md) - [AQs vs A9s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-a9s.md) - [AJs vs KQs: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajs-vs-kqs.md)