--- title: "AQs vs KTo: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-kto.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-kto" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "AQs is a big favorite over KTo before the flop: 64.34% to 35.66% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-qts.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-a4s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajs-vs-kto.md"] --- # AQs vs KTo: preflop equity AQs is a big favorite over KTo before the flop: 64.34% to 35.66% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Dealt all in against each other, AQs takes 64.34% of the pot on average and KTo takes the other 35.66%. ## AQs against KTo: the numbers **Exact preflop results for AQs against KTo, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AQs | 64.108 | 0.472 | 35.420 | 64.344 | | KTo | 35.420 | 0.472 | 64.108 | 35.656 | The first hand is a suited hand; the second is an offsuit hand. With no overlap in ranks, every card that pairs one hand is a card that does not pair the other. A 28.68 point lead is real, and KTo still takes about 354 of every 1,000 deals outright. The tie share is 0.47%: on those boards the pot is chopped and neither hand wins outright. In the ranking of all 169 starting hands, AQs is number 10 and KTo is number 33. **Boards behind the percentages: 82,190,592 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AQs | 52,691,000 | 388,000 | 29,112,000 | | KTo | 29,112,000 | 388,000 | 52,691,000 | Exact total: 48 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 KTo 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 | 1.805 | 1.560 | 2.823 | 0.554 | | KTo | 0.554 | 2.823 | 1.560 | 1.805 | 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 By flop texture, AQs' equity runs from 58.98% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better up to 75.73% 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 KTo by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | AQs wins | Ties | KTo wins | AQs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.260 | 58.928 | 0.113 | 40.959 | 58.984 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.770 | 75.235 | 0.994 | 23.771 | 75.732 | | Two-tone | 46.667 | 64.178 | 0.302 | 35.520 | 64.329 | | Monotone | 5.212 | 58.923 | 2.386 | 38.691 | 60.116 | | Paired | 17.091 | 67.487 | 0.604 | 31.909 | 67.789 | 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 Start from the random-hand figures, 66.21% for AQs and 59.74% for KTo. This opponent changes them by -1.87 and -24.08 points. **AQs and KTo 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 | 64.344 | 66.209 | -1.865 | 0.97183 | | AQs, rainbow, ten or higher | 58.984 | 66.209 | -7.225 | 0.89088 | | AQs, rainbow, nine or lower | 75.732 | 66.209 | +9.523 | 1.14383 | | AQs, two-tone | 64.329 | 66.209 | -1.880 | 0.97161 | | AQs, monotone | 60.116 | 66.209 | -6.093 | 0.90797 | | AQs, paired | 67.789 | 66.209 | +1.580 | 1.02386 | | KTo, all flops | 35.656 | 59.739 | -24.083 | 0.59686 | | KTo, rainbow, ten or higher | 41.016 | 59.739 | -18.723 | 0.68659 | | KTo, rainbow, nine or lower | 24.268 | 59.739 | -35.471 | 0.40623 | | KTo, two-tone | 35.671 | 59.739 | -24.068 | 0.59711 | | KTo, monotone | 39.884 | 59.739 | -19.855 | 0.66764 | | KTo, paired | 32.211 | 59.739 | -27.528 | 0.53920 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Looking only at deals where the hands share a suit, AQs has 64.10%; looking only at deals where they do not, 64.59%. AQs does better with no shared suit, by 0.49 points. **AQs against KTo by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | AQs wins | Ties | KTo wins | AQs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 24 | 50.00 | 63.846 | 0.512 | 35.642 | 64.102 | | No shared suit | 24 | 50.00 | 64.370 | 0.431 | 35.199 | 64.585 | ## How often this matchup comes up How often does it happen? 48 of the 1,624,350 ordered deals (0.0030%) are AQs against KTo, and 96 (0.0059%) if either hand may sit in either seat. ## A worked example Worked example: both players commit $100, so $200 sits in the middle. Over every board, AQs' average share is $128.68 (a gain of $28.68) and KTo's is $71.32 (a loss of $28.68). A thousand deals look like this: AQs takes 641, KTo takes 354, 5 are ties. ## The same matchup from the other side The mirror image, KTo against AQs, is 35.66% to 64.34%, and its address redirects to this page. ## Keep exploring AsQs against KhTd 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 KhTd in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=AsQs&p2=KhTd) - [AQs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/aqs.md) - [KTo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/kto.md) - [AQs vs QTs](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-qts.md) - [AQs vs A4s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-a4s.md) - [AJs vs KTo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajs-vs-kto.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed We counted every case. Each suit pattern of the 48 specific AQs against KTo deals meets all 1,712,304 boards, and the better five-card hand wins; a split pot is half a win each. The flop table reads each board under all ten of its three-card flops. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [AQs vs QTs: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-qts.md) - [AQs vs A4s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-a4s.md) - [AJs vs KTo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajs-vs-kto.md)