--- title: "AQs vs KTs: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-kts.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-kts" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "AQs is a big favorite over KTs before the flop: 61.46% to 38.54% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-kqo.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-a7s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajs-vs-kts.md"] --- # AQs vs KTs: preflop equity AQs is a big favorite over KTs before the flop: 61.46% to 38.54% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. In equity, AQs against KTs stands at 61.46% to 38.54%, a gap of 22.92 points. ## AQs against KTs: the numbers **Exact preflop results for AQs against KTs, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AQs | 61.206 | 0.514 | 38.280 | 61.463 | | KTs | 38.280 | 0.514 | 61.206 | 38.537 | Here suited hands face each other, AQs on one side and KTs on the other. The two hands share no rank, which makes this a pure matchup of card strength, straight chances and flush chances. That is a modest edge, the kind that shows up over many hands and is easy to miss in one. The tie share is 0.51%: on those boards the pot is chopped and neither hand wins outright. The hand ranking puts AQs at 10 and KTs at 22 out of 169 starting hands. **Boards behind the percentages: 27,396,864 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AQs | 16,769,000 | 141,000 | 10,488,000 | | KTs | 10,488,000 | 141,000 | 16,769,000 | 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 KTs 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 | 1.595 | 1.634 | 2.612 | 0.627 | | KTs | 0.627 | 2.612 | 1.634 | 1.595 | 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 Split by what the flop looks like, AQs peaks at 73.31% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) and bottoms out at 57.53% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better. 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 KTs by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | AQs wins | Ties | KTs wins | AQs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.138 | 57.476 | 0.108 | 42.416 | 57.530 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.771 | 72.833 | 0.960 | 26.207 | 73.313 | | Two-tone | 46.727 | 60.418 | 0.280 | 39.302 | 60.558 | | Monotone | 5.273 | 56.644 | 3.417 | 39.939 | 58.353 | | Paired | 17.091 | 64.533 | 0.604 | 34.863 | 64.835 | 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 Relative to a random opponent, AQs changes by -4.75 points (baseline 66.21%) and KTs by -23.25 points (baseline 61.79%). **AQs and KTs 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 | 61.463 | 66.209 | -4.746 | 0.92832 | | AQs, rainbow, ten or higher | 57.530 | 66.209 | -8.679 | 0.86892 | | AQs, rainbow, nine or lower | 73.313 | 66.209 | +7.104 | 1.10730 | | AQs, two-tone | 60.558 | 66.209 | -5.651 | 0.91465 | | AQs, monotone | 58.353 | 66.209 | -7.856 | 0.88135 | | AQs, paired | 64.835 | 66.209 | -1.374 | 0.97925 | | KTs, all flops | 38.537 | 61.789 | -23.252 | 0.62369 | | KTs, rainbow, ten or higher | 42.470 | 61.789 | -19.319 | 0.68734 | | KTs, rainbow, nine or lower | 26.687 | 61.789 | -35.102 | 0.43191 | | KTs, two-tone | 39.442 | 61.789 | -22.347 | 0.63833 | | KTs, monotone | 41.647 | 61.789 | -20.142 | 0.67402 | | KTs, paired | 35.165 | 61.789 | -26.624 | 0.56911 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Split by suits, the deals give AQs 63.77% when the hands overlap in a suit and 60.69% when they do not. AQs does better with a shared suit, by 3.08 points. **AQs against KTs by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | AQs wins | Ties | KTs wins | AQs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 4 | 25.00 | 63.473 | 0.593 | 35.934 | 63.770 | | No shared suit | 12 | 75.00 | 60.450 | 0.488 | 39.062 | 60.694 | ## How often this matchup comes up You will meet this exact matchup 0.0020% of the time in a random heads-up deal: 32 of 1,624,350, counting either seat order. ## A worked example Try it with money: two players each put in $100 and the whole board runs out every possible way. AQs averages $122.92 from the $200, up $22.92; KTs averages $77.08, down $22.92. Scaled to 1,000 deals, that is roughly 612 wins for AQs, 383 for KTs and 5 chopped pots. ## The same matchup from the other side KTs versus AQs is this same page seen from the other hand: 38.54% for KTs, 61.46% for AQs. ## Keep exploring Open the calculator with AsQs against KhTh 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 KhTh in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=AsQs&p2=KhTh) - [AQs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/aqs.md) - [KTs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/kts.md) - [AQs vs KQo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-kqo.md) - [AQs vs A7s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-a7s.md) - [AJs vs KTs](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajs-vs-kts.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed All 1,712,304 five-card boards are dealt for every suit pattern among the 16 specific deals of AQs against KTs, and both hands are scored on each. That is a full count, so the percentages are exact. Ties are half a win each, and each board appears once per flop it contains. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [AQs vs KQo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-kqo.md) - [AQs vs A7s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-a7s.md) - [AJs vs KTs: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajs-vs-kts.md)