--- title: "AQs vs T9o: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-t9o.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-t9o" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "AQs is a big favorite over T9o before the flop: 65.01% to 34.99% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-98s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-22.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajs-vs-t9o.md"] --- # AQs vs T9o: preflop equity AQs is a big favorite over T9o before the flop: 65.01% to 34.99% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Before any board card is dealt, AQs holds 65.01% equity against T9o, which leaves T9o with 34.99%. ## AQs against T9o: the numbers **Exact preflop results for AQs against T9o, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AQs | 64.792 | 0.442 | 34.766 | 65.013 | | T9o | 34.766 | 0.442 | 64.792 | 34.987 | AQs is a suited hand and T9o is an offsuit hand. With no overlap in ranks, every card that pairs one hand is a card that does not pair the other. AQs is the clear favorite, though T9o gets there on roughly one board in 3. Split pots make up 0.44% of the boards, and both equity figures count them as half a win each. The hand ranking puts AQs at 10 and T9o at 78 out of 169 starting hands. **Boards behind the percentages: 82,190,592 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AQs | 53,253,000 | 363,000 | 28,574,000 | | T9o | 28,574,000 | 363,000 | 53,253,000 | 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 T9o 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 | 1.858 | 1.543 | 2.876 | 0.538 | | T9o | 0.538 | 2.876 | 1.543 | 1.858 | In the last column, a pot-to-call ratio at or above the figure makes a call break even or better at this equity. ## Who is ahead on which flops If you know the kind of flop that came, the numbers shift: AQs holds 67.72% on paired flops and 55.44% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower). AQs stays ahead on all five textures. **AQs against T9o by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | AQs wins | Ties | T9o wins | AQs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.988 | 66.357 | 0.148 | 33.495 | 66.431 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.042 | 55.055 | 0.771 | 44.174 | 55.441 | | Two-tone | 46.667 | 65.050 | 0.265 | 34.685 | 65.183 | | Monotone | 5.212 | 59.838 | 2.364 | 37.798 | 61.020 | | Paired | 17.091 | 67.411 | 0.620 | 31.969 | 67.721 | Read the flop types this way: rainbow has three suits, two-tone has two cards of one suit, monotone has three, and paired repeats a rank. ## Compared with a random hand Each hand has a baseline against a random hand: 66.21% for AQs, 51.53% for T9o. Here the change is -1.20 and -16.54 points. **AQs and T9o 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 | 65.013 | 66.209 | -1.196 | 0.98194 | | AQs, rainbow, ten or higher | 66.431 | 66.209 | +0.222 | 1.00335 | | AQs, rainbow, nine or lower | 55.441 | 66.209 | -10.768 | 0.83736 | | AQs, two-tone | 65.183 | 66.209 | -1.026 | 0.98450 | | AQs, monotone | 61.020 | 66.209 | -5.189 | 0.92163 | | AQs, paired | 67.721 | 66.209 | +1.512 | 1.02284 | | T9o, all flops | 34.987 | 51.532 | -16.545 | 0.67894 | | T9o, rainbow, ten or higher | 33.569 | 51.532 | -17.963 | 0.65142 | | T9o, rainbow, nine or lower | 44.559 | 51.532 | -6.973 | 0.86469 | | T9o, two-tone | 34.817 | 51.532 | -16.715 | 0.67564 | | T9o, monotone | 38.980 | 51.532 | -12.552 | 0.75642 | | T9o, paired | 32.279 | 51.532 | -19.253 | 0.62639 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Split by suits, the deals give AQs 64.80% when the hands overlap in a suit and 65.22% when they do not. AQs does better with no shared suit, by 0.42 points. **AQs against T9o by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | AQs wins | Ties | T9o wins | AQs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 24 | 50.00 | 64.561 | 0.483 | 34.956 | 64.802 | | No shared suit | 24 | 50.00 | 65.023 | 0.401 | 34.576 | 65.223 | ## How often this matchup comes up This page stands for 48 specific-card matchups (0.0030% of 1,624,350 ordered deals), or 96 once you count the seats both ways (0.0059%). ## A worked example Take a $200 pot built from $100 each. AQs' equity of 65.01% is worth $130.02, a $30.02 edge, and T9o's 34.99% is worth $69.98, which is $30.02 under its stake. Out of 1,000 deals you should see around 648 outright wins for AQs, 348 for T9o, and 4 split pots. ## The same matchup from the other side The reversed view, T9o against AQs, shows 34.99% for T9o and 65.01% for AQs. It is the same count, so it redirects here. ## Keep exploring Try AsQs against Th9d in the calculator: the hands share no suit, and every card can be changed. The links after it are the closest matchups in the ranking. - [Open AsQs against Th9d in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=AsQs&p2=Th9d) - [AQs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/aqs.md) - [T9o combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/t9o.md) - [AQs vs 98s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-98s.md) - [AQs vs 22](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-22.md) - [AJs vs T9o](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajs-vs-t9o.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 48 specific deals of AQs against T9o, 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 98s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-98s.md) - [AQs vs 22: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-22.md) - [AJs vs T9o: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajs-vs-t9o.md)