--- title: "ATs vs KQo: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ats-vs-kqo.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ats-vs-kqo" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "ATs is a big favorite over KQo before the flop: 61.90% to 38.11% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ats-vs-a7s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ats-vs-a9o.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqo-vs-kqo.md"] --- # ATs vs KQo: preflop equity ATs is a big favorite over KQo before the flop: 61.90% to 38.11% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. If ATs and KQo get all the chips in before the flop, ATs owns 61.90% of the pot in the long run and KQo owns 38.10%. ## ATs against KQo: the numbers **Exact preflop results for ATs against KQo, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | ATs | 61.658 | 0.474 | 37.868 | 61.895 | | KQo | 37.868 | 0.474 | 61.658 | 38.105 | We compare a suited hand with an offsuit hand. With no overlap in ranks, every card that pairs one hand is a card that does not pair the other. That is a modest edge, the kind that shows up over many hands and is easy to miss in one. Split pots make up 0.47% of the boards, and both equity figures count them as half a win each. ATs ranks number 13 of 169 starting hands, and KQo ranks number 23, by equity against a random hand. **Boards behind the percentages: 82,190,592 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | ATs | 50,677,000 | 390,000 | 31,124,000 | | KQo | 31,124,000 | 390,000 | 50,677,000 | 48 specific deals times 1,712,304 boards gives the exact total. The won, tied and lost counts are approximations from the five-decimal percentages, rounded to the nearest thousand. **ATs 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | ATs | 1.624 | 1.622 | 2.641 | 0.616 | | KQo | 0.616 | 2.641 | 1.622 | 1.624 | 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 ATs prefers low rainbow flops (nine high or lower), where it holds 77.13%, and likes rainbow flops topped by a ten or better least, where it holds 54.81%. ATs stays ahead on all five textures, but the swing between them is large, so how the flop looks matters a great deal. **ATs against KQo by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | ATs wins | Ties | KQo wins | ATs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.260 | 54.754 | 0.113 | 45.133 | 54.811 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.770 | 76.635 | 0.998 | 22.367 | 77.134 | | Two-tone | 46.667 | 61.517 | 0.305 | 38.178 | 61.669 | | Monotone | 5.212 | 56.741 | 2.390 | 40.869 | 57.936 | | Paired | 17.091 | 66.127 | 0.604 | 33.269 | 66.429 | 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 Compared with a random opponent, this matchup shifts ATs from 64.60% by -2.70 points and KQo from 61.46% by -23.36 points. **ATs 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | ATs, all flops | 61.895 | 64.602 | -2.707 | 0.95810 | | ATs, rainbow, ten or higher | 54.811 | 64.602 | -9.791 | 0.84844 | | ATs, rainbow, nine or lower | 77.134 | 64.602 | +12.532 | 1.19399 | | ATs, two-tone | 61.669 | 64.602 | -2.933 | 0.95460 | | ATs, monotone | 57.936 | 64.602 | -6.666 | 0.89681 | | ATs, paired | 66.429 | 64.602 | +1.827 | 1.02828 | | KQo, all flops | 38.105 | 61.456 | -23.351 | 0.62004 | | KQo, rainbow, ten or higher | 45.189 | 61.456 | -16.267 | 0.73531 | | KQo, rainbow, nine or lower | 22.866 | 61.456 | -38.590 | 0.37207 | | KQo, two-tone | 38.331 | 61.456 | -23.125 | 0.62371 | | KQo, monotone | 42.064 | 61.456 | -19.392 | 0.68446 | | KQo, paired | 33.571 | 61.456 | -27.885 | 0.54626 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Of the deals of this matchup, 24 share a suit (ATs at 61.60%) and 24 do not (62.19%). ATs does better with no shared suit, by 0.59 points. **ATs against KQo by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | ATs wins | Ties | KQo wins | ATs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 24 | 50.00 | 61.346 | 0.514 | 38.140 | 61.603 | | No shared suit | 24 | 50.00 | 61.970 | 0.434 | 37.596 | 62.187 | ## 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 Worked example: both players commit $100, so $200 sits in the middle. Over every board, ATs' average share is $123.80 (a gain of $23.80) and KQo's is $76.20 (a loss of $23.80). Scaled to 1,000 deals, that is roughly 616 wins for ATs, 379 for KQo and 5 chopped pots. ## The same matchup from the other side Swap the hands and you get KQo with 38.10% against ATs with 61.90%. We keep one page per matchup, with the better-ranked hand first. ## Keep exploring Try AsTs against KhQd 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 AsTs against KhQd in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=AsTs&p2=KhQd) - [ATs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/ats.md) - [KQo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/kqo.md) - [ATs vs A7s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ats-vs-a7s.md) - [ATs vs A9o](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ats-vs-a9o.md) - [AQo vs KQo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqo-vs-kqo.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed We counted every case. Each suit pattern of the 48 specific ATs against KQo 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 - [ATs vs A7s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ats-vs-a7s.md) - [ATs vs A9o: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ats-vs-a9o.md) - [AQo vs KQo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqo-vs-kqo.md)