--- title: "JJ vs AKs: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-aks.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-aks" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "Who is ahead, JJ or AKs? JJ leads 54.04% to 45.96% before the flop, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-77.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-aqs.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-aks.md"] --- # JJ vs AKs: preflop equity Who is ahead, JJ or AKs? JJ leads 54.04% to 45.96% before the flop, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Before any board card is dealt, JJ holds 54.04% equity against AKs, which leaves AKs with 45.96%. ## JJ against AKs: the numbers **Exact preflop results for JJ against AKs, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | JJ | 53.829 | 0.420 | 45.751 | 54.039 | | AKs | 45.751 | 0.420 | 53.829 | 45.961 | Here a pocket pair (JJ) meets a suited hand (AKs). A pair against two higher cards is the classic race: the pair is usually a small favorite or close to even, and each overcard that pairs is a way to take the lead. That is a slim edge: neither hand is far ahead. Ties are 0.42% of the outcomes here; each tied board gives both hands half the pot. Ranked by equity against a random hand, JJ is number 4 of the 169 starting hands and AKs is number 8. **Boards behind the percentages: 41,095,296 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | JJ | 22,121,000 | 173,000 | 18,802,000 | | AKs | 18,802,000 | 173,000 | 22,121,000 | The total is exact: 24 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. **JJ against AKs read as odds** | Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | JJ | 1.176 | 1.858 | 2.186 | 0.851 | | AKs | 0.851 | 2.186 | 1.858 | 1.176 | 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 Break the boards down by their first three cards and JJ is strongest on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) (71.21%) and weakest on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better (48.56%). Rainbow flops topped by a ten or better favor AKs, the hand that is behind overall. **JJ against AKs by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | JJ wins | Ties | AKs wins | JJ equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.138 | 48.506 | 0.110 | 51.384 | 48.561 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.771 | 70.605 | 1.201 | 28.194 | 71.205 | | Two-tone | 46.545 | 51.674 | 0.347 | 47.979 | 51.847 | | Monotone | 5.212 | 51.184 | 2.417 | 46.399 | 52.392 | | Paired | 17.334 | 59.994 | 0.083 | 39.923 | 60.035 | Rainbow flops have three suits, two-tone flops repeat one suit, monotone flops are all one suit, and paired flops repeat a rank. ## Compared with a random hand Relative to a random opponent, JJ changes by -23.43 points (baseline 77.47%) and AKs by -21.09 points (baseline 67.05%). **JJ and AKs 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | JJ, all flops | 54.039 | 77.469 | -23.430 | 0.69756 | | JJ, rainbow, ten or higher | 48.561 | 77.469 | -28.908 | 0.62684 | | JJ, rainbow, nine or lower | 71.205 | 77.469 | -6.264 | 0.91914 | | JJ, two-tone | 51.847 | 77.469 | -25.622 | 0.66926 | | JJ, monotone | 52.392 | 77.469 | -25.077 | 0.67630 | | JJ, paired | 60.035 | 77.469 | -17.434 | 0.77496 | | AKs, all flops | 45.961 | 67.045 | -21.084 | 0.68552 | | AKs, rainbow, ten or higher | 51.439 | 67.045 | -15.606 | 0.76723 | | AKs, rainbow, nine or lower | 28.795 | 67.045 | -38.250 | 0.42949 | | AKs, two-tone | 48.153 | 67.045 | -18.892 | 0.71822 | | AKs, monotone | 47.608 | 67.045 | -19.437 | 0.71009 | | AKs, paired | 39.965 | 67.045 | -27.080 | 0.59609 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Split by suits, the deals give JJ 54.21% when the hands overlap in a suit and 53.87% when they do not. JJ does better with a shared suit, by 0.34 points. **JJ against AKs by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | JJ wins | Ties | AKs wins | JJ equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 12 | 50.00 | 53.975 | 0.462 | 45.563 | 54.206 | | No shared suit | 12 | 50.00 | 53.682 | 0.379 | 45.939 | 53.871 | ## How often this matchup comes up How often does it happen? 24 of the 1,624,350 ordered deals (0.0015%) are JJ against AKs, and 48 (0.0030%) 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 JJ gets $108.08 of it on average and AKs gets $91.92. A thousand deals look like this: JJ takes 538, AKs takes 458, 4 are ties. ## The same matchup from the other side The mirror image, AKs against JJ, is 45.96% to 54.04%, and its address redirects to this page. ## Keep exploring Try JsJh against AdKd 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 JsJh against AdKd in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=JsJh&p2=AdKd) - [JJ combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/jj.md) - [AKs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/aks.md) - [JJ vs 77](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-77.md) - [JJ vs AQs](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-aqs.md) - [TT vs AKs](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-aks.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed Each figure is a complete count over boards. Take the 24 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 - [JJ vs 77: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-77.md) - [JJ vs AQs: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-aqs.md) - [TT vs AKs: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-aks.md)