--- title: "K9s vs A6s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9s-vs-a6s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9s-vs-a6s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "Who is ahead, K9s or A6s? A6s leads 58.25% to 41.75% before the flop, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9s-vs-kto.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9s-vs-qts.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a5s-vs-a6s.md"] --- # K9s vs A6s: preflop equity Who is ahead, K9s or A6s? A6s leads 58.25% to 41.75% before the flop, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Dealt all in against each other, A6s takes 58.25% of the pot on average and K9s takes the other 41.75%. ## K9s against A6s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for K9s against A6s, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | K9s | 41.506 | 0.483 | 58.011 | 41.748 | | A6s | 58.011 | 0.483 | 41.506 | 58.252 | Here suited hands face each other, K9s on one side and A6s on the other. Neither hand shares a rank with the other, so this is a contest of high cards, connection and suits. A 16.50 point lead is real, and K9s still takes about 415 of every 1,000 deals outright. Split pots make up 0.48% of the boards, and both equity figures count them as half a win each. K9s ranks number 29 of 169 starting hands, and A6s ranks number 31, by equity against a random hand. **Boards behind the percentages: 27,396,864 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | K9s | 11,371,000 | 132,000 | 15,893,000 | | A6s | 15,893,000 | 132,000 | 11,371,000 | 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. **K9s against A6s read as odds** | Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | K9s | 0.717 | 2.409 | 1.724 | 1.395 | | A6s | 1.395 | 1.724 | 2.409 | 0.717 | 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 If you know the kind of flop that came, the numbers shift: A6s holds 63.03% on paired flops and 55.50% on monotone flops. A6s stays ahead on all five textures. **K9s against A6s by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | K9s wins | Ties | A6s wins | K9s equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 24.543 | 41.999 | 0.136 | 57.865 | 42.067 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 6.366 | 42.484 | 0.781 | 56.735 | 42.874 | | Two-tone | 46.727 | 42.744 | 0.241 | 57.015 | 42.865 | | Monotone | 5.273 | 42.801 | 3.401 | 53.798 | 44.501 | | Paired | 17.091 | 36.650 | 0.633 | 62.717 | 36.966 | 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 The table below sets each hand against its own random-hand baseline: a change of -18.24 points for K9s, from 59.99%, and -1.66 for A6s, from 59.91%. **K9s and A6s 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | K9s, all flops | 41.748 | 59.988 | -18.240 | 0.69594 | | K9s, rainbow, ten or higher | 42.067 | 59.988 | -17.921 | 0.70126 | | K9s, rainbow, nine or lower | 42.874 | 59.988 | -17.114 | 0.71471 | | K9s, two-tone | 42.865 | 59.988 | -17.123 | 0.71456 | | K9s, monotone | 44.501 | 59.988 | -15.487 | 0.74183 | | K9s, paired | 36.966 | 59.988 | -23.022 | 0.61622 | | A6s, all flops | 58.252 | 59.906 | -1.654 | 0.97239 | | A6s, rainbow, ten or higher | 57.933 | 59.906 | -1.973 | 0.96707 | | A6s, rainbow, nine or lower | 57.126 | 59.906 | -2.780 | 0.95359 | | A6s, two-tone | 57.135 | 59.906 | -2.771 | 0.95374 | | A6s, monotone | 55.499 | 59.906 | -4.407 | 0.92643 | | A6s, paired | 63.034 | 59.906 | +3.128 | 1.05222 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Does suit overlap move the numbers? A6s has 60.26% when the hands share a suit and 57.58% when they do not. A6s does better with a shared suit, by 2.68 points. **K9s against A6s by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | K9s wins | Ties | A6s wins | K9s equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 4 | 25.00 | 39.458 | 0.560 | 59.982 | 39.738 | | No shared suit | 12 | 75.00 | 42.188 | 0.458 | 57.354 | 42.417 | ## How often this matchup comes up Out of 1,624,350 ways to deal two seats two cards each, 16 are K9s in one seat and A6s in the other (0.0010%); with the seats swapped too, 32 (0.0020%). ## A worked example Take a $200 pot built from $100 each. A6s' equity of 58.25% is worth $116.50, a $16.50 edge, and K9s' 41.75% is worth $83.50, which is $16.50 under its stake. Per 1,000 deals: A6s wins about 580, K9s wins about 415, and about 5 end in a split pot. ## The same matchup from the other side A6s versus K9s is this same page seen from the other hand: 58.25% for A6s, 41.75% for K9s. ## Keep exploring Ks9s against Ah6h 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 Ks9s against Ah6h in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=Ks9s&p2=Ah6h) - [K9s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/k9s.md) - [A6s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/a6s.md) - [K9s vs KTo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9s-vs-kto.md) - [K9s vs QTs](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9s-vs-qts.md) - [A5s vs A6s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a5s-vs-a6s.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed We counted every case. Each suit pattern of the 16 specific K9s against A6s 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 - [K9s vs KTo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9s-vs-kto.md) - [K9s vs QTs: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9s-vs-qts.md) - [A5s vs A6s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a5s-vs-a6s.md)