--- title: "KJo vs A6s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjo-vs-a6s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjo-vs-a6s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "Who is ahead, KJo or A6s? A6s leads 59.37% to 40.63% before the flop, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjo-vs-kto.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjo-vs-qts.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/55-vs-a6s.md"] --- # KJo vs A6s: preflop equity Who is ahead, KJo or A6s? A6s leads 59.37% to 40.63% before the flop, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. In equity, A6s against KJo stands at 59.37% to 40.63%, a gap of 18.74 points. ## KJo against A6s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for KJo against A6s, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KJo | 40.406 | 0.448 | 59.146 | 40.630 | | A6s | 59.146 | 0.448 | 40.406 | 59.370 | KJo and A6s are an offsuit hand and a suited hand, in that order. With no overlap in ranks, every card that pairs one hand is a card that does not pair the other. A 18.74 point lead is real, and KJo still takes about 404 of every 1,000 deals outright. Split pots make up 0.45% of the boards, and both equity figures count them as half a win each. For context, KJo sits at number 26 of 169 starting hands and A6s at number 31 when each is run against a random hand. **Boards behind the percentages: 82,190,592 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KJo | 33,210,000 | 368,000 | 48,612,000 | | A6s | 48,612,000 | 368,000 | 33,210,000 | 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. **KJo 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KJo | 0.684 | 2.475 | 1.691 | 1.461 | | A6s | 1.461 | 1.691 | 2.475 | 0.684 | 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 By flop texture, A6s' equity runs from 51.59% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better up to 76.96% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower). A6s stays ahead on all five textures, but the swing between them is large, so how the flop looks matters a great deal. **KJo against A6s by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | KJo wins | Ties | A6s wins | KJo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.988 | 48.364 | 0.099 | 51.537 | 48.414 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.042 | 22.567 | 0.954 | 76.479 | 23.044 | | Two-tone | 46.667 | 40.862 | 0.271 | 58.867 | 40.998 | | Monotone | 5.212 | 42.684 | 2.372 | 54.944 | 43.870 | | Paired | 17.091 | 34.647 | 0.624 | 64.729 | 34.959 | 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, KJo changes by -19.94 points (baseline 60.57%) and A6s by -0.54 points (baseline 59.91%). **KJo 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KJo, all flops | 40.630 | 60.569 | -19.939 | 0.67081 | | KJo, rainbow, ten or higher | 48.414 | 60.569 | -12.155 | 0.79932 | | KJo, rainbow, nine or lower | 23.044 | 60.569 | -37.525 | 0.38046 | | KJo, two-tone | 40.998 | 60.569 | -19.571 | 0.67688 | | KJo, monotone | 43.870 | 60.569 | -16.699 | 0.72430 | | KJo, paired | 34.959 | 60.569 | -25.610 | 0.57718 | | A6s, all flops | 59.370 | 59.906 | -0.536 | 0.99105 | | A6s, rainbow, ten or higher | 51.586 | 59.906 | -8.320 | 0.86112 | | A6s, rainbow, nine or lower | 76.956 | 59.906 | +17.050 | 1.28461 | | A6s, two-tone | 59.002 | 59.906 | -0.904 | 0.98491 | | A6s, monotone | 56.130 | 59.906 | -3.776 | 0.93697 | | A6s, paired | 65.041 | 59.906 | +5.135 | 1.08572 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Of the deals of this matchup, 24 share a suit (A6s at 59.02%) and 24 do not (59.72%). A6s does better with no shared suit, by 0.70 points. **KJo against A6s by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | KJo wins | Ties | A6s wins | KJo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 24 | 50.00 | 40.736 | 0.489 | 58.775 | 40.980 | | No shared suit | 24 | 50.00 | 40.076 | 0.407 | 59.517 | 40.280 | ## 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 Put $100 each into a $200 pot and deal every board once: A6s averages $118.74 back, ahead of its $100 by $18.74, while KJo averages $81.26, short of its $100 by $18.74. Think in thousands: about 591 of 1,000 go to A6s, about 404 go to KJo, and about 5 are chopped. ## The same matchup from the other side Read it from the other side: A6s against KJo is the same matchup with the numbers swapped, so A6s holds 59.37% and KJo holds 40.63%. That address sends you back to this page. ## Keep exploring Open the calculator with KsJh against Ad6d 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 KsJh against Ad6d in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=KsJh&p2=Ad6d) - [KJo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/kjo.md) - [A6s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/a6s.md) - [KJo vs KTo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjo-vs-kto.md) - [KJo vs QTs](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjo-vs-qts.md) - [55 vs A6s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/55-vs-a6s.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed We counted every case. Each suit pattern of the 48 specific KJo 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 - [KJo vs KTo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjo-vs-kto.md) - [KJo vs QTs: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjo-vs-qts.md) - [55 vs A6s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/55-vs-a6s.md)