--- title: "KJs vs A6s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjs-vs-a6s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjs-vs-a6s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "Who is ahead, KJs or A6s? A6s leads 56.60% to 43.40% before the flop, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjs-vs-kto.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjs-vs-qts.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a8s-vs-a6s.md"] --- # KJs vs A6s: preflop equity Who is ahead, KJs or A6s? A6s leads 56.60% to 43.40% before the flop, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Over all 1,712,304 boards that can follow this deal, A6s finishes with 56.60% of the pot and KJs with 43.40%. ## KJs against A6s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for KJs against A6s, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KJs | 43.155 | 0.491 | 56.354 | 43.401 | | A6s | 56.354 | 0.491 | 43.155 | 56.599 | Each side holds one of the suited hands: KJs and A6s. With no overlap in ranks, every card that pairs one hand is a card that does not pair the other. A 13.20 point lead is real, and KJs still takes about 432 of every 1,000 deals outright. Ties are 0.49% of the outcomes here; each tied board gives both hands half the pot. In the ranking of all 169 starting hands, KJs is number 20 and A6s is number 31. **Boards behind the percentages: 27,396,864 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KJs | 11,823,000 | 135,000 | 15,439,000 | | A6s | 15,439,000 | 135,000 | 11,823,000 | The board total is exact, 16 deals at 1,712,304 boards each. Won, tied and lost counts are rounded to the nearest thousand from the five-decimal percentages. **KJs 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KJs | 0.767 | 2.317 | 1.774 | 1.304 | | A6s | 1.304 | 1.774 | 2.317 | 0.767 | 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 Split by what the flop looks like, A6s peaks at 74.47% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) and bottoms out at 50.30% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better. A6s stays ahead on all five textures, but the swing between them is large, so how the flop looks matters a great deal. **KJs against A6s by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | KJs wins | Ties | A6s wins | KJs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.867 | 49.654 | 0.096 | 50.250 | 49.702 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.042 | 25.070 | 0.915 | 74.015 | 25.527 | | Two-tone | 46.727 | 44.501 | 0.252 | 55.247 | 44.627 | | Monotone | 5.273 | 44.185 | 3.406 | 52.409 | 45.888 | | Paired | 17.091 | 37.533 | 0.624 | 61.843 | 37.845 | 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 Compared with a random opponent, this matchup shifts KJs from 62.57% by -19.17 points and A6s from 59.91% by -3.31 points. **KJs 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KJs, all flops | 43.401 | 62.567 | -19.166 | 0.69367 | | KJs, rainbow, ten or higher | 49.702 | 62.567 | -12.865 | 0.79438 | | KJs, rainbow, nine or lower | 25.527 | 62.567 | -37.040 | 0.40799 | | KJs, two-tone | 44.627 | 62.567 | -17.940 | 0.71327 | | KJs, monotone | 45.888 | 62.567 | -16.679 | 0.73342 | | KJs, paired | 37.845 | 62.567 | -24.722 | 0.60487 | | A6s, all flops | 56.599 | 59.906 | -3.307 | 0.94480 | | A6s, rainbow, ten or higher | 50.298 | 59.906 | -9.608 | 0.83962 | | A6s, rainbow, nine or lower | 74.473 | 59.906 | +14.567 | 1.24316 | | A6s, two-tone | 55.373 | 59.906 | -4.533 | 0.92433 | | A6s, monotone | 54.112 | 59.906 | -5.794 | 0.90328 | | A6s, paired | 62.155 | 59.906 | +2.249 | 1.03754 | ## Does a shared suit matter? When the hands share a suit, A6s holds 58.45%; when they do not, it holds 55.98%. A6s does better with a shared suit, by 2.47 points. **KJs against A6s by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | KJs wins | Ties | A6s wins | KJs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 4 | 25.00 | 41.262 | 0.569 | 58.169 | 41.546 | | No shared suit | 12 | 75.00 | 43.786 | 0.465 | 55.749 | 44.019 | ## How often this matchup comes up Exactly 16 specific deals fit this matchup in one seat order, which is 0.0010% of 1,624,350; both orders together give 32, or 0.0020%. ## A worked example To see what the equity is worth, imagine $100 each in a $200 pot. A6s is worth $113.20 on average (+$13.20); KJs is worth $86.80 (-$13.20). Out of 1,000 deals you should see around 563 outright wins for A6s, 432 for KJs, and 5 split pots. ## The same matchup from the other side One page covers both views. From A6s' side the equity is 56.60%, and from KJs' side it is 43.40%. ## Keep exploring KsJs 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 KsJs against Ah6h in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=KsJs&p2=Ah6h) - [KJs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/kjs.md) - [A6s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/a6s.md) - [KJs vs KTo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjs-vs-kto.md) - [KJs vs QTs](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjs-vs-qts.md) - [A8s vs A6s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a8s-vs-a6s.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed Nothing here is simulated. The 16 deals of KJs against A6s fall into a few suit patterns, each dealt against all 1,712,304 boards, with both best five-card hands compared on every board. Ties give each hand half a win, and the flop rows count a board under each of its ten flops. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [KJs vs KTo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjs-vs-kto.md) - [KJs vs QTs: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjs-vs-qts.md) - [A8s vs A6s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a8s-vs-a6s.md)