KK
68.07%
Wins 67.88%, ties 0.39%
A6s
31.93%
Wins 31.73%, ties 0.39%
KK against A6s: the numbers
| Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KK | 67.875 | 0.394 | 31.731 | 68.072 |
| A6s | 31.731 | 0.394 | 67.875 | 31.928 |
The matchup pits a pocket pair against a suited hand. The pair is ahead of one card and behind the other, so the board decides how that plays out.
A lead of 36.14 points is large but not decisive: A6s still takes about 317 of every 1,000 deals. The tie share is 0.39%: on those boards the pot is chopped and neither hand wins outright.
For context, KK sits at number 2 of 169 starting hands and A6s at number 31 when each is run against a random hand.
| Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about |
|---|---|---|---|
| KK | 27,893,000 | 162,000 | 13,040,000 |
| A6s | 13,040,000 | 162,000 | 27,893,000 |
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.
| Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KK | 2.132 | 1.473 | 3.151 | 0.469 |
| A6s | 0.469 | 3.151 | 1.473 | 2.132 |
The last column is the smallest pot odds, written as a pot-to-call ratio, at which a call breaks even with this equity.
Who is ahead on which flops
Low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) are the best for KK (75.31%); monotone flops are the worst (63.50%). KK stays ahead on all five textures.
| Flop | Share of flops | KK wins | Ties | A6s wins | KK equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.867 | 67.767 | 0.156 | 32.077 | 67.845 |
| Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.042 | 74.787 | 1.055 | 24.158 | 75.314 |
| Two-tone | 46.545 | 66.102 | 0.333 | 33.565 | 66.269 |
| Monotone | 5.212 | 62.294 | 2.416 | 35.290 | 63.502 |
| Paired | 17.334 | 71.652 | 0.010 | 28.338 | 71.657 |
Flop types: rainbow means three different suits, two-tone means one suit twice, monotone means one suit three times, paired means a repeated rank.
Compared with a random hand
Against one random hand instead, KK holds 82.40% and A6s holds 59.91%. Facing each other changes that by -14.33 points for KK and -27.98 points for A6s.
| Case | Equity here | Against a random hand | Change in points | Times the random-hand equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KK, all flops | 68.072 | 82.396 | -14.324 | 0.82616 |
| KK, rainbow, ten or higher | 67.845 | 82.396 | -14.551 | 0.82340 |
| KK, rainbow, nine or lower | 75.314 | 82.396 | -7.082 | 0.91405 |
| KK, two-tone | 66.269 | 82.396 | -16.127 | 0.80427 |
| KK, monotone | 63.502 | 82.396 | -18.894 | 0.77069 |
| KK, paired | 71.657 | 82.396 | -10.739 | 0.86967 |
| A6s, all flops | 31.928 | 59.906 | -27.978 | 0.53297 |
| A6s, rainbow, ten or higher | 32.155 | 59.906 | -27.751 | 0.53676 |
| A6s, rainbow, nine or lower | 24.686 | 59.906 | -35.220 | 0.41208 |
| A6s, two-tone | 33.731 | 59.906 | -26.175 | 0.56307 |
| A6s, monotone | 36.498 | 59.906 | -23.408 | 0.60925 |
| A6s, paired | 28.343 | 59.906 | -31.563 | 0.47312 |
Does a shared suit matter?
Split by suits, the deals give KK 68.37% when the hands overlap in a suit and 67.77% when they do not. KK does better with a shared suit, by 0.60 points.
| Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | KK wins | Ties | A6s wins | KK equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Share a suit | 12 | 50.00 | 68.154 | 0.435 | 31.411 | 68.371 |
| No shared suit | 12 | 50.00 | 67.596 | 0.353 | 32.051 | 67.772 |
How often this matchup comes up
KK against A6s is made up of 24 specific-card matchups in one seat order, 0.0015% of the 1,624,350 ordered deals, and 48 counting both seat orders, 0.0030%.
A worked example
Say each player puts $100 in before the flop, making a $200 pot. On average KK takes back $136.14 of it, which is $36.14 more than it put in, and A6s takes back $63.86, $36.14 less than it put in.
Run 1,000 deals and the tally comes out near 679 for KK, 317 for A6s and 4 ties.
The same matchup from the other side
Swap the hands and you get A6s with 31.93% against KK with 68.07%. We keep one page per matchup, with the better-ranked hand first.
Keep exploring
Try KsKh against Ad6d 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.
How this was computed
Nothing here is simulated. The 24 deals of KK 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.
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