--- title: "KK vs A6s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-a6s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-a6s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "KK is a big favorite over A6s before the flop: 68.07% to 31.93% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-kto.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-qts.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-a6s.md"] --- # KK vs A6s: preflop equity KK is a big favorite over A6s before the flop: 68.07% to 31.93% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. The exact count puts KK at 68.07% and A6s at 31.93% when the two hands see all five board cards. ## KK against A6s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for KK against A6s, in percent** | 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. **Boards behind the percentages: 41,095,296 counted in all** | 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. **KK 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 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. **KK against A6s by flop texture, in percent** | 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. **KK 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 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. **KK against A6s by suit overlap, in percent** | 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. - [Open KsKh against Ad6d in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=KsKh&p2=Ad6d) - [KK combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/kk.md) - [A6s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/a6s.md) - [KK vs KTo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-kto.md) - [KK vs QTs](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-qts.md) - [QQ vs A6s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-a6s.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## 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. ## Related - [KK vs KTo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-kto.md) - [KK vs QTs: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-qts.md) - [QQ vs A6s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-a6s.md)