KK
69.88%
Wins 69.46%, ties 0.85%
AKo
30.12%
Wins 29.69%, ties 0.85%
KK against AKo: the numbers
| Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KK | 69.457 | 0.848 | 29.695 | 69.881 |
| AKo | 29.695 | 0.848 | 69.457 | 30.119 |
KK, a pocket pair, plays AKo, an offsuit hand. The non-pair hand shares a rank with the pair, so two of its outs for pairing are blocked by the pair itself.
KK is well ahead, and AKo needs a specific kind of board to catch up. Split pots make up 0.85% of the boards, and both equity figures count them as half a win each.
The hand ranking puts KK at 2 and AKo at 12 out of 169 starting hands.
| Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about |
|---|---|---|---|
| KK | 42,815,000 | 523,000 | 18,305,000 |
| AKo | 18,305,000 | 523,000 | 42,815,000 |
The board total is exact, 36 deals at 1,712,304 boards each. Won, tied and lost counts are rounded to the nearest thousand from the five-decimal percentages.
| Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KK | 2.320 | 1.440 | 3.368 | 0.431 |
| AKo | 0.431 | 3.368 | 1.440 | 2.320 |
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
Across the five flop textures KK's equity moves by 22.57 points, from 62.55% on monotone flops to 85.12% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower). KK stays ahead on all five textures, but the swing between them is large, so how the flop looks matters a great deal.
| Flop | Share of flops | KK wins | Ties | AKo wins | KK equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.053 | 63.630 | 0.862 | 35.508 | 64.061 |
| Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.771 | 84.430 | 1.385 | 14.185 | 85.123 |
| Two-tone | 46.215 | 68.076 | 0.946 | 30.978 | 68.549 |
| Monotone | 5.130 | 61.732 | 1.642 | 36.626 | 62.553 |
| Paired | 17.831 | 76.264 | 0.112 | 23.624 | 76.320 |
Read the flop types this way: rainbow has three suits, two-tone has two cards of one suit, monotone has three, and paired repeats a rank.
Compared with a random hand
Compared with a random opponent, this matchup shifts KK from 82.40% by -12.52 points and AKo from 65.32% by -35.20 points.
| Case | Equity here | Against a random hand | Change in points | Times the random-hand equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KK, all flops | 69.881 | 82.396 | -12.515 | 0.84811 |
| KK, rainbow, ten or higher | 64.061 | 82.396 | -18.335 | 0.77748 |
| KK, rainbow, nine or lower | 85.123 | 82.396 | +2.727 | 1.03310 |
| KK, two-tone | 68.549 | 82.396 | -13.847 | 0.83195 |
| KK, monotone | 62.553 | 82.396 | -19.843 | 0.75918 |
| KK, paired | 76.320 | 82.396 | -6.076 | 0.92626 |
| AKo, all flops | 30.119 | 65.320 | -35.201 | 0.46110 |
| AKo, rainbow, ten or higher | 35.939 | 65.320 | -29.381 | 0.55020 |
| AKo, rainbow, nine or lower | 14.877 | 65.320 | -50.443 | 0.22776 |
| AKo, two-tone | 31.451 | 65.320 | -33.869 | 0.48149 |
| AKo, monotone | 37.447 | 65.320 | -27.873 | 0.57329 |
| AKo, paired | 23.680 | 65.320 | -41.640 | 0.36252 |
Does a shared suit matter?
Of the deals of this matchup, 24 share a suit (KK at 69.82%) and 12 do not (70.01%). The two rows differ by only 0.19 points, so suits barely change this matchup.
| Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | KK wins | Ties | AKo wins | KK equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Share a suit | 24 | 66.67 | 69.378 | 0.877 | 29.745 | 69.817 |
| No shared suit | 12 | 33.33 | 69.613 | 0.789 | 29.598 | 70.008 |
How often this matchup comes up
This page stands for 36 specific-card matchups (0.0022% of 1,624,350 ordered deals), or 72 once you count the seats both ways (0.0044%).
A worked example
With $100 from each side, the $200 pot is split on average as $139.76 for KK and $60.24 for AKo; the first side gains $39.76 per all-in and the second gives up $39.76.
Out of 1,000 deals you should see around 695 outright wins for KK, 297 for AKo, and 8 split pots.
The same matchup from the other side
AKo versus KK is this same page seen from the other hand: 30.12% for AKo, 69.88% for KK.
Keep exploring
The calculator link fills in KsKh against AdKc, a deal where the two hands share no suit. Change any card to test your own hand. The neighboring matchups below swap one of the two hands for one of similar strength.
How this was computed
Method: exact enumeration. The 36 specific deals are grouped by suit pattern, each is run against all 1,712,304 boards, and both seven-card hands are scored. Equity adds half of every tie, and flop textures are tallied over the ten flops inside each board.
Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used.
Bring your own hands to a session
Review the spots you actually play against these numbers in a Game Assessment, and leave with a one-page written plan.
Book a session