KK
65.89%
Wins 65.48%, ties 0.83%
AKs
34.11%
Wins 33.69%, ties 0.83%
KK against AKs: the numbers
| Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KK | 65.481 | 0.825 | 33.694 | 65.894 |
| AKs | 33.694 | 0.825 | 65.481 | 34.106 |
One side is a pocket pair, the other is a suited hand. The non-pair hand shares a rank with the pair, so two of its outs for pairing are blocked by the pair itself.
That is a clear edge, 65.89% to 34.11%, but AKs still wins often enough that one hand proves nothing. The tie share is 0.83%: on those boards the pot is chopped and neither hand wins outright.
In the ranking of all 169 starting hands, KK is number 2 and AKs is number 8.
| Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about |
|---|---|---|---|
| KK | 13,455,000 | 170,000 | 6,923,000 |
| AKs | 6,923,000 | 170,000 | 13,455,000 |
Exact total: 12 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.
| Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KK | 1.932 | 1.527 | 2.968 | 0.518 |
| AKs | 0.518 | 2.968 | 1.527 | 1.932 |
The last column is the break-even price: the pot odds a call needs to offer, as a ratio of pot to call.
Who is ahead on which flops
If you know the kind of flop that came, the numbers shift: KK holds 81.81% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) and 61.33% on monotone flops. 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 | AKs wins | KK equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.011 | 61.292 | 0.838 | 37.870 | 61.711 |
| Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.771 | 81.150 | 1.324 | 17.526 | 81.812 |
| Two-tone | 46.236 | 62.953 | 0.873 | 36.174 | 63.390 |
| Monotone | 5.151 | 60.306 | 2.054 | 37.640 | 61.333 |
| Paired | 17.831 | 72.110 | 0.109 | 27.781 | 72.164 |
A rainbow flop shows three suits, a two-tone flop repeats one suit, a monotone flop is a single suit, and a paired flop repeats a rank.
Compared with a random hand
Relative to a random opponent, KK changes by -16.51 points (baseline 82.40%) and AKs by -32.94 points (baseline 67.05%).
| Case | Equity here | Against a random hand | Change in points | Times the random-hand equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KK, all flops | 65.894 | 82.396 | -16.502 | 0.79972 |
| KK, rainbow, ten or higher | 61.711 | 82.396 | -20.685 | 0.74896 |
| KK, rainbow, nine or lower | 81.812 | 82.396 | -0.584 | 0.99291 |
| KK, two-tone | 63.390 | 82.396 | -19.006 | 0.76933 |
| KK, monotone | 61.333 | 82.396 | -21.063 | 0.74437 |
| KK, paired | 72.164 | 82.396 | -10.232 | 0.87582 |
| AKs, all flops | 34.106 | 67.045 | -32.939 | 0.50870 |
| AKs, rainbow, ten or higher | 38.289 | 67.045 | -28.756 | 0.57109 |
| AKs, rainbow, nine or lower | 18.188 | 67.045 | -48.857 | 0.27128 |
| AKs, two-tone | 36.610 | 67.045 | -30.435 | 0.54605 |
| AKs, monotone | 38.667 | 67.045 | -28.378 | 0.57673 |
| AKs, paired | 27.836 | 67.045 | -39.209 | 0.41518 |
Does a shared suit matter?
Every legal deal of KK against AKs leaves the hands with no suit in common, so the suit split does not apply here.
| Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | KK wins | Ties | AKs wins | KK equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Share a suit | 0 | 0.00 | not possible | not possible | not possible | not possible |
| No shared suit | 12 | 100.00 | 65.481 | 0.825 | 33.694 | 65.894 |
How often this matchup comes up
You will meet this exact matchup 0.0015% of the time in a random heads-up deal: 24 of 1,624,350, counting either seat order.
A worked example
Take a $200 pot built from $100 each. KK's equity of 65.89% is worth $131.78, a $31.78 edge, and AKs' 34.11% is worth $68.22, which is $31.78 under its stake.
Over a long run, 1,000 deals split into about 655 for KK, 337 for AKs and 8 tied.
The same matchup from the other side
AKs against KK adds nothing new: it is 34.11% for AKs and 65.89% for KK, the same figures reversed.
Keep exploring
KsKh against AdKd 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.
How this was computed
This is an exact count with no sampling. For the 12 ways to deal one KK and one AKs without reusing a card, grouped by suit pattern, every one of the 1,712,304 possible boards is dealt and both seven-card hands are compared. A tie counts as half a win in the equity column, and each board is counted once under each of its ten three-card flops.
Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used.
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