--- title: "KK vs AQo: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-aqo.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-aqo" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "KK is a big favorite over AQo before the flop: 71.79% to 28.21% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-ajo.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-kqs.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-aqo.md"] --- # KK vs AQo: preflop equity KK is a big favorite over AQo before the flop: 71.79% to 28.21% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Dealt all in against each other, KK takes 71.79% of the pot on average and AQo takes the other 28.21%. ## KK against AQo: the numbers **Exact preflop results for KK against AQo, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KK | 71.578 | 0.422 | 28.000 | 71.789 | | AQo | 28.000 | 0.422 | 71.578 | 28.211 | One side is a pocket pair, the other is an offsuit hand. The pair sits between the other hand's two cards: one is higher and one is lower, so the pair is exposed to the higher card. A lead of 43.58 points is large but not decisive: AQo still takes about 280 of every 1,000 deals. A split pot comes up on 0.42% of boards, so the wins and the equity differ by half of that. Among the 169 starting hands, KK is number 2 and AQo is number 14 by strength against a random hand. **Boards behind the percentages: 123,285,888 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KK | 88,246,000 | 520,000 | 34,520,000 | | AQo | 34,520,000 | 520,000 | 88,246,000 | Exact total: 72 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. **KK against AQo 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 | 2.545 | 1.397 | 3.571 | 0.393 | | AQo | 0.393 | 3.571 | 1.397 | 2.545 | 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 Split by what the flop looks like, KK peaks at 84.96% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) and bottoms out at 67.03% 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. **KK against AQo by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | KK wins | Ties | AQo wins | KK equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.260 | 67.123 | 0.129 | 32.748 | 67.188 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.771 | 84.286 | 1.356 | 14.358 | 84.964 | | Two-tone | 46.485 | 70.915 | 0.417 | 28.668 | 71.124 | | Monotone | 5.151 | 66.145 | 1.773 | 32.082 | 67.032 | | Paired | 17.333 | 75.251 | 0.010 | 24.739 | 75.256 | 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 Each hand has a baseline against a random hand: 82.40% for KK, 64.43% for AQo. Here the change is -10.61 and -36.22 points. **KK and AQo 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 | 71.789 | 82.396 | -10.607 | 0.87127 | | KK, rainbow, ten or higher | 67.188 | 82.396 | -15.208 | 0.81543 | | KK, rainbow, nine or lower | 84.964 | 82.396 | +2.568 | 1.03117 | | KK, two-tone | 71.124 | 82.396 | -11.272 | 0.86320 | | KK, monotone | 67.032 | 82.396 | -15.364 | 0.81353 | | KK, paired | 75.256 | 82.396 | -7.140 | 0.91335 | | AQo, all flops | 28.211 | 64.432 | -36.221 | 0.43784 | | AQo, rainbow, ten or higher | 32.812 | 64.432 | -31.620 | 0.50925 | | AQo, rainbow, nine or lower | 15.036 | 64.432 | -49.396 | 0.23336 | | AQo, two-tone | 28.876 | 64.432 | -35.556 | 0.44816 | | AQo, monotone | 32.968 | 64.432 | -31.464 | 0.51167 | | AQo, paired | 24.744 | 64.432 | -39.688 | 0.38403 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Does suit overlap move the numbers? KK has 71.83% when the hands share a suit and 71.61% when they do not. The two rows differ by only 0.22 points, so suits barely change this matchup. **KK against AQo by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | KK wins | Ties | AQo wins | KK equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 60 | 83.33 | 71.606 | 0.438 | 27.956 | 71.825 | | No shared suit | 12 | 16.67 | 71.438 | 0.342 | 28.220 | 71.609 | ## How often this matchup comes up You will meet this exact matchup 0.0089% of the time in a random heads-up deal: 144 of 1,624,350, counting either seat order. ## A worked example To see what the equity is worth, imagine $100 each in a $200 pot. KK is worth $143.58 on average (+$43.58); AQo is worth $56.42 (-$43.58). Run 1,000 deals and the tally comes out near 716 for KK, 280 for AQo and 4 ties. ## The same matchup from the other side The reversed view, AQo against KK, shows 28.21% for AQo and 71.79% for KK. It is the same count, so it redirects here. ## Keep exploring Try KsKh against AdQc 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 AdQc in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=KsKh&p2=AdQc) - [KK combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/kk.md) - [AQo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/aqo.md) - [KK vs AJo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-ajo.md) - [KK vs KQs](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-kqs.md) - [QQ vs AQo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-aqo.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed Each figure is a complete count over boards. Take the 72 specific deals, group them by suit pattern, deal all 1,712,304 boards against each, and compare the two seven-card hands. Equity counts a tie as half a win; the flop rows use every one of a board's ten flops. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [KK vs AJo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-ajo.md) - [KK vs KQs: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-kqs.md) - [QQ vs AQo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-aqo.md)