--- title: "KK vs AQs: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-aqs.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-aqs" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "KK is a big favorite over AQs before the flop: 68.15% to 31.85% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-ajs.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-ako.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-aqs.md"] --- # KK vs AQs: preflop equity KK is a big favorite over AQs before the flop: 68.15% to 31.85% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Averaged over every possible board, KK is ahead of AQs by 36.30 points of equity, 68.15% to 31.85%. ## KK against AQs: the numbers **Exact preflop results for KK against AQs, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KK | 67.938 | 0.433 | 31.629 | 68.154 | | AQs | 31.629 | 0.433 | 67.938 | 31.846 | KK is a pocket pair and AQs is a suited hand. One of the other hand's cards outranks the pair and one is below it, which makes this a closer race than a pair against two small cards. That is a clear edge, 68.15% to 31.85%, but AQs still wins often enough that one hand proves nothing. The tie share is 0.43%: on those boards the pot is chopped and neither hand wins outright. KK ranks number 2 of 169 starting hands, and AQs ranks number 10, by equity 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 | 27,919,000 | 178,000 | 12,998,000 | | AQs | 12,998,000 | 178,000 | 27,919,000 | The board total is exact, 24 deals at 1,712,304 boards each. Won, tied and lost counts are rounded to the nearest thousand from the five-decimal percentages. **KK against AQs 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 | 2.140 | 1.472 | 3.162 | 0.467 | | AQs | 0.467 | 3.162 | 1.472 | 2.140 | In the last column, a pot-to-call ratio at or above the figure makes a call break even or better at this equity. ## Who is ahead on which flops Low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) are the best for KK (82.07%); monotone flops are the worst (63.40%). 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 AQs by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | KK wins | Ties | AQs wins | KK equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.138 | 65.348 | 0.123 | 34.529 | 65.409 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.771 | 81.426 | 1.297 | 17.277 | 82.074 | | Two-tone | 46.545 | 66.109 | 0.377 | 33.514 | 66.298 | | Monotone | 5.212 | 62.181 | 2.437 | 35.382 | 63.399 | | Paired | 17.334 | 71.989 | 0.010 | 28.001 | 71.994 | 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 Start from the random-hand figures, 82.40% for KK and 66.21% for AQs. This opponent changes them by -14.25 and -34.36 points. **KK and AQs 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 | 68.154 | 82.396 | -14.242 | 0.82715 | | KK, rainbow, ten or higher | 65.409 | 82.396 | -16.987 | 0.79384 | | KK, rainbow, nine or lower | 82.074 | 82.396 | -0.322 | 0.99609 | | KK, two-tone | 66.298 | 82.396 | -16.098 | 0.80463 | | KK, monotone | 63.399 | 82.396 | -18.997 | 0.76944 | | KK, paired | 71.994 | 82.396 | -10.402 | 0.87376 | | AQs, all flops | 31.846 | 66.209 | -34.363 | 0.48099 | | AQs, rainbow, ten or higher | 34.591 | 66.209 | -31.618 | 0.52245 | | AQs, rainbow, nine or lower | 17.926 | 66.209 | -48.283 | 0.27075 | | AQs, two-tone | 33.702 | 66.209 | -32.507 | 0.50902 | | AQs, monotone | 36.601 | 66.209 | -29.608 | 0.55281 | | AQs, paired | 28.006 | 66.209 | -38.203 | 0.42299 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Does suit overlap move the numbers? KK has 68.43% when the hands share a suit and 67.88% when they do not. KK does better with a shared suit, by 0.55 points. **KK against AQs by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | KK wins | Ties | AQs wins | KK equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 12 | 50.00 | 68.193 | 0.474 | 31.333 | 68.430 | | No shared suit | 12 | 50.00 | 67.683 | 0.393 | 31.924 | 67.879 | ## How often this matchup comes up Out of 1,624,350 ways to deal two seats two cards each, 24 are KK in one seat and AQs in the other (0.0015%); with the seats swapped too, 48 (0.0030%). ## A worked example A $100 all-in from each player makes a $200 pot, and the exact equity says KK gets $136.30 of it on average and AQs gets $63.70. Out of 1,000 deals you should see around 680 outright wins for KK, 316 for AQs, and 4 split pots. ## The same matchup from the other side Read it from the other side: AQs against KK is the same matchup with the numbers swapped, so AQs holds 31.85% and KK holds 68.15%. That address sends you back to this page. ## Keep exploring Open the calculator with KsKh against AdQd already entered, a deal with no shared suit, and change any card to try your own hand. The matchups after it each swap one hand for a nearby one in the ranking. - [Open KsKh against AdQd in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=KsKh&p2=AdQd) - [KK combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/kk.md) - [AQs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/aqs.md) - [KK vs AJs](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-ajs.md) - [KK vs AKo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-ako.md) - [QQ vs AQs](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-aqs.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed Nothing here is simulated. The 24 deals of KK against AQs 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 AJs: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-ajs.md) - [KK vs AKo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-ako.md) - [QQ vs AQs: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-aqs.md)