--- title: "KQo vs A2s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-a2s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-a2s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "A2s is a big favorite over KQo before the flop: 60.02% to 39.98% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-qto.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-44.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a7s-vs-a2s.md"] --- # KQo vs A2s: preflop equity A2s is a big favorite over KQo before the flop: 60.02% to 39.98% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Before any board card is dealt, A2s holds 60.02% equity against KQo, which leaves KQo with 39.98%. ## KQo against A2s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for KQo against A2s, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KQo | 39.713 | 0.527 | 59.760 | 39.976 | | A2s | 59.760 | 0.527 | 39.713 | 60.024 | The matchup pits an offsuit hand against a suited hand. The two hands share no rank, which makes this a pure matchup of card strength, straight chances and flush chances. A2s is ahead, but KQo is far from dead: it takes 397 of every 1,000 deals outright. 0.53% of boards are ties, so the equity of each hand is its win rate plus half of that. Among the 169 starting hands, KQo is number 23 and A2s is number 46 by strength against a random hand. **Boards behind the percentages: 82,190,592 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KQo | 32,640,000 | 433,000 | 49,117,000 | | A2s | 49,117,000 | 433,000 | 32,640,000 | Exact total: 48 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. **KQo against A2s read as odds** | Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KQo | 0.666 | 2.518 | 1.673 | 1.502 | | A2s | 1.502 | 1.673 | 2.518 | 0.666 | 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 Split by what the flop looks like, A2s peaks at 77.79% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) and bottoms out at 52.35% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better. A2s stays ahead on all five textures, but the swing between them is large, so how the flop looks matters a great deal. **KQo against A2s by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | KQo wins | Ties | A2s wins | KQo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.988 | 47.592 | 0.122 | 52.286 | 47.653 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.042 | 21.545 | 1.337 | 77.118 | 22.213 | | Two-tone | 46.667 | 40.110 | 0.361 | 59.529 | 40.290 | | Monotone | 5.212 | 42.148 | 2.431 | 55.421 | 43.364 | | Paired | 17.091 | 34.313 | 0.636 | 65.051 | 34.631 | 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 Compared with a random opponent, this matchup shifts KQo from 61.46% by -21.48 points and A2s from 57.38% by +2.64 points. **KQo and A2s 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KQo, all flops | 39.976 | 61.456 | -21.480 | 0.65048 | | KQo, rainbow, ten or higher | 47.653 | 61.456 | -13.803 | 0.77540 | | KQo, rainbow, nine or lower | 22.213 | 61.456 | -39.243 | 0.36145 | | KQo, two-tone | 40.290 | 61.456 | -21.166 | 0.65559 | | KQo, monotone | 43.364 | 61.456 | -18.092 | 0.70561 | | KQo, paired | 34.631 | 61.456 | -26.825 | 0.56351 | | A2s, all flops | 60.024 | 57.379 | +2.645 | 1.04610 | | A2s, rainbow, ten or higher | 52.347 | 57.379 | -5.032 | 0.91230 | | A2s, rainbow, nine or lower | 77.787 | 57.379 | +20.408 | 1.35567 | | A2s, two-tone | 59.710 | 57.379 | +2.331 | 1.04062 | | A2s, monotone | 56.636 | 57.379 | -0.743 | 0.98705 | | A2s, paired | 65.369 | 57.379 | +7.990 | 1.13925 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Does suit overlap move the numbers? A2s has 59.69% when the hands share a suit and 60.36% when they do not. A2s does better with no shared suit, by 0.67 points. **KQo against A2s by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | KQo wins | Ties | A2s wins | KQo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 24 | 50.00 | 40.031 | 0.568 | 59.401 | 40.315 | | No shared suit | 24 | 50.00 | 39.395 | 0.487 | 60.118 | 39.638 | ## How often this matchup comes up KQo against A2s is made up of 48 specific-card matchups in one seat order, 0.0030% of the 1,624,350 ordered deals, and 96 counting both seat orders, 0.0059%. ## A worked example Worked example: both players commit $100, so $200 sits in the middle. Over every board, A2s' average share is $120.04 (a gain of $20.04) and KQo's is $79.96 (a loss of $20.04). Out of 1,000 deals you should see around 598 outright wins for A2s, 397 for KQo, and 5 split pots. ## The same matchup from the other side If you came looking for A2s against KQo, the numbers are the same with the hands swapped: 60.02% and 39.98%. ## Keep exploring Try KsQh against Ad2d 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 KsQh against Ad2d in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=KsQh&p2=Ad2d) - [KQo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/kqo.md) - [A2s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/a2s.md) - [KQo vs QTo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-qto.md) - [KQo vs 44](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-44.md) - [A7s vs A2s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a7s-vs-a2s.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed Nothing here is simulated. The 48 deals of KQo against A2s 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 - [KQo vs QTo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-qto.md) - [KQo vs 44: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-44.md) - [A7s vs A2s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a7s-vs-a2s.md)