--- title: "KQo vs A5s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-a5s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-a5s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "A5s is a big favorite over KQo before the flop: 60.28% to 39.72% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-a6s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-kto.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a7s-vs-a5s.md"] --- # KQo vs A5s: preflop equity A5s is a big favorite over KQo before the flop: 60.28% to 39.72% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Dealt all in against each other, A5s takes 60.28% of the pot on average and KQo takes the other 39.72%. ## KQo against A5s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for KQo against A5s, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KQo | 39.477 | 0.492 | 60.031 | 39.723 | | A5s | 60.031 | 0.492 | 39.477 | 60.277 | The first hand is an offsuit hand; the second is a suited hand. The two hands share no rank, which makes this a pure matchup of card strength, straight chances and flush chances. A5s is ahead, but KQo is far from dead: it takes 395 of every 1,000 deals outright. Ties are part of the picture: 0.49% of boards end in a split pot, and each side counts that as half a win. Among the 169 starting hands, KQo is number 23 and A5s is number 30 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 | 32,446,000 | 404,000 | 49,340,000 | | A5s | 49,340,000 | 404,000 | 32,446,000 | 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 A5s 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 | 0.659 | 2.533 | 1.666 | 1.517 | | A5s | 1.517 | 1.666 | 2.533 | 0.659 | 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 Across the five flop textures A5s' equity moves by 25.85 points, from 52.59% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better to 78.44% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower). A5s stays ahead on all five textures, but the swing between them is large, so how the flop looks matters a great deal. **KQo against A5s by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | KQo wins | Ties | A5s wins | KQo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.988 | 47.352 | 0.122 | 52.526 | 47.413 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.042 | 20.999 | 1.124 | 77.877 | 21.561 | | Two-tone | 46.667 | 39.831 | 0.325 | 59.844 | 39.994 | | Monotone | 5.212 | 41.956 | 2.413 | 55.631 | 43.162 | | Paired | 17.091 | 34.313 | 0.624 | 65.063 | 34.625 | 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 Start from the random-hand figures, 61.46% for KQo and 59.92% for A5s. This opponent changes them by -21.74 and +0.36 points. **KQo and A5s 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 | 39.723 | 61.456 | -21.733 | 0.64636 | | KQo, rainbow, ten or higher | 47.413 | 61.456 | -14.043 | 0.77150 | | KQo, rainbow, nine or lower | 21.561 | 61.456 | -39.895 | 0.35084 | | KQo, two-tone | 39.994 | 61.456 | -21.462 | 0.65077 | | KQo, monotone | 43.162 | 61.456 | -18.294 | 0.70232 | | KQo, paired | 34.625 | 61.456 | -26.831 | 0.56341 | | A5s, all flops | 60.277 | 59.923 | +0.354 | 1.00591 | | A5s, rainbow, ten or higher | 52.587 | 59.923 | -7.336 | 0.87758 | | A5s, rainbow, nine or lower | 78.439 | 59.923 | +18.516 | 1.30900 | | A5s, two-tone | 60.006 | 59.923 | +0.083 | 1.00139 | | A5s, monotone | 56.838 | 59.923 | -3.085 | 0.94852 | | A5s, paired | 65.375 | 59.923 | +5.452 | 1.09098 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Split by suits, the deals give A5s 59.95% when the hands overlap in a suit and 60.61% when they do not. A5s does better with no shared suit, by 0.66 points. **KQo against A5s by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | KQo wins | Ties | A5s wins | KQo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 24 | 50.00 | 39.788 | 0.533 | 59.679 | 40.055 | | No shared suit | 24 | 50.00 | 39.165 | 0.452 | 60.383 | 39.391 | ## How often this matchup comes up Out of 1,624,350 ways to deal two seats two cards each, 48 are KQo in one seat and A5s in the other (0.0030%); with the seats swapped too, 96 (0.0059%). ## A worked example To see what the equity is worth, imagine $100 each in a $200 pot. A5s is worth $120.56 on average (+$20.56); KQo is worth $79.44 (-$20.56). Run 1,000 deals and the tally comes out near 600 for A5s, 395 for KQo and 5 ties. ## The same matchup from the other side Swap the hands and you get A5s with 60.28% against KQo with 39.72%. We keep one page per matchup, with the better-ranked hand first. ## Keep exploring KsQh against Ad5d 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. - [Open KsQh against Ad5d in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=KsQh&p2=Ad5d) - [KQo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/kqo.md) - [A5s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/a5s.md) - [KQo vs A6s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-a6s.md) - [KQo vs KTo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-kto.md) - [A7s vs A5s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a7s-vs-a5s.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed The figures are counted, not estimated: 1,712,304 boards for every suit pattern of the 48 specific deals, with both seven-card hands compared each time. Equity gives half a win for a tie. For the flop rows, a board is counted once under each of the ten flops inside it. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [KQo vs A6s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-a6s.md) - [KQo vs KTo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-kto.md) - [A7s vs A5s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a7s-vs-a5s.md)