KQo
40.22%
Wins 40.00%, ties 0.45%
A6s
59.78%
Wins 59.55%, ties 0.45%
KQo against A6s: the numbers
| Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KQo | 39.995 | 0.449 | 59.556 | 40.220 |
| A6s | 59.556 | 0.449 | 39.995 | 59.780 |
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.
A6s is ahead, but KQo is far from dead: it takes 400 of every 1,000 deals outright. Split pots make up 0.45% of the boards, and both equity figures count them as half a win each.
Among the 169 starting hands, KQo is number 23 and A6s is number 31 by strength against a random hand.
| Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about |
|---|---|---|---|
| KQo | 32,872,000 | 369,000 | 48,949,000 |
| A6s | 48,949,000 | 369,000 | 32,872,000 |
48 specific deals times 1,712,304 boards gives the exact total. The won, tied and lost counts are approximations from the five-decimal percentages, rounded to the nearest thousand.
| Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KQo | 0.673 | 2.500 | 1.679 | 1.486 |
| A6s | 1.486 | 1.679 | 2.500 | 0.673 |
The final column gives the least the pot must offer for each unit called for a call to break even at this equity.
Who is ahead on which flops
Across the five flop textures A6s' equity moves by 25.59 points, from 52.04% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better to 77.63% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower). A6s 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 | KQo wins | Ties | A6s wins | KQo equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.988 | 47.917 | 0.080 | 52.003 | 47.957 |
| Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.042 | 21.861 | 1.024 | 77.115 | 22.373 |
| Two-tone | 46.667 | 40.404 | 0.274 | 59.322 | 40.541 |
| Monotone | 5.212 | 42.365 | 2.376 | 55.259 | 43.553 |
| Paired | 17.091 | 34.509 | 0.620 | 64.871 | 34.819 |
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
How much does the opponent matter? Compared with its random-hand 61.46%, KQo changes by -21.24 points, and A6s, from 59.91%, by -0.13.
| Case | Equity here | Against a random hand | Change in points | Times the random-hand equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KQo, all flops | 40.220 | 61.456 | -21.236 | 0.65445 |
| KQo, rainbow, ten or higher | 47.957 | 61.456 | -13.499 | 0.78035 |
| KQo, rainbow, nine or lower | 22.373 | 61.456 | -39.083 | 0.36405 |
| KQo, two-tone | 40.541 | 61.456 | -20.915 | 0.65968 |
| KQo, monotone | 43.553 | 61.456 | -17.903 | 0.70869 |
| KQo, paired | 34.819 | 61.456 | -26.637 | 0.56657 |
| A6s, all flops | 59.780 | 59.906 | -0.126 | 0.99790 |
| A6s, rainbow, ten or higher | 52.043 | 59.906 | -7.863 | 0.86874 |
| A6s, rainbow, nine or lower | 77.627 | 59.906 | +17.721 | 1.29581 |
| A6s, two-tone | 59.459 | 59.906 | -0.447 | 0.99254 |
| A6s, monotone | 56.447 | 59.906 | -3.459 | 0.94226 |
| A6s, paired | 65.181 | 59.906 | +5.275 | 1.08805 |
Does a shared suit matter?
Does suit overlap move the numbers? A6s has 59.44% when the hands share a suit and 60.13% when they do not. A6s does better with no shared suit, by 0.69 points.
| Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | KQo wins | Ties | A6s wins | KQo equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Share a suit | 24 | 50.00 | 40.320 | 0.489 | 59.191 | 40.565 |
| No shared suit | 24 | 50.00 | 39.670 | 0.409 | 59.921 | 39.874 |
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 A6s in the other (0.0030%); with the seats swapped too, 96 (0.0059%).
A worked example
A $100 all-in from each player makes a $200 pot, and the exact equity says A6s gets $119.56 of it on average and KQo gets $80.44.
Scaled to 1,000 deals, that is roughly 596 wins for A6s, 400 for KQo and 4 chopped pots.
The same matchup from the other side
One page covers both views. From A6s' side the equity is 59.78%, and from KQo's side it is 40.22%.
Keep exploring
Open the calculator with KsQh against Ad6d 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.
How this was computed
Nothing here is simulated. The 48 deals of KQo against A6s 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.
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