--- title: "KTs vs A6s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-a6s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-a6s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "Who is ahead, KTs or A6s? A6s leads 56.60% to 43.40% before the flop, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-kto.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-qts.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-a6s.md"] --- # KTs vs A6s: preflop equity Who is ahead, KTs or A6s? A6s leads 56.60% to 43.40% before the flop, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. The exact count puts A6s at 56.60% and KTs at 43.40% when the two hands see all five board cards. ## KTs against A6s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for KTs against A6s, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KTs | 43.156 | 0.484 | 56.360 | 43.398 | | A6s | 56.360 | 0.484 | 43.156 | 56.602 | Both hands are suited hands: KTs and A6s. The two hands share no rank, which makes this a pure matchup of card strength, straight chances and flush chances. A 13.20 point lead is real, and KTs still takes about 431 of every 1,000 deals outright. A split pot comes up on 0.48% of boards, so the wins and the equity differ by half of that. The hand ranking puts KTs at 22 and A6s at 31 out of 169 starting hands. **Boards behind the percentages: 27,396,864 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KTs | 11,823,000 | 133,000 | 15,441,000 | | A6s | 15,441,000 | 133,000 | 11,823,000 | The board total is exact, 16 deals at 1,712,304 boards each. Won, tied and lost counts are rounded to the nearest thousand from the five-decimal percentages. **KTs against A6s read as odds** | Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KTs | 0.767 | 2.317 | 1.774 | 1.304 | | A6s | 1.304 | 1.774 | 2.317 | 0.767 | 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 A6s prefers low rainbow flops (nine high or lower), where it holds 73.72%, and likes rainbow flops topped by a ten or better least, where it holds 50.52%. A6s stays ahead on all five textures, but the swing between them is large, so how the flop looks matters a great deal. **KTs against A6s by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | KTs wins | Ties | A6s wins | KTs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.867 | 49.421 | 0.126 | 50.453 | 49.484 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.042 | 25.899 | 0.762 | 73.339 | 26.280 | | Two-tone | 46.727 | 44.507 | 0.243 | 55.250 | 44.629 | | Monotone | 5.273 | 44.188 | 3.401 | 52.411 | 45.889 | | Paired | 17.091 | 37.508 | 0.628 | 61.864 | 37.822 | Read the flop types this way: rainbow has three suits, two-tone has two cards of one suit, monotone has three, and paired repeats a rank. ## Compared with a random hand Each hand has a baseline against a random hand: 61.79% for KTs, 59.91% for A6s. Here the change is -18.39 and -3.31 points. **KTs and A6s 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KTs, all flops | 43.398 | 61.789 | -18.391 | 0.70236 | | KTs, rainbow, ten or higher | 49.484 | 61.789 | -12.305 | 0.80085 | | KTs, rainbow, nine or lower | 26.280 | 61.789 | -35.509 | 0.42532 | | KTs, two-tone | 44.629 | 61.789 | -17.160 | 0.72228 | | KTs, monotone | 45.889 | 61.789 | -15.900 | 0.74267 | | KTs, paired | 37.822 | 61.789 | -23.967 | 0.61212 | | A6s, all flops | 56.602 | 59.906 | -3.304 | 0.94485 | | A6s, rainbow, ten or higher | 50.516 | 59.906 | -9.390 | 0.84325 | | A6s, rainbow, nine or lower | 73.720 | 59.906 | +13.814 | 1.23059 | | A6s, two-tone | 55.371 | 59.906 | -4.535 | 0.92430 | | A6s, monotone | 54.111 | 59.906 | -5.795 | 0.90327 | | A6s, paired | 62.178 | 59.906 | +2.272 | 1.03793 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Of the deals of this matchup, 4 share a suit (A6s at 58.46%) and 12 do not (55.98%). A6s does better with a shared suit, by 2.48 points. **KTs against A6s by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | KTs wins | Ties | A6s wins | KTs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 4 | 25.00 | 41.264 | 0.561 | 58.175 | 41.545 | | No shared suit | 12 | 75.00 | 43.787 | 0.458 | 55.755 | 44.016 | ## How often this matchup comes up Exactly 16 specific deals fit this matchup in one seat order, which is 0.0010% of 1,624,350; both orders together give 32, or 0.0020%. ## A worked example Say each player puts $100 in before the flop, making a $200 pot. On average A6s takes back $113.20 of it, which is $13.20 more than it put in, and KTs takes back $86.80, $13.20 less than it put in. Out of 1,000 deals you should see around 564 outright wins for A6s, 431 for KTs, and 5 split pots. ## The same matchup from the other side One page covers both views. From A6s' side the equity is 56.60%, and from KTs' side it is 43.40%. ## Keep exploring The calculator link fills in KsTs against Ah6h, a deal where the two hands share no suit. Change any card to test your own hand. The neighboring matchups below swap one of the two hands for one of similar strength. - [Open KsTs against Ah6h in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=KsTs&p2=Ah6h) - [KTs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/kts.md) - [A6s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/a6s.md) - [KTs vs KTo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-kto.md) - [KTs vs QTs](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-qts.md) - [KQo vs A6s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-a6s.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed Method: exact enumeration. The 16 specific deals are grouped by suit pattern, each is run against all 1,712,304 boards, and both seven-card hands are scored. Equity adds half of every tie, and flop textures are tallied over the ten flops inside each board. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [KTs vs KTo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-kto.md) - [KTs vs QTs: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-qts.md) - [KQo vs A6s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-a6s.md)