--- title: "TT vs AKo: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-ako.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-ako" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "Who is ahead, TT or AKo? TT leads 56.88% to 43.12% before the flop, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-ats.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-aqo.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/99-vs-ako.md"] --- # TT vs AKo: preflop equity Who is ahead, TT or AKo? TT leads 56.88% to 43.12% before the flop, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. If TT and AKo get all the chips in before the flop, TT owns 56.88% of the pot in the long run and AKo owns 43.12%. ## TT against AKo: the numbers **Exact preflop results for TT against AKo, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | TT | 56.681 | 0.391 | 42.928 | 56.877 | | AKo | 42.928 | 0.391 | 56.681 | 43.123 | The matchup pits a pocket pair against an offsuit hand. One hand holds a pair and the other holds two cards that both outrank it, which keeps the equity closer than most people expect. TT is ahead, but AKo is far from dead: it takes 429 of every 1,000 deals outright. The tie share is 0.39%: on those boards the pot is chopped and neither hand wins outright. Ranked by equity against a random hand, TT is number 5 of the 169 starting hands and AKo is number 12. **Boards behind the percentages: 123,285,888 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | TT | 69,880,000 | 482,000 | 52,924,000 | | AKo | 52,924,000 | 482,000 | 69,880,000 | Exact total: 72 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. **TT against AKo read as odds** | Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | TT | 1.319 | 1.764 | 2.329 | 0.758 | | AKo | 0.758 | 2.329 | 1.764 | 1.319 | 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 The flop changes the picture. TT does best on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower), at 74.39%, and worst on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better, at 50.01%. TT stays ahead on all five textures, but the swing between them is large, so how the flop looks matters a great deal. **TT against AKo by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | TT wins | Ties | AKo wins | TT equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.260 | 49.940 | 0.143 | 49.917 | 50.012 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.771 | 73.882 | 1.024 | 25.094 | 74.394 | | Two-tone | 46.485 | 55.546 | 0.349 | 44.105 | 55.721 | | Monotone | 5.151 | 51.877 | 1.724 | 46.399 | 52.739 | | Paired | 17.333 | 62.488 | 0.156 | 37.356 | 62.566 | 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 Relative to a random opponent, TT changes by -18.13 points (baseline 75.01%) and AKo by -22.20 points (baseline 65.32%). **TT and AKo 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | TT, all flops | 56.877 | 75.012 | -18.135 | 0.75824 | | TT, rainbow, ten or higher | 50.012 | 75.012 | -25.000 | 0.66672 | | TT, rainbow, nine or lower | 74.394 | 75.012 | -0.618 | 0.99176 | | TT, two-tone | 55.721 | 75.012 | -19.291 | 0.74283 | | TT, monotone | 52.739 | 75.012 | -22.273 | 0.70307 | | TT, paired | 62.566 | 75.012 | -12.446 | 0.83408 | | AKo, all flops | 43.123 | 65.320 | -22.197 | 0.66018 | | AKo, rainbow, ten or higher | 49.988 | 65.320 | -15.332 | 0.76528 | | AKo, rainbow, nine or lower | 25.606 | 65.320 | -39.714 | 0.39201 | | AKo, two-tone | 44.279 | 65.320 | -21.041 | 0.67788 | | AKo, monotone | 47.261 | 65.320 | -18.059 | 0.72353 | | AKo, paired | 37.434 | 65.320 | -27.886 | 0.57309 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Looking only at deals where the hands share a suit, TT has 56.80%; looking only at deals where they do not, 57.28%. TT does better with no shared suit, by 0.48 points. **TT against AKo by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | TT wins | Ties | AKo wins | TT equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 60 | 83.33 | 56.594 | 0.407 | 42.999 | 56.797 | | No shared suit | 12 | 16.67 | 57.120 | 0.311 | 42.569 | 57.276 | ## How often this matchup comes up How often does it happen? 72 of the 1,624,350 ordered deals (0.0044%) are TT against AKo, and 144 (0.0089%) if either hand may sit in either seat. ## A worked example Take a $200 pot built from $100 each. TT's equity of 56.88% is worth $113.76, a $13.76 edge, and AKo's 43.12% is worth $86.24, which is $13.76 under its stake. Think in thousands: about 567 of 1,000 go to TT, about 429 go to AKo, and about 4 are chopped. ## The same matchup from the other side AKo versus TT is this same page seen from the other hand: 43.12% for AKo, 56.88% for TT. ## Keep exploring Try TsTh against AdKc 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 TsTh against AdKc in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=TsTh&p2=AdKc) - [TT combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/tt.md) - [AKo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/ako.md) - [TT vs ATs](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-ats.md) - [TT vs AQo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-aqo.md) - [99 vs AKo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/99-vs-ako.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed Method: exact enumeration. The 72 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 - [TT vs ATs: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-ats.md) - [TT vs AQo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-aqo.md) - [99 vs AKo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/99-vs-ako.md)