Ace-king offsuit has 65.3% against a random hand, the 12th best of the 169 starting hands. Below are its odds against every hand and on the flop, and what the charts do with it from each seat.
AKo ranks 12th of the 169 starting hands by against a random hand, in the top 7% of hand classes. Classes have different numbers of card combinations; this is not a deal-frequency percentile. First in at 100bb, the charts say: raise from every seat.
Against one random hand, AKo has and AKs has 67.04%: 1.72 percentage points less for AKo.
against one to eight random opponents
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━ AKo: 65.32%
┄ AKs: 67.04%
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Equity by number of random opponents
Opponents
AKo
AKs
1
65.32%
67.04%
2
48.36%
50.93%
3
38.37%
41.39%
4
32.26%
35.23%
5
27.90%
30.92%
6
24.38%
27.64%
7
21.75%
24.78%
8
19.20%
22.59%
The one-opponent values are exact. Two to eight opponents use 100,000 seeded deals per point; small differences can be sampling noise. All opponents have random hands. These curves do not measure profit or account for position, betting or opponents folding.
AKs versus AKo: what suited changes
Against a random hand, AKs has 67.04% and AKo has 65.32%: a 1.72 percentage-point advantage for AKs. This is showdown equity, not a prediction of profit.
Exact flop probabilities for suited and offsuit starting hands
All 19,600 flops are counted. A flush draw has four cards of one suit, uses at least one hole card, and has not already made a flush or better. The flush column excludes straight flushes.
AKo on the flop
The best five-card hand AKo holds after the flop, over all 19,600 flops. Pairs on the board count.
High card53.6%
One pair40.4%
Two pair4.0%
Three of a kind1.6%
Straight0.3%
Full house0.1%
Four of a kind0.0%
Draws on the flop, counted only when the hand has not already made that straight or flush or better.
Flush draw2.2%
Gutshot11.3%
How to play AKo
Two high cards win most often by pairing one of them. Against a hand with the same top card and a better kicker, they win far less often.
First in
Raise from every seat.
Facing a raise
3-bet from every seat.
Facing a 3-bet
4-bet from the button and the big blind; call 70% and 4-bet 30% from under the gun; call 65% and 4-bet 35% from middle position; 4-bet 60% and call 40% from the cutoff.
From the six-handed 100bb charts. A percentage means the chart mixes actions with this hand.
Six-handed cash charts at 100 big blinds. A spot marked mix plays AKo more than one way.
Where these numbers come from
Heads-up equity comes from the same preflop table the odds calculator uses, which averages each pair of hands over every board and suit pattern. Against a random hand, your own two cards make some hands less likely: holding an ace leaves three aces for the other player, so each hand counts once for every way it can still be dealt. Equity against several players is sampled with a fixed seed, so it can move by a few tenths of a point from the exact figure. The flop figures count every one of the 19,600 flops.
