AQs preflop: ace-queen suited

Ace-queen suited has 66.2% against a random hand, the 10th 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.

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Quick answers

Is AQs a good hand?

AQs ranks 10th of the 169 starting hands by against a random hand, in the top 6% 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.

What is AQs's equity against AA?

12.5% all in before the flop. AQs vs AA in full

How often does AQs hit the flop?

AQs makes one pair or better on 47.3% of flops, counting pairs on the board, and two pair or better on 6.9%.

AQs against common hands

for AQs all in before the flop. The line marks 50%; linked hands have their own matchup page.
  • AA12.5%
  • KK31.8%
  • QQ34.3%
  • JJ45.9%
  • TT45.9%
  • 7748.1%
  • 2250.2%
  • AKs28.7%
  • AKo29.9%
  • AQo52.5%
  • AJo75.0%
  • KQs71.4%
  • KQo75.6%
  • JTs62.2%
  • T9s62.2%
  • 72o69.5%

AQs against every hand

Each cell is AQs's in percent against that hand, all in before the flop. Blue cells are hands AQs is ahead of, red cells hands it is behind.

Under 20%20–35%35–45%45–55%55–65%65–80%80% and up

AQs equity against each of the 169 hands, in percent
AA 13AKs 29AQs 50AJs 71ATs 71A9s 71A8s 70A7s 71A6s 70A5s 69A4s 70A3s 70A2s 71
AKo 30KK 32KQs 71KJs 62KTs 61K9s 63K8s 63K7s 63K6s 63K5s 63K4s 64K3s 64K2s 64
AQo 52KQo 76QQ 34QJs 70QTs 70Q9s 72Q8s 71Q7s 72Q6s 72Q5s 73Q4s 73Q3s 73Q2s 74
AJo 75KJo 65QJo 74JJ 46JTs 62J9s 63J8s 64J7s 65J6s 66J5s 66J4s 66J3s 67J2s 67
ATo 75KTo 64QTo 74JTo 65TT 46T9s 62T8s 63T7s 64T6s 65T5s 66T4s 66T3s 66T2s 67
A9o 75K9o 66Q9o 76J9o 66T9o 6599 4798s 6297s 6396s 6395s 6594s 6693s 6692s 66
A8o 75K8o 66Q8o 75J8o 67T8o 6698o 6588 4787s 6286s 6285s 6384s 6583s 6682s 66
A7o 75K7o 66Q7o 77J7o 68T7o 6797o 6687o 6577 4876s 6175s 6374s 6473s 6572s 66
A6o 75K6o 66Q6o 76J6o 69T6o 6896o 6686o 6576o 6466 4865s 6164s 6263s 6462s 65
A5o 73K5o 66Q5o 77J5o 69T5o 6995o 6885o 6675o 6665o 6455 4854s 6153s 6352s 64
A4o 74K4o 67Q4o 77J4o 69T4o 6994o 6984o 6874o 6764o 6554o 6444 4943s 6342s 64
A3o 74K3o 67Q3o 78J3o 70T3o 7093o 6983o 6973o 6863o 6753o 6643o 6633 5032s 65
A2o 75K2o 67Q2o 78J2o 70T2o 7092o 6982o 6972o 7062o 6852o 6742o 6732o 6822 50

Cells with a matchup page are links.

Compare starting hands

Against one random hand, AQs has and AQo has 64.43%: 1.78 percentage points more for AQs.

against one to eight random opponents

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0%25%50%75%100%12345678OpponentsAQs, 1 opponent: 66.21%AQs, 2 opponents: 49.48%AQs, 3 opponents: 39.88%AQs, 4 opponents: 33.65%AQs, 5 opponents: 29.50%AQs, 6 opponents: 26.08%AQs, 7 opponents: 23.31%AQs, 8 opponents: 21.05%AQo, 1 opponent: 64.43%AQo, 2 opponents: 47.01%AQo, 3 opponents: 36.77%AQo, 4 opponents: 30.60%AQo, 5 opponents: 25.97%AQo, 6 opponents: 22.59%AQo, 7 opponents: 19.64%AQo, 8 opponents: 17.45%
  • AQs: 66.21%
  • AQo: 64.43%
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Equity by number of random opponents
OpponentsAQsAQo
166.21%64.43%
249.48%47.01%
339.88%36.77%
433.65%30.60%
529.50%25.97%
626.08%22.59%
723.31%19.64%
821.05%17.45%

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.

AQs versus AQo: what suited changes

Against a random hand, AQs has 66.21% and AQo has 64.43%: a 1.78 percentage-point advantage for AQs. This is showdown equity, not a prediction of profit.

Exact flop probabilities for suited and offsuit starting hands
Hand
AQs10.94%0.84%
AQo2.24%0.00%

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.

AQs on the flop

The best five-card hand AQs holds after the flop, over all 19,600 flops. Pairs on the board count.
  • High card52.7%
  • One pair40.4%
  • Two pair4.0%
  • Three of a kind1.6%
  • Straight0.3%
  • Flush0.8%
  • Full house0.1%
  • Four of a kind0.0%
  • Straight flush0.0%
Draws on the flop, counted only when the hand has not already made that straight or flush or better.
  • Flush draw10.9%
  • Open-ended straight draw0.6%
  • Gutshot11.2%

How to play AQs

A suited ace makes the best possible flush when it flushes, and its ace makes the other player's strong aces less likely.

First in

Raise from every seat.

Facing a raise

3-bet from every seat.

Facing a 3-bet

Call from under the gun, middle position and the big blind; 4-bet 55% and call 45% from the cutoff; call 75% and 4-bet 25% from the button.

From the six-handed 100bb charts. A percentage means the chart mixes actions with this hand.

What each chart does with AQs

Six-handed cash charts at 100 big blinds. A spot marked mix plays AQs 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.

All 169 starting hands