KQs vs AJo
King-queen suited against ace-jack offsuit, all in before the flop. Two unpaired hands, one ace between them, one flush draw between them.
The numbers
KQs
king-queen suited
43.7%
equity
AJo
ace-jack offsuit
56.3%
equity
| Outcome | Share of boards |
|---|---|
| KQs wins | 43.4% |
| AJo wins | 56.1% |
| Split pot | 0.5% |
Exact, not simulated. KQs means king-queen suited and AJo means ace-jack offsuit: 48 legal ways to deal the two hands, and every one of the 1,712,304 possible five-card boards dealt for each — 82,190,592 board-and-hand combinations in total, each one scored by the same evaluator the calculator uses. Combinations that are the same hand with the suits renamed were counted once and weighted by how many they stand for: 3 distinct suit patterns stand in for all 48, which is the same answer for 16 times less work.
Why it comes out this way
Neither hand has made anything yet, so this is decided by which cards pair up first. Ace-jack holds the highest card of the four, the ace; king-queen holds the king and the queen, and its king beats every card ace-jack holds except the ace.
Ace-jack wins 56.1% and king-queen wins 43.4%, and the pot is split 0.5% of the time.
King-queen is the suited hand, which is most of what keeps this close: it can make a flush with three cards of its suit on the board, and a flush beats any pair either hand can make. Offsuit, the same ranks win 40.0%.
Open it in the calculator
The link below deals one typical version of this matchup — Kof spadesQof spades against Aof heartsJof diamonds — into the calculator, with both hands set and the board empty. Add community cards one at a time to watch the equity move, or change a card to see how much the suits are worth.