How often do pocket aces beat ace-king?
Pocket aces have 87.9% equity against ace-king suited preflop — the most one-sided common matchup, because the aces block the ace-king's best outs.
Probability
87.86%
about 1 time in 1.1
Ad Kd equity
12.14%
Exact. Every one of the 1,712,304 possible boards was evaluated.
Ace-king is 'dominated': the aces already hold the ace it hopes to pair, so its only real routes are kings, straights and flushes. Even suited, ace-king wins under one time in eight. Offsuit it is worse still.
This is the matchup behind the advice to avoid stacking off with ace-king against a very tight range: when the range is mostly aces and kings, ace-king is either dominated or a small underdog.
- As Ah wins87.23%
- Tie1.26%
- Ad Kd wins11.51%
- As Ah equity87.86%win + tie ÷ 2
- Boards enumerated1,712,304
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