KK vs AJ offsuit: the numbers
| KK | AJ offsuit | |
|---|---|---|
| Wins | 71.06% | 28.61% |
| Ties | 0.33% | 0.33% |
| Equity | 71.22% | 28.78% |
Exact figures from all 1,712,304 boards for K♠ K♥ vs A♦ J♣. KK is roughly a 2.5-to-1 favorite.
Why the odds look like this: a pair against one overcard
AJ offsuit has one card higher than KK's pair, so it has three outs to pair the overcard plus backdoor straights and flushes. The pair is roughly a 2-to-1 favorite or better. When AJ offsuit wins, it is most often with two pair (38% of its wins) or one pair (30% of its wins).
How to play KK vs AJ offsuit
Against a short-stacked shove, calling with KK is easy. With AJ offsuit, remember that your hand does well against a wide range but poorly against pocket pairs bigger than your kicker.
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Preflop equity tells you how often a hand wins if all the money goes in before the flop. To decide whether a call is profitable, compare your equity with the pot odds you are getting: use the pot odds calculator. In tournaments, short stacks decide with shove-or-fold ranges, so see the push/fold chart. To test any other hands or a specific board, use the poker odds calculator.
Do suits matter?
Yes, a little. Suited hands make flushes more often, and when two hands share a suit they block each other's flushes. That is why the same two hands can differ by one or two percentage points depending on suits. The figures above are exact for the example cards shown.
How we calculated these odds
We dealt out every possible five-card board (1,712,304 of them) for the example hands and counted wins, losses and ties. There is no sampling error: the numbers are exact for those cards.