Ace King

The matchup In this fixed preflop all-in matchup, the pocket nines win more often. With Ah Kd against 9s 9c, the nines win 55.526% of boards and ace-king has about 44.3% equity, including half the ties. Ace-king is the classic “big cards” hand and pocket nines is the classic middle pair: one player holds Ah Kd (ace-king offsuit) and the other holds 9s 9c (pocket nines). Both hands go all-in before the flop: no other players are in the hand, no rake is taken, and no further betting is possible. Every figure below applies to exactly these four cards. ...

The matchup Pocket kings are favorites against ace-king in a preflop all-in. The figures below apply to the exact hole cards shown in this comparison. The setup: one player holds Ks Kd (pocket kings), the other holds Ah Kc (ace-king offsuit). No other players are in the hand, and both hands go all-in before the flop. The result The numbers below come from an exhaustive enumeration, not a simulation. With the four known hole cards removed from a standard 52-card deck, all C(48,5) = 1,712,304 possible five-card boards were dealt out and each one was evaluated with a standard best-five-card evaluator. Verified on 2026-11-01. ...