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Queens vs ace-king: the odds

Should I call an all-in with queens against ace-king?

Hand Cards Wins Equity
Pocket queens Q♥ Q♦ 53.6% 53.8%
Ace-king suited A♠ K♠ 46.0% 46.2%
Split pot 0.39%

All-in before the flop, with five cards to come. Equity is each hand's average share of the pot — outright wins plus half of the split pots. Computed by enumerating all 1,712,304 possible boards with this site's own engine, so these are exact figures rather than a simulation.

Why the number looks like that

The same hand from the other side, which is the view that matters when someone has jammed and you hold the pair: you are a small favourite, and folding a favourite is how tournaments are lost slowly.

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