--- title: "77 vs KTs: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/77-vs-kts.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/77-vs-kts" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "77 vs KTs is close to a coin flip before the flop: 51.32% to 48.68% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/77-vs-kqo.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/77-vs-a7s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-kts.md"] --- # 77 vs KTs: preflop equity 77 vs KTs is close to a coin flip before the flop: 51.32% to 48.68% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Over all 1,712,304 boards that can follow this deal, 77 finishes with 51.32% of the pot and KTs with 48.68%. ## 77 against KTs: the numbers **Exact preflop results for 77 against KTs, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 77 | 51.107 | 0.435 | 48.458 | 51.324 | | KTs | 48.458 | 0.435 | 51.107 | 48.676 | The first hand is a pocket pair; the second is a suited hand. This is a pair against two overcards, a matchup that stays close because the other hand only needs one of its ranks to appear. With only 2.64 points between them, the board decides this matchup far more than the cards in hand. The tie share is 0.44%: on those boards the pot is chopped and neither hand wins outright. Ranked by equity against a random hand, 77 is number 9 of the 169 starting hands and KTs is number 22. **Boards behind the percentages: 41,095,296 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 77 | 21,003,000 | 179,000 | 19,914,000 | | KTs | 19,914,000 | 179,000 | 21,003,000 | The total is exact: 24 specific deals times 1,712,304 boards. The three counts are approximate, worked out from the percentages to five decimals and rounded to the nearest thousand. **77 against KTs read as odds** | Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 77 | 1.054 | 1.957 | 2.064 | 0.948 | | KTs | 0.948 | 2.064 | 1.957 | 1.054 | In the last column, a pot-to-call ratio at or above the figure makes a call break even or better at this equity. ## Who is ahead on which flops Low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) are the best for 77 (77.81%); rainbow flops topped by a ten or better are the worst (44.84%). On rainbow flops topped by a ten or better and two-tone flops the numbers flip and KTs is the one ahead. **77 against KTs by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | 77 wins | Ties | KTs wins | 77 equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 24.595 | 44.724 | 0.225 | 55.051 | 44.837 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 6.314 | 77.544 | 0.541 | 21.915 | 77.814 | | Two-tone | 46.545 | 49.295 | 0.271 | 50.434 | 49.430 | | Monotone | 5.212 | 49.572 | 2.408 | 48.020 | 50.776 | | Paired | 17.334 | 55.862 | 0.539 | 43.599 | 56.131 | A rainbow flop shows three suits, a two-tone flop repeats one suit, a monotone flop is a single suit, and a paired flop repeats a rank. ## Compared with a random hand Against one random hand instead, 77 holds 66.24% and KTs holds 61.79%. Facing each other changes that by -14.92 points for 77 and -13.11 points for KTs. **77 and KTs here compared with each against a random hand, in percent** | Case | Equity here | Against a random hand | Change in points | Times the random-hand equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 77, all flops | 51.324 | 66.236 | -14.912 | 0.77487 | | 77, rainbow, ten or higher | 44.837 | 66.236 | -21.399 | 0.67693 | | 77, rainbow, nine or lower | 77.814 | 66.236 | +11.578 | 1.17480 | | 77, two-tone | 49.430 | 66.236 | -16.806 | 0.74627 | | 77, monotone | 50.776 | 66.236 | -15.460 | 0.76659 | | 77, paired | 56.131 | 66.236 | -10.105 | 0.84744 | | KTs, all flops | 48.676 | 61.789 | -13.113 | 0.78778 | | KTs, rainbow, ten or higher | 55.163 | 61.789 | -6.626 | 0.89276 | | KTs, rainbow, nine or lower | 22.186 | 61.789 | -39.603 | 0.35906 | | KTs, two-tone | 50.570 | 61.789 | -11.219 | 0.81843 | | KTs, monotone | 49.224 | 61.789 | -12.565 | 0.79665 | | KTs, paired | 43.869 | 61.789 | -17.920 | 0.70998 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Does suit overlap move the numbers? 77 has 51.48% when the hands share a suit and 51.17% when they do not. 77 does better with a shared suit, by 0.31 points. **77 against KTs by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | 77 wins | Ties | KTs wins | 77 equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 12 | 50.00 | 51.242 | 0.478 | 48.280 | 51.481 | | No shared suit | 12 | 50.00 | 50.972 | 0.392 | 48.636 | 51.168 | ## How often this matchup comes up This page stands for 24 specific-card matchups (0.0015% of 1,624,350 ordered deals), or 48 once you count the seats both ways (0.0030%). ## A worked example Put $100 each into a $200 pot and deal every board once: 77 averages $102.64 back, ahead of its $100 by $2.64, while KTs averages $97.36, short of its $100 by $2.64. Out of 1,000 deals you should see around 511 outright wins for 77, 485 for KTs, and 4 split pots. ## The same matchup from the other side Read it from the other side: KTs against 77 is the same matchup with the numbers swapped, so KTs holds 48.68% and 77 holds 51.32%. That address sends you back to this page. ## Keep exploring Try 7s7h against KdTd in the calculator: the hands share no suit, and every card can be changed. The links after it are the closest matchups in the ranking. - [Open 7s7h against KdTd in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=7s7h&p2=KdTd) - [77 combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/77.md) - [KTs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/kts.md) - [77 vs KQo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/77-vs-kqo.md) - [77 vs A7s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/77-vs-a7s.md) - [AQs vs KTs](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-kts.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed Each figure is a complete count over boards. Take the 24 specific deals, group them by suit pattern, deal all 1,712,304 boards against each, and compare the two seven-card hands. Equity counts a tie as half a win; the flop rows use every one of a board's ten flops. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [77 vs KQo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/77-vs-kqo.md) - [77 vs A7s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/77-vs-a7s.md) - [AQs vs KTs: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-kts.md)