--- title: "99 vs KTo: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/99-vs-kto.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/99-vs-kto" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "Who is ahead, 99 or KTo? 99 leads 55.39% to 44.61% before the flop, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/99-vs-qts.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/99-vs-a4s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/88-vs-kto.md"] --- # 99 vs KTo: preflop equity Who is ahead, 99 or KTo? 99 leads 55.39% to 44.61% before the flop, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Over all 1,712,304 boards that can follow this deal, 99 finishes with 55.39% of the pot and KTo with 44.61%. ## 99 against KTo: the numbers **Exact preflop results for 99 against KTo, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 99 | 55.199 | 0.383 | 44.418 | 55.391 | | KTo | 44.418 | 0.383 | 55.199 | 44.609 | The matchup pits a pocket pair against an offsuit 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. 99 is ahead, but KTo is far from dead: it takes 444 of every 1,000 deals outright. About 0.38% of boards chop the pot, which is why equity sits slightly above the win figure for both hands. By strength against a random hand, 99 holds place 6 of 169 and KTo holds place 33. **Boards behind the percentages: 123,285,888 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 99 | 68,053,000 | 472,000 | 54,761,000 | | KTo | 54,761,000 | 472,000 | 68,053,000 | 72 specific deals times 1,712,304 boards gives the exact total. The won, tied and lost counts are approximations from the five-decimal percentages, rounded to the nearest thousand. **99 against KTo read as odds** | Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 99 | 1.242 | 1.812 | 2.251 | 0.805 | | KTo | 0.805 | 2.251 | 1.812 | 1.242 | The last column is the break-even price: the pot odds a call needs to offer, as a ratio of pot to call. ## Who is ahead on which flops If you know the kind of flop that came, the numbers shift: 99 holds 80.27% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) and 47.94% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better. The overall edge for 99 hides rainbow flops topped by a ten or better, where KTo comes out in front. **99 against KTo by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | 99 wins | Ties | KTo wins | 99 equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 24.717 | 47.846 | 0.183 | 51.971 | 47.938 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 6.314 | 79.807 | 0.919 | 19.274 | 80.266 | | Two-tone | 46.485 | 54.012 | 0.319 | 45.669 | 54.172 | | Monotone | 5.151 | 50.713 | 1.703 | 47.584 | 51.565 | | Paired | 17.333 | 61.235 | 0.257 | 38.508 | 61.364 | 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 Relative to a random opponent, 99 changes by -16.67 points (baseline 72.06%) and KTo by -15.13 points (baseline 59.74%). **99 and KTo 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 99, all flops | 55.391 | 72.057 | -16.666 | 0.76871 | | 99, rainbow, ten or higher | 47.938 | 72.057 | -24.119 | 0.66528 | | 99, rainbow, nine or lower | 80.266 | 72.057 | +8.209 | 1.11392 | | 99, two-tone | 54.172 | 72.057 | -17.885 | 0.75179 | | 99, monotone | 51.565 | 72.057 | -20.492 | 0.71561 | | 99, paired | 61.364 | 72.057 | -10.693 | 0.85160 | | KTo, all flops | 44.609 | 59.739 | -15.130 | 0.74673 | | KTo, rainbow, ten or higher | 52.062 | 59.739 | -7.677 | 0.87149 | | KTo, rainbow, nine or lower | 19.734 | 59.739 | -40.005 | 0.33034 | | KTo, two-tone | 45.828 | 59.739 | -13.911 | 0.76714 | | KTo, monotone | 48.435 | 59.739 | -11.304 | 0.81078 | | KTo, paired | 38.636 | 59.739 | -21.103 | 0.64675 | ## Does a shared suit matter? When the hands share a suit, 99 holds 55.31%; when they do not, it holds 55.81%. 99 does better with no shared suit, by 0.50 points. **99 against KTo by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | 99 wins | Ties | KTo wins | 99 equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 60 | 83.33 | 55.107 | 0.399 | 44.494 | 55.307 | | No shared suit | 12 | 16.67 | 55.659 | 0.304 | 44.037 | 55.811 | ## How often this matchup comes up Out of 1,624,350 ways to deal two seats two cards each, 72 are 99 in one seat and KTo in the other (0.0044%); with the seats swapped too, 144 (0.0089%). ## A worked example A $100 all-in from each player makes a $200 pot, and the exact equity says 99 gets $110.78 of it on average and KTo gets $89.22. Out of 1,000 deals you should see around 552 outright wins for 99, 444 for KTo, and 4 split pots. ## The same matchup from the other side Swap the hands and you get KTo with 44.61% against 99 with 55.39%. We keep one page per matchup, with the better-ranked hand first. ## Keep exploring 9s9h against KdTc is a ready-made deal for the calculator, with no suit in common between the hands. The neighboring matchups below replace one hand with another of similar strength. - [Open 9s9h against KdTc in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=9s9h&p2=KdTc) - [99 combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/99.md) - [KTo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/kto.md) - [99 vs QTs](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/99-vs-qts.md) - [99 vs A4s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/99-vs-a4s.md) - [88 vs KTo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/88-vs-kto.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed Each figure is a complete count over boards. Take the 72 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 - [99 vs QTs: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/99-vs-qts.md) - [99 vs A4s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/99-vs-a4s.md) - [88 vs KTo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/88-vs-kto.md)