--- title: "AA vs KTs: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aa-vs-kts.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aa-vs-kts" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "AA is a big favorite over KTs before the flop: 82.13% to 17.87% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aa-vs-kqo.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aa-vs-a7s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-kts.md"] --- # AA vs KTs: preflop equity AA is a big favorite over KTs before the flop: 82.13% to 17.87% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. The exact count puts AA at 82.13% and KTs at 17.87% when the two hands see all five board cards. ## AA against KTs: the numbers **Exact preflop results for AA against KTs, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AA | 81.929 | 0.396 | 17.675 | 82.127 | | KTs | 17.675 | 0.396 | 81.929 | 17.873 | AA and KTs are a pocket pair and a suited hand, in that order. A pair against two lower cards is a lopsided matchup: the pair is ahead and the other hand has no overcard to catch. AA is a big favorite here before anyone sees a flop. Ties are 0.40% of the outcomes here; each tied board gives both hands half the pot. Ranked by equity against a random hand, AA is number 1 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AA | 33,669,000 | 163,000 | 7,264,000 | | KTs | 7,264,000 | 163,000 | 33,669,000 | Exact total: 24 deals times 1,712,304 boards. The other three counts come from the five-decimal percentages and are rounded to the nearest thousand, so read them as approximate. **AA 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AA | 4.595 | 1.221 | 5.658 | 0.218 | | KTs | 0.218 | 5.658 | 1.221 | 4.595 | 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 Split by what the flop looks like, AA peaks at 92.12% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) and bottoms out at 76.07% on monotone flops. AA stays ahead on all five textures, but the swing between them is large, so how the flop looks matters a great deal. **AA against KTs by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | AA wins | Ties | KTs wins | AA equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.138 | 81.352 | 0.159 | 18.489 | 81.432 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.771 | 91.624 | 0.988 | 7.388 | 92.118 | | Two-tone | 46.545 | 80.202 | 0.334 | 19.464 | 80.369 | | Monotone | 5.212 | 74.864 | 2.413 | 22.723 | 76.070 | | Paired | 17.334 | 85.115 | 0.007 | 14.878 | 85.118 | Rainbow flops have three suits, two-tone flops repeat one suit, monotone flops are all one suit, and paired flops repeat a rank. ## Compared with a random hand Compared with a random opponent, this matchup shifts AA from 85.20% by -3.07 points and KTs from 61.79% by -43.92 points. **AA 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AA, all flops | 82.127 | 85.204 | -3.077 | 0.96389 | | AA, rainbow, ten or higher | 81.432 | 85.204 | -3.772 | 0.95573 | | AA, rainbow, nine or lower | 92.118 | 85.204 | +6.914 | 1.08115 | | AA, two-tone | 80.369 | 85.204 | -4.835 | 0.94325 | | AA, monotone | 76.070 | 85.204 | -9.134 | 0.89280 | | AA, paired | 85.118 | 85.204 | -0.086 | 0.99899 | | KTs, all flops | 17.873 | 61.789 | -43.916 | 0.28926 | | KTs, rainbow, ten or higher | 18.568 | 61.789 | -43.221 | 0.30051 | | KTs, rainbow, nine or lower | 7.882 | 61.789 | -53.907 | 0.12756 | | KTs, two-tone | 19.631 | 61.789 | -42.158 | 0.31771 | | KTs, monotone | 23.930 | 61.789 | -37.859 | 0.38729 | | KTs, paired | 14.882 | 61.789 | -46.907 | 0.24085 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Looking only at deals where the hands share a suit, AA has 82.74%; looking only at deals where they do not, 81.52%. AA does better with a shared suit, by 1.22 points. **AA against KTs by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | AA wins | Ties | KTs wins | AA equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 12 | 50.00 | 82.517 | 0.438 | 17.045 | 82.736 | | No shared suit | 12 | 50.00 | 81.341 | 0.355 | 18.304 | 81.518 | ## How often this matchup comes up Exactly 24 specific deals fit this matchup in one seat order, which is 0.0015% of 1,624,350; both orders together give 48, or 0.0030%. ## A worked example Take a $200 pot built from $100 each. AA's equity of 82.13% is worth $164.26, a $64.26 edge, and KTs' 17.87% is worth $35.74, which is $64.26 under its stake. Over a long run, 1,000 deals split into about 819 for AA, 177 for KTs and 4 tied. ## The same matchup from the other side KTs versus AA is this same page seen from the other hand: 17.87% for KTs, 82.13% for AA. ## Keep exploring Try AsAh 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 AsAh against KdTd in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=AsAh&p2=KdTd) - [AA combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/aa.md) - [KTs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/kts.md) - [AA vs KQo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aa-vs-kqo.md) - [AA vs A7s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aa-vs-a7s.md) - [KK vs KTs](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-kts.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed The page is built from a full enumeration: 1,712,304 boards, every suit pattern of the 24 specific deals, both seven-card hands evaluated. A tie is worth half a win to each hand, and a board is tallied under each of its ten possible flops for the texture rows. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [AA vs KQo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aa-vs-kqo.md) - [AA vs A7s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aa-vs-a7s.md) - [KK vs KTs: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-kts.md)