--- title: "AJs vs KTs: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajs-vs-kts.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajs-vs-kts" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "AJs is a big favorite over KTs before the flop: 61.78% to 38.22% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajs-vs-kqo.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajs-vs-a7s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ako-vs-kts.md"] --- # AJs vs KTs: preflop equity AJs is a big favorite over KTs before the flop: 61.78% to 38.22% 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, AJs finishes with 61.78% of the pot and KTs with 38.22%. ## AJs against KTs: the numbers **Exact preflop results for AJs against KTs, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AJs | 61.524 | 0.507 | 37.969 | 61.778 | | KTs | 37.969 | 0.507 | 61.524 | 38.222 | Both hands are suited hands: AJs and KTs. With no overlap in ranks, every card that pairs one hand is a card that does not pair the other. AJs is ahead, but KTs is far from dead: it takes 380 of every 1,000 deals outright. Ties are part of the picture: 0.51% of boards end in a split pot, and each side counts that as half a win. For context, AJs sits at number 11 of 169 starting hands and KTs at number 22 when each is run against a random hand. **Boards behind the percentages: 27,396,864 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AJs | 16,856,000 | 139,000 | 10,402,000 | | KTs | 10,402,000 | 139,000 | 16,856,000 | Exact total: 16 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. **AJs 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AJs | 1.616 | 1.625 | 2.634 | 0.619 | | KTs | 0.619 | 2.634 | 1.625 | 1.616 | The last column is the smallest pot odds, written as a pot-to-call ratio, at which a call breaks even with this equity. ## Who is ahead on which flops The flop changes the picture. AJs does best on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower), at 73.86%, and worst on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better, at 57.87%. AJs stays ahead on all five textures, but the swing between them is large, so how the flop looks matters a great deal. **AJs against KTs by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | AJs wins | Ties | KTs wins | AJs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.138 | 57.816 | 0.115 | 42.069 | 57.873 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.771 | 73.415 | 0.893 | 25.692 | 73.861 | | Two-tone | 46.727 | 60.760 | 0.271 | 38.969 | 60.895 | | Monotone | 5.273 | 56.879 | 3.413 | 39.708 | 58.585 | | Paired | 17.091 | 64.663 | 0.608 | 34.729 | 64.967 | 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 Start from the random-hand figures, 65.39% for AJs and 61.79% for KTs. This opponent changes them by -3.61 and -23.57 points. **AJs 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AJs, all flops | 61.778 | 65.393 | -3.615 | 0.94472 | | AJs, rainbow, ten or higher | 57.873 | 65.393 | -7.520 | 0.88500 | | AJs, rainbow, nine or lower | 73.861 | 65.393 | +8.468 | 1.12949 | | AJs, two-tone | 60.895 | 65.393 | -4.498 | 0.93122 | | AJs, monotone | 58.585 | 65.393 | -6.808 | 0.89589 | | AJs, paired | 64.967 | 65.393 | -0.426 | 0.99349 | | KTs, all flops | 38.222 | 61.789 | -23.567 | 0.61859 | | KTs, rainbow, ten or higher | 42.127 | 61.789 | -19.662 | 0.68179 | | KTs, rainbow, nine or lower | 26.139 | 61.789 | -35.650 | 0.42304 | | KTs, two-tone | 39.105 | 61.789 | -22.684 | 0.63288 | | KTs, monotone | 41.415 | 61.789 | -20.374 | 0.67026 | | KTs, paired | 35.033 | 61.789 | -26.756 | 0.56698 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Two kinds of deal exist here. In 4 of them the hands share a suit and AJs holds 64.12%. In 12 they do not, and it holds 61.00%. AJs does better with a shared suit, by 3.12 points. **AJs against KTs by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | AJs wins | Ties | KTs wins | AJs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 4 | 25.00 | 63.823 | 0.584 | 35.593 | 64.115 | | No shared suit | 12 | 75.00 | 60.758 | 0.481 | 38.761 | 60.998 | ## How often this matchup comes up AJs against KTs is made up of 16 specific-card matchups in one seat order, 0.0010% of the 1,624,350 ordered deals, and 32 counting both seat orders, 0.0020%. ## A worked example To see what the equity is worth, imagine $100 each in a $200 pot. AJs is worth $123.56 on average (+$23.56); KTs is worth $76.44 (-$23.56). A thousand deals look like this: AJs takes 615, KTs takes 380, 5 are ties. ## The same matchup from the other side The reversed view, KTs against AJs, shows 38.22% for KTs and 61.78% for AJs. It is the same count, so it redirects here. ## Keep exploring AsJs against KhTh 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 AsJs against KhTh in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=AsJs&p2=KhTh) - [AJs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/ajs.md) - [KTs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/kts.md) - [AJs vs KQo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajs-vs-kqo.md) - [AJs vs A7s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajs-vs-a7s.md) - [AKo vs KTs](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ako-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 16 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 - [AJs vs KQo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajs-vs-kqo.md) - [AJs vs A7s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajs-vs-a7s.md) - [AKo vs KTs: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ako-vs-kts.md)