ATo vs KTs: preflop equity

Over all 1,712,304 boards that can follow this deal, ATo finishes with 70.10% of the pot and KTs with 29.90%.

ATo

70.10%

Wins 69.13%, ties 1.92%

KTs

29.90%

Wins 28.95%, ties 1.92%

Equity counts a tie as half a win. Exact over every board.

ATo against KTs: the numbers

Exact preflop results for ATo against KTs, in percent
HandWinsTiesLosesEquity
ATo69.1341.92428.94270.096
KTs28.9421.92469.13429.904

ATo, an offsuit hand, plays KTs, a suited hand. The two hands share a rank, and the one with the better other card dominates: it wins most kicker battles when that shared rank hits.

ATo is well ahead, and KTs needs a specific kind of board to catch up. Ties are part of the picture: 1.92% of boards end in a split pot, and each side counts that as half a win.

By strength against a random hand, ATo holds place 19 of 169 and KTs holds place 22.

Boards behind the percentages: 61,642,944 counted in all
HandBoards won, aboutBoards tied, aboutBoards lost, about
ATo42,616,0001,186,00017,841,000
KTs17,841,0001,186,00042,616,000

Exact total: 36 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.

ATo against KTs read as odds
HandEquity as odds (to 1)Wins one deal inLoses one deal inPot odds needed to call (to 1)
ATo2.3441.4463.4550.427
KTs0.4273.4551.4462.344

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

Across the five flop textures ATo's equity moves by 17.37 points, from 65.29% on monotone flops to 82.66% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower). ATo stays ahead on all five textures, but the swing between them is large, so how the flop looks matters a great deal.

ATo against KTs by flop texture, in percent
FlopShare of flopsATo winsTiesKTs winsATo equity
Rainbow, ten or higher23.17767.4301.38631.18468.123
Rainbow, nine or lower7.77180.9963.31815.68682.655
Two-tone46.52767.3621.71130.92768.217
Monotone5.19263.7063.15833.13665.285
Paired17.33372.4802.21725.30373.588

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, 62.72% for ATo and 61.79% for KTs. This opponent changes them by +7.38 and -31.89 points.

ATo and KTs here compared with each against a random hand, in percent
CaseEquity hereAgainst a random handChange in pointsTimes the random-hand equity
ATo, all flops70.09662.722+7.3741.11757
ATo, rainbow, ten or higher68.12362.722+5.4011.08611
ATo, rainbow, nine or lower82.65562.722+19.9331.31780
ATo, two-tone68.21762.722+5.4951.08761
ATo, monotone65.28562.722+2.5631.04086
ATo, paired73.58862.722+10.8661.17324
KTs, all flops29.90461.789-31.8850.48397
KTs, rainbow, ten or higher31.87761.789-29.9120.51590
KTs, rainbow, nine or lower17.34561.789-44.4440.28071
KTs, two-tone31.78361.789-30.0060.51438
KTs, monotone34.71561.789-27.0740.56183
KTs, paired26.41261.789-35.3770.42745

Does a shared suit matter?

The suit split reads 71.16% for ATo with a shared suit and 69.56% without one. ATo does better with a shared suit, by 1.60 points.

ATo against KTs by suit overlap, in percent
DealsSpecific dealsShare of dealsATo winsTiesKTs winsATo equity
Share a suit1233.3370.1622.00127.83771.163
No shared suit2466.6768.6201.88529.49569.563

How often this matchup comes up

Counting specific cards, ATo against KTs appears in 36 of the 1,624,350 ordered heads-up deals (0.0022%), and in 72 when the seats are swapped too (0.0044%).

A worked example

A $100 all-in from each player makes a $200 pot, and the exact equity says ATo gets $140.20 of it on average and KTs gets $59.80.

In 1,000 deals of exactly this matchup, expect about 691 won outright by ATo, about 290 won outright by KTs and about 19 split.

The same matchup from the other side

Read it from the other side: KTs against ATo is the same matchup with the numbers swapped, so KTs holds 29.90% and ATo holds 70.10%. That address sends you back to this page.

Try AsTh 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.

How this was computed

Each figure is a complete count over boards. Take the 36 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.

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