--- title: "ATo vs KTs: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ato-vs-kts.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ato-vs-kts" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "ATo is a big favorite over KTs before the flop: 70.10% to 29.90% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ato-vs-kqo.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ato-vs-a7s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjs-vs-kts.md"] --- # ATo vs KTs: preflop equity ATo is a big favorite over KTs before the flop: 70.10% to 29.90% 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, ATo finishes with 70.10% of the pot and KTs with 29.90%. ## ATo against KTs: the numbers **Exact preflop results for ATo against KTs, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | ATo | 69.134 | 1.924 | 28.942 | 70.096 | | KTs | 28.942 | 1.924 | 69.134 | 29.904 | 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** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | ATo | 42,616,000 | 1,186,000 | 17,841,000 | | KTs | 17,841,000 | 1,186,000 | 42,616,000 | 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** | Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | ATo | 2.344 | 1.446 | 3.455 | 0.427 | | KTs | 0.427 | 3.455 | 1.446 | 2.344 | 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** | Flop | Share of flops | ATo wins | Ties | KTs wins | ATo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.177 | 67.430 | 1.386 | 31.184 | 68.123 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.771 | 80.996 | 3.318 | 15.686 | 82.655 | | Two-tone | 46.527 | 67.362 | 1.711 | 30.927 | 68.217 | | Monotone | 5.192 | 63.706 | 3.158 | 33.136 | 65.285 | | Paired | 17.333 | 72.480 | 2.217 | 25.303 | 73.588 | 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** | Case | Equity here | Against a random hand | Change in points | Times the random-hand equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | ATo, all flops | 70.096 | 62.722 | +7.374 | 1.11757 | | ATo, rainbow, ten or higher | 68.123 | 62.722 | +5.401 | 1.08611 | | ATo, rainbow, nine or lower | 82.655 | 62.722 | +19.933 | 1.31780 | | ATo, two-tone | 68.217 | 62.722 | +5.495 | 1.08761 | | ATo, monotone | 65.285 | 62.722 | +2.563 | 1.04086 | | ATo, paired | 73.588 | 62.722 | +10.866 | 1.17324 | | KTs, all flops | 29.904 | 61.789 | -31.885 | 0.48397 | | KTs, rainbow, ten or higher | 31.877 | 61.789 | -29.912 | 0.51590 | | KTs, rainbow, nine or lower | 17.345 | 61.789 | -44.444 | 0.28071 | | KTs, two-tone | 31.783 | 61.789 | -30.006 | 0.51438 | | KTs, monotone | 34.715 | 61.789 | -27.074 | 0.56183 | | KTs, paired | 26.412 | 61.789 | -35.377 | 0.42745 | ## 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** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | ATo wins | Ties | KTs wins | ATo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 12 | 33.33 | 70.162 | 2.001 | 27.837 | 71.163 | | No shared suit | 24 | 66.67 | 68.620 | 1.885 | 29.495 | 69.563 | ## 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. ## Keep exploring 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. - [Open AsTh against KdTd in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=AsTh&p2=KdTd) - [ATo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/ato.md) - [KTs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/kts.md) - [ATo vs KQo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ato-vs-kqo.md) - [ATo vs A7s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ato-vs-a7s.md) - [KJs vs KTs](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjs-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 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. ## Related - [ATo vs KQo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ato-vs-kqo.md) - [ATo vs A7s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ato-vs-a7s.md) - [KJs vs KTs: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjs-vs-kts.md)