JJ
67.72%
Wins 67.51%, ties 0.41%
KTs
32.28%
Wins 32.08%, ties 0.41%
JJ against KTs: the numbers
| Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| JJ | 67.514 | 0.405 | 32.081 | 67.717 |
| KTs | 32.081 | 0.405 | 67.514 | 32.283 |
The first hand is a pocket pair; the second is a suited hand. The pair is ahead of one card and behind the other, so the board decides how that plays out.
JJ is well ahead, and KTs needs a specific kind of board to catch up. A split pot comes up on 0.41% of boards, so the wins and the equity differ by half of that.
Among the 169 starting hands, JJ is number 4 and KTs is number 22 by strength against a random hand.
| Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about |
|---|---|---|---|
| JJ | 27,745,000 | 166,000 | 13,184,000 |
| KTs | 13,184,000 | 166,000 | 27,745,000 |
24 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.
| Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| JJ | 2.098 | 1.481 | 3.117 | 0.477 |
| KTs | 0.477 | 3.117 | 1.481 | 2.098 |
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
JJ prefers low rainbow flops (nine high or lower), where it holds 81.63%, and likes monotone flops least, where it holds 62.95%. JJ stays ahead on all five textures, but the swing between them is large, so how the flop looks matters a great deal.
| Flop | Share of flops | JJ wins | Ties | KTs wins | JJ equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.138 | 64.774 | 0.140 | 35.086 | 64.844 |
| Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.771 | 81.155 | 0.946 | 17.899 | 81.628 |
| Two-tone | 46.545 | 65.654 | 0.311 | 34.035 | 65.810 |
| Monotone | 5.212 | 61.752 | 2.396 | 35.852 | 62.950 |
| Paired | 17.334 | 71.784 | 0.172 | 28.044 | 71.870 |
Read the flop types this way: rainbow has three suits, two-tone has two cards of one suit, monotone has three, and paired repeats a rank.
Compared with a random hand
Each hand has a baseline against a random hand: 77.47% for JJ, 61.79% for KTs. Here the change is -9.75 and -29.51 points.
| Case | Equity here | Against a random hand | Change in points | Times the random-hand equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| JJ, all flops | 67.717 | 77.469 | -9.752 | 0.87412 |
| JJ, rainbow, ten or higher | 64.844 | 77.469 | -12.625 | 0.83703 |
| JJ, rainbow, nine or lower | 81.628 | 77.469 | +4.159 | 1.05369 |
| JJ, two-tone | 65.810 | 77.469 | -11.659 | 0.84950 |
| JJ, monotone | 62.950 | 77.469 | -14.519 | 0.81258 |
| JJ, paired | 71.870 | 77.469 | -5.599 | 0.92773 |
| KTs, all flops | 32.283 | 61.789 | -29.506 | 0.52247 |
| KTs, rainbow, ten or higher | 35.156 | 61.789 | -26.633 | 0.56897 |
| KTs, rainbow, nine or lower | 18.372 | 61.789 | -43.417 | 0.29733 |
| KTs, two-tone | 34.190 | 61.789 | -27.599 | 0.55333 |
| KTs, monotone | 37.050 | 61.789 | -24.739 | 0.59962 |
| KTs, paired | 28.130 | 61.789 | -33.659 | 0.45526 |
Does a shared suit matter?
Of the deals of this matchup, 12 share a suit (JJ at 67.95%) and 12 do not (67.48%). JJ does better with a shared suit, by 0.47 points.
| Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | JJ wins | Ties | KTs wins | JJ equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Share a suit | 12 | 50.00 | 67.731 | 0.446 | 31.823 | 67.954 |
| No shared suit | 12 | 50.00 | 67.298 | 0.365 | 32.337 | 67.480 |
How often this matchup comes up
You will meet this exact matchup 0.0030% of the time in a random heads-up deal: 48 of 1,624,350, counting either seat order.
A worked example
To see what the equity is worth, imagine $100 each in a $200 pot. JJ is worth $135.44 on average (+$35.44); KTs is worth $64.56 (-$35.44).
In 1,000 deals of exactly this matchup, expect about 675 won outright by JJ, about 321 won outright by KTs and about 4 split.
The same matchup from the other side
KTs against JJ adds nothing new: it is 32.28% for KTs and 67.72% for JJ, the same figures reversed.
Keep exploring
Try JsJh 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
This is an exact count with no sampling. For the 24 ways to deal one JJ and one KTs without reusing a card, grouped by suit pattern, every one of the 1,712,304 possible boards is dealt and both seven-card hands are compared. A tie counts as half a win in the equity column, and each board is counted once under each of its ten three-card flops.
Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used.
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