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title: "K9o vs 22: preflop equity"
url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9o-vs-22.md"
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last_updated: "2026-10-23"
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summary: "K9o vs 22 is close to a coin flip before the flop: 48.27% to 51.73% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit."
related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9o-vs-97s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9o-vs-87s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/q9s-vs-22.md"]
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# K9o vs 22: preflop equity

K9o vs 22 is close to a coin flip before the flop: 48.27% to 51.73% 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, 22 finishes with 51.73% of the pot and K9o with 48.27%.

## K9o against 22: the numbers

**Exact preflop results for K9o against 22, in percent**

| Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| K9o | 47.834 | 0.876 | 51.290 | 48.272 |
| 22 | 51.290 | 0.876 | 47.834 | 51.728 |

The first hand is an offsuit hand; the second is a pocket pair. A pair against two higher cards is the classic race: the pair is usually a small favorite or close to even, and each overcard that pairs is a way to take the lead.

That is a slim edge: neither hand is far ahead. Ties are part of the picture: 0.88% of boards end in a split pot, and each side counts that as half a win.

The hand ranking puts K9o at 40 and 22 at 87 out of 169 starting hands.

**Boards behind the percentages: 123,285,888 counted in all**

| Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| K9o | 58,973,000 | 1,080,000 | 63,233,000 |
| 22 | 63,233,000 | 1,080,000 | 58,973,000 |

Exact total: 72 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.

**K9o against 22 read as odds**

| Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| K9o | 0.933 | 2.091 | 1.950 | 1.072 |
| 22 | 1.072 | 1.950 | 2.091 | 0.933 |

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

By flop texture, 22's equity runs from 49.21% on monotone flops up to 59.52% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower). The lead reverses on monotone flops: there K9o is the favorite even though 22 is ahead overall.

**K9o against 22 by flop texture, in percent**

| Flop | Share of flops | K9o wins | Ties | 22 wins | K9o equity |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Rainbow, ten or higher | 25.341 | 49.181 | 0.422 | 50.397 | 49.392 |
| Rainbow, nine or lower | 5.689 | 39.920 | 1.114 | 58.966 | 40.477 |
| Two-tone | 46.485 | 47.787 | 0.532 | 51.681 | 48.053 |
| Monotone | 5.151 | 49.400 | 2.775 | 47.825 | 50.787 |
| Paired | 17.334 | 48.126 | 1.818 | 50.056 | 49.035 |

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

Relative to a random opponent, K9o changes by -9.54 points (baseline 57.81%) and 22 by +1.40 points (baseline 50.33%).

**K9o and 22 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 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| K9o, all flops | 48.272 | 57.812 | -9.540 | 0.83498 |
| K9o, rainbow, ten or higher | 49.392 | 57.812 | -8.420 | 0.85436 |
| K9o, rainbow, nine or lower | 40.477 | 57.812 | -17.335 | 0.70015 |
| K9o, two-tone | 48.053 | 57.812 | -9.759 | 0.83119 |
| K9o, monotone | 50.787 | 57.812 | -7.025 | 0.87849 |
| K9o, paired | 49.035 | 57.812 | -8.777 | 0.84818 |
| 22, all flops | 51.728 | 50.334 | +1.394 | 1.02769 |
| 22, rainbow, ten or higher | 50.608 | 50.334 | +0.274 | 1.00544 |
| 22, rainbow, nine or lower | 59.523 | 50.334 | +9.189 | 1.18256 |
| 22, two-tone | 51.947 | 50.334 | +1.613 | 1.03205 |
| 22, monotone | 49.213 | 50.334 | -1.121 | 0.97773 |
| 22, paired | 50.965 | 50.334 | +0.631 | 1.01254 |

## Does a shared suit matter?

Looking only at deals where the hands share a suit, 22 has 51.65%; looking only at deals where they do not, 52.13%. 22 does better with no shared suit, by 0.48 points.

**K9o against 22 by suit overlap, in percent**

| Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | K9o wins | Ties | 22 wins | K9o equity |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Share a suit | 60 | 83.33 | 47.912 | 0.883 | 51.205 | 48.353 |
| No shared suit | 12 | 16.67 | 47.448 | 0.840 | 51.712 | 47.868 |

## How often this matchup comes up

Exactly 72 specific deals fit this matchup in one seat order, which is 0.0044% of 1,624,350; both orders together give 144, or 0.0089%.

## A worked example

Put $100 each into a $200 pot and deal every board once: 22 averages $103.46 back, ahead of its $100 by $3.46, while K9o averages $96.54, short of its $100 by $3.46.

Run 1,000 deals and the tally comes out near 513 for 22, 478 for K9o and 9 ties.

## The same matchup from the other side

The reversed view, 22 against K9o, shows 51.73% for 22 and 48.27% for K9o. It is the same count, so it redirects here.

## Keep exploring

Ks9h against 2d2c 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 Ks9h against 2d2c in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=Ks9h&p2=2d2c)
- [K9o combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/k9o.md)
- [22 combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/22.md)
- [K9o vs 97s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9o-vs-97s.md)
- [K9o vs 87s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9o-vs-87s.md)
- [Q9s vs 22](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/q9s-vs-22.md)
- [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md)

## How this was computed

Nothing here is simulated. The 72 deals of K9o against 22 fall into a few suit patterns, each dealt against all 1,712,304 boards, with both best five-card hands compared on every board. Ties give each hand half a win, and the flop rows count a board under each of its ten flops.

Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used.

## Related

- [K9o vs 97s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9o-vs-97s.md)
- [K9o vs 87s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9o-vs-87s.md)
- [Q9s vs 22: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/q9s-vs-22.md)