--- title: "K9o vs 44: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9o-vs-44.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9o-vs-44" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "K9o vs 44 is close to a coin flip before the flop: 47.05% to 52.95% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9o-vs-j9s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9o-vs-jto.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/q9s-vs-44.md"] --- # K9o vs 44: preflop equity K9o vs 44 is close to a coin flip before the flop: 47.05% to 52.95% 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, 44 finishes with 52.95% of the pot and K9o with 47.05%. ## K9o against 44: the numbers **Exact preflop results for K9o against 44, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | K9o | 46.722 | 0.665 | 52.613 | 47.054 | | 44 | 52.613 | 0.665 | 46.722 | 52.946 | We compare an offsuit hand with a pocket pair. One hand holds a pair and the other holds two cards that both outrank it, which keeps the equity closer than most people expect. That is a slim edge: neither hand is far ahead. Ties are 0.67% of the outcomes here; each tied board gives both hands half the pot. Ranked by equity against a random hand, K9o is number 40 of the 169 starting hands and 44 is number 48. **Boards behind the percentages: 123,285,888 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | K9o | 57,602,000 | 820,000 | 64,864,000 | | 44 | 64,864,000 | 820,000 | 57,602,000 | The board total is exact, 72 deals at 1,712,304 boards each. Won, tied and lost counts are rounded to the nearest thousand from the five-decimal percentages. **K9o against 44 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 | 0.889 | 2.140 | 1.901 | 1.125 | | 44 | 1.125 | 1.901 | 2.140 | 0.889 | 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 Split by what the flop looks like, 44 peaks at 60.84% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) and bottoms out at 50.16% on monotone flops. 44 stays ahead on all five textures. **K9o against 44 by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | K9o wins | Ties | 44 wins | K9o equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 25.341 | 48.717 | 0.347 | 50.936 | 48.891 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 5.689 | 38.702 | 0.917 | 60.381 | 39.161 | | Two-tone | 46.485 | 47.185 | 0.437 | 52.378 | 47.403 | | Monotone | 5.151 | 48.796 | 2.089 | 49.115 | 49.841 | | Paired | 17.334 | 44.579 | 1.236 | 54.185 | 45.197 | Flop types: rainbow means three different suits, two-tone means one suit twice, monotone means one suit three times, paired means a repeated rank. ## Compared with a random hand Each hand has a baseline against a random hand: 57.81% for K9o, 57.02% for 44. Here the change is -10.76 and -4.07 points. **K9o and 44 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 | 47.054 | 57.812 | -10.758 | 0.81391 | | K9o, rainbow, ten or higher | 48.891 | 57.812 | -8.921 | 0.84569 | | K9o, rainbow, nine or lower | 39.161 | 57.812 | -18.651 | 0.67739 | | K9o, two-tone | 47.403 | 57.812 | -10.409 | 0.81995 | | K9o, monotone | 49.841 | 57.812 | -7.971 | 0.86212 | | K9o, paired | 45.197 | 57.812 | -12.615 | 0.78179 | | 44, all flops | 52.946 | 57.023 | -4.077 | 0.92850 | | 44, rainbow, ten or higher | 51.109 | 57.023 | -5.914 | 0.89629 | | 44, rainbow, nine or lower | 60.839 | 57.023 | +3.816 | 1.06692 | | 44, two-tone | 52.597 | 57.023 | -4.426 | 0.92238 | | 44, monotone | 50.159 | 57.023 | -6.864 | 0.87963 | | 44, paired | 54.803 | 57.023 | -2.220 | 0.96107 | ## Does a shared suit matter? The suit split reads 52.86% for 44 with a shared suit and 53.36% without one. 44 does better with no shared suit, by 0.50 points. **K9o against 44 by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | K9o wins | Ties | 44 wins | K9o equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 60 | 83.33 | 46.798 | 0.678 | 52.524 | 47.137 | | No shared suit | 12 | 16.67 | 46.341 | 0.598 | 53.061 | 46.640 | ## How often this matchup comes up The class pair covers 72 combinations of specific cards in a fixed seat order, 0.0044% of 1,624,350, and 144 (0.0089%) in either order. ## A worked example Take a $200 pot built from $100 each. 44's equity of 52.95% is worth $105.90, a $5.90 edge, and K9o's 47.05% is worth $94.10, which is $5.90 under its stake. Over a long run, 1,000 deals split into about 526 for 44, 467 for K9o and 7 tied. ## The same matchup from the other side If you came looking for 44 against K9o, the numbers are the same with the hands swapped: 52.95% and 47.05%. ## Keep exploring Try Ks9h against 4d4c 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 Ks9h against 4d4c in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=Ks9h&p2=4d4c) - [K9o combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/k9o.md) - [44 combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/44.md) - [K9o vs J9s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9o-vs-j9s.md) - [K9o vs JTo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9o-vs-jto.md) - [Q9s vs 44](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/q9s-vs-44.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 72 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 - [K9o vs J9s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9o-vs-j9s.md) - [K9o vs JTo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9o-vs-jto.md) - [Q9s vs 44: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/q9s-vs-44.md)