--- title: "K9o vs QTo: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9o-vs-qto.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9o-vs-qto" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "Who is ahead, K9o or QTo? K9o leads 57.77% to 42.23% before the flop, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9o-vs-44.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9o-vs-j9s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/q9s-vs-qto.md"] --- # K9o vs QTo: preflop equity Who is ahead, K9o or QTo? K9o leads 57.77% to 42.23% before the flop, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. The exact count puts K9o at 57.77% and QTo at 42.23% when the two hands see all five board cards. ## K9o against QTo: the numbers **Exact preflop results for K9o against QTo, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | K9o | 57.437 | 0.666 | 41.897 | 57.770 | | QTo | 41.897 | 0.666 | 57.437 | 42.230 | Here offsuit hands face each other, K9o on one side and QTo on the other. Neither hand shares a rank with the other, so this is a contest of high cards, connection and suits. The lead is steady rather than large, and the flop still has plenty of say in who wins. A split pot comes up on 0.67% of boards, so the wins and the equity differ by half of that. Place 40 of 169 belongs to K9o and place 47 belongs to QTo in the ranking against a random hand. **Boards behind the percentages: 246,571,776 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | K9o | 141,623,000 | 1,642,000 | 103,306,000 | | QTo | 103,306,000 | 1,642,000 | 141,623,000 | The total is exact: 144 specific deals times 1,712,304 boards. The three counts are approximate, worked out from the percentages to five decimals and rounded to the nearest thousand. **K9o against QTo 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 | 1.368 | 1.741 | 2.387 | 0.731 | | QTo | 0.731 | 2.387 | 1.741 | 1.368 | 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 Across the five flop textures K9o's equity moves by 21.94 points, from 51.81% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better to 73.75% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower). K9o stays ahead on all five textures, but the swing between them is large, so how the flop looks matters a great deal. **K9o against QTo by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | K9o wins | Ties | QTo wins | K9o equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 24.110 | 51.658 | 0.304 | 48.038 | 51.810 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.042 | 73.332 | 0.836 | 25.832 | 73.750 | | Two-tone | 46.606 | 56.397 | 0.411 | 43.192 | 56.603 | | Monotone | 5.151 | 54.246 | 1.801 | 43.953 | 55.146 | | Paired | 17.091 | 62.837 | 1.462 | 35.701 | 63.568 | Rainbow flops have three suits, two-tone flops repeat one suit, monotone flops are all one suit, and paired flops repeat a rank. ## Compared with a random hand The table below sets each hand against its own random-hand baseline: a change of -0.04 points for K9o, from 57.81%, and -15.06 for QTo, from 57.29%. **K9o and QTo 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 | 57.770 | 57.812 | -0.042 | 0.99927 | | K9o, rainbow, ten or higher | 51.810 | 57.812 | -6.002 | 0.89618 | | K9o, rainbow, nine or lower | 73.750 | 57.812 | +15.938 | 1.27569 | | K9o, two-tone | 56.603 | 57.812 | -1.209 | 0.97909 | | K9o, monotone | 55.146 | 57.812 | -2.666 | 0.95389 | | K9o, paired | 63.568 | 57.812 | +5.756 | 1.09956 | | QTo, all flops | 42.230 | 57.291 | -15.061 | 0.73711 | | QTo, rainbow, ten or higher | 48.190 | 57.291 | -9.101 | 0.84114 | | QTo, rainbow, nine or lower | 26.250 | 57.291 | -31.041 | 0.45819 | | QTo, two-tone | 43.397 | 57.291 | -13.894 | 0.75748 | | QTo, monotone | 44.854 | 57.291 | -12.437 | 0.78292 | | QTo, paired | 36.432 | 57.291 | -20.859 | 0.63591 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Does suit overlap move the numbers? K9o has 57.78% when the hands share a suit and 57.72% when they do not. The two rows differ by only 0.06 points, so suits barely change this matchup. **K9o against QTo by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | K9o wins | Ties | QTo wins | K9o equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 120 | 83.33 | 57.440 | 0.682 | 41.878 | 57.781 | | No shared suit | 24 | 16.67 | 57.424 | 0.587 | 41.989 | 57.717 | ## How often this matchup comes up The class pair covers 144 combinations of specific cards in a fixed seat order, 0.0089% of 1,624,350, and 288 (0.0177%) in either order. ## A worked example To see what the equity is worth, imagine $100 each in a $200 pot. K9o is worth $115.54 on average (+$15.54); QTo is worth $84.46 (-$15.54). A thousand deals look like this: K9o takes 574, QTo takes 419, 7 are ties. ## The same matchup from the other side Read it from the other side: QTo against K9o is the same matchup with the numbers swapped, so QTo holds 42.23% and K9o holds 57.77%. That address sends you back to this page. ## Keep exploring Ks9h against QdTc 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 QdTc in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=Ks9h&p2=QdTc) - [K9o combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/k9o.md) - [QTo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/qto.md) - [K9o vs 44](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9o-vs-44.md) - [K9o vs J9s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9o-vs-j9s.md) - [Q9s vs QTo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/q9s-vs-qto.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed Each figure is a complete count over boards. Take the 144 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 - [K9o vs 44: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9o-vs-44.md) - [K9o vs J9s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9o-vs-j9s.md) - [Q9s vs QTo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/q9s-vs-qto.md)