--- title: "K9s vs JTo: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9s-vs-jto.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9s-vs-jto" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "Who is ahead, K9s or JTo? K9s leads 58.86% to 41.14% before the flop, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9s-vs-t9s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9s-vs-33.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a5s-vs-jto.md"] --- # K9s vs JTo: preflop equity Who is ahead, K9s or JTo? K9s leads 58.86% to 41.14% before the flop, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. In equity, K9s against JTo stands at 58.86% to 41.14%, a gap of 17.72 points. ## K9s against JTo: the numbers **Exact preflop results for K9s against JTo, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | K9s | 58.532 | 0.665 | 40.803 | 58.864 | | JTo | 40.803 | 0.665 | 58.532 | 41.136 | The matchup pits a suited hand against an offsuit hand. Neither hand shares a rank with the other, so this is a contest of high cards, connection and suits. A 17.72 point lead is real, and JTo still takes about 408 of every 1,000 deals outright. A split pot comes up on 0.67% of boards, so the wins and the equity differ by half of that. K9s ranks number 29 of 169 starting hands, and JTo ranks number 57, by equity against a random hand. **Boards behind the percentages: 82,190,592 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | K9s | 48,108,000 | 547,000 | 33,536,000 | | JTo | 33,536,000 | 547,000 | 48,108,000 | The board total is exact, 48 deals at 1,712,304 boards each. Won, tied and lost counts are rounded to the nearest thousand from the five-decimal percentages. **K9s against JTo read as odds** | Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | K9s | 1.431 | 1.708 | 2.451 | 0.699 | | JTo | 0.699 | 2.451 | 1.708 | 1.431 | The last column is the break-even price: the pot odds a call needs to offer, as a ratio of pot to call. ## Who is ahead on which flops If you know the kind of flop that came, the numbers shift: K9s holds 71.56% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) and 52.68% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better. K9s stays ahead on all five textures, but the swing between them is large, so how the flop looks matters a great deal. **K9s against JTo by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | K9s wins | Ties | JTo wins | K9s equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.988 | 52.534 | 0.299 | 47.167 | 52.683 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.042 | 71.194 | 0.741 | 28.065 | 71.564 | | Two-tone | 46.667 | 58.240 | 0.369 | 41.391 | 58.425 | | Monotone | 5.212 | 54.236 | 2.445 | 43.319 | 55.458 | | Paired | 17.091 | 63.840 | 1.414 | 34.746 | 64.547 | 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 Compared with a random opponent, this matchup shifts K9s from 59.99% by -1.13 points and JTo from 55.25% by -14.11 points. **K9s and JTo 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | K9s, all flops | 58.864 | 59.988 | -1.124 | 0.98126 | | K9s, rainbow, ten or higher | 52.683 | 59.988 | -7.305 | 0.87823 | | K9s, rainbow, nine or lower | 71.564 | 59.988 | +11.576 | 1.19297 | | K9s, two-tone | 58.425 | 59.988 | -1.563 | 0.97394 | | K9s, monotone | 55.458 | 59.988 | -4.530 | 0.92448 | | K9s, paired | 64.547 | 59.988 | +4.559 | 1.07600 | | JTo, all flops | 41.136 | 55.248 | -14.112 | 0.74457 | | JTo, rainbow, ten or higher | 47.317 | 55.248 | -7.931 | 0.85645 | | JTo, rainbow, nine or lower | 28.436 | 55.248 | -26.812 | 0.51470 | | JTo, two-tone | 41.575 | 55.248 | -13.673 | 0.75252 | | JTo, monotone | 44.542 | 55.248 | -10.706 | 0.80622 | | JTo, paired | 35.453 | 55.248 | -19.795 | 0.64171 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Does suit overlap move the numbers? K9s has 58.55% when the hands share a suit and 59.18% when they do not. K9s does better with no shared suit, by 0.63 points. **K9s against JTo by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | K9s wins | Ties | JTo wins | K9s equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 24 | 50.00 | 58.195 | 0.706 | 41.099 | 58.548 | | No shared suit | 24 | 50.00 | 58.869 | 0.625 | 40.506 | 59.181 | ## How often this matchup comes up How often does it happen? 48 of the 1,624,350 ordered deals (0.0030%) are K9s against JTo, and 96 (0.0059%) if either hand may sit in either seat. ## A worked example Take a $200 pot built from $100 each. K9s' equity of 58.86% is worth $117.72, a $17.72 edge, and JTo's 41.14% is worth $82.28, which is $17.72 under its stake. Per 1,000 deals: K9s wins about 585, JTo wins about 408, and about 7 end in a split pot. ## The same matchup from the other side The mirror image, JTo against K9s, is 41.14% to 58.86%, and its address redirects to this page. ## Keep exploring Ks9s against JhTd 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 Ks9s against JhTd in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=Ks9s&p2=JhTd) - [K9s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/k9s.md) - [JTo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/jto.md) - [K9s vs T9s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9s-vs-t9s.md) - [K9s vs 33](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9s-vs-33.md) - [A5s vs JTo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a5s-vs-jto.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed Each figure is a complete count over boards. Take the 48 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 - [K9s vs T9s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9s-vs-t9s.md) - [K9s vs 33: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9s-vs-33.md) - [A5s vs JTo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a5s-vs-jto.md)