--- title: "K9s vs QTo: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9s-vs-qto.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9s-vs-qto" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "Who is ahead, K9s or QTo? K9s leads 59.88% to 40.12% before the flop, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9s-vs-44.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9s-vs-j9s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a5s-vs-qto.md"] --- # K9s vs QTo: preflop equity Who is ahead, K9s or QTo? K9s leads 59.88% to 40.12% before the flop, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Dealt all in against each other, K9s takes 59.88% of the pot on average and QTo takes the other 40.12%. ## K9s against QTo: the numbers **Exact preflop results for K9s against QTo, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | K9s | 59.543 | 0.672 | 39.785 | 59.879 | | QTo | 39.785 | 0.672 | 59.543 | 40.121 | K9s, a suited hand, plays QTo, an offsuit hand. The two hands share no rank, which makes this a pure matchup of card strength, straight chances and flush chances. That is a modest edge, the kind that shows up over many hands and is easy to miss in one. Of every 100 boards, about 0.67 are split pots, and the equity figures already include them. Among the 169 starting hands, K9s is number 29 and QTo is number 47 by strength 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 | 48,939,000 | 552,000 | 32,700,000 | | QTo | 32,700,000 | 552,000 | 48,939,000 | Exact total: 48 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. **K9s 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | K9s | 1.492 | 1.679 | 2.514 | 0.670 | | QTo | 0.670 | 2.514 | 1.679 | 1.492 | 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 K9s prefers low rainbow flops (nine high or lower), where it holds 74.74%, and likes rainbow flops topped by a ten or better least, where it holds 53.23%. 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 QTo by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | K9s wins | Ties | QTo wins | K9s equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.988 | 53.080 | 0.295 | 46.625 | 53.227 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.042 | 74.336 | 0.798 | 24.866 | 74.735 | | Two-tone | 46.667 | 59.322 | 0.378 | 40.300 | 59.511 | | Monotone | 5.212 | 55.066 | 2.452 | 42.482 | 56.292 | | Paired | 17.091 | 64.488 | 1.410 | 34.102 | 65.193 | 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 A random hand would give K9s 59.99% and QTo 57.29%. Against each other the change is -0.11 points for K9s and -17.17 for QTo. **K9s 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | K9s, all flops | 59.879 | 59.988 | -0.109 | 0.99818 | | K9s, rainbow, ten or higher | 53.227 | 59.988 | -6.761 | 0.88729 | | K9s, rainbow, nine or lower | 74.735 | 59.988 | +14.747 | 1.24583 | | K9s, two-tone | 59.511 | 59.988 | -0.477 | 0.99205 | | K9s, monotone | 56.292 | 59.988 | -3.696 | 0.93839 | | K9s, paired | 65.193 | 59.988 | +5.205 | 1.08677 | | QTo, all flops | 40.121 | 57.291 | -17.170 | 0.70030 | | QTo, rainbow, ten or higher | 46.773 | 57.291 | -10.518 | 0.81641 | | QTo, rainbow, nine or lower | 25.265 | 57.291 | -32.026 | 0.44099 | | QTo, two-tone | 40.489 | 57.291 | -16.802 | 0.70673 | | QTo, monotone | 43.708 | 57.291 | -13.583 | 0.76291 | | QTo, paired | 34.807 | 57.291 | -22.484 | 0.60755 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Looking only at deals where the hands share a suit, K9s has 59.57%; looking only at deals where they do not, 60.19%. K9s does better with no shared suit, by 0.62 points. **K9s against QTo by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | K9s wins | Ties | QTo wins | K9s equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 24 | 50.00 | 59.212 | 0.713 | 40.075 | 59.569 | | No shared suit | 24 | 50.00 | 59.874 | 0.632 | 39.494 | 60.190 | ## How often this matchup comes up You will meet this exact matchup 0.0059% of the time in a random heads-up deal: 96 of 1,624,350, counting either seat order. ## A worked example Say each player puts $100 in before the flop, making a $200 pot. On average K9s takes back $119.76 of it, which is $19.76 more than it put in, and QTo takes back $80.24, $19.76 less than it put in. In 1,000 deals of exactly this matchup, expect about 595 won outright by K9s, about 398 won outright by QTo and about 7 split. ## The same matchup from the other side Read it from the other side: QTo against K9s is the same matchup with the numbers swapped, so QTo holds 40.12% and K9s holds 59.88%. That address sends you back to this page. ## Keep exploring Ks9s against QhTd 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 QhTd in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=Ks9s&p2=QhTd) - [K9s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/k9s.md) - [QTo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/qto.md) - [K9s vs 44](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9s-vs-44.md) - [K9s vs J9s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9s-vs-j9s.md) - [A5s vs QTo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a5s-vs-qto.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 48 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 - [K9s vs 44: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9s-vs-44.md) - [K9s vs J9s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9s-vs-j9s.md) - [A5s vs QTo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a5s-vs-qto.md)