KJo vs A3s: preflop equity

Averaged over every possible board, A3s is ahead of KJo by 19.56 points of equity, 59.78% to 40.22%.

KJo

40.22%

Wins 39.97%, ties 0.50%

A3s

59.78%

Wins 59.53%, ties 0.50%

Equity counts a tie as half a win. Exact over every board.

KJo against A3s: the numbers

Exact preflop results for KJo against A3s, in percent
HandWinsTiesLosesEquity
KJo39.9660.50459.53040.218
A3s59.5300.50439.96659.782

We compare an offsuit hand with a suited 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. The tie share is 0.50%: on those boards the pot is chopped and neither hand wins outright.

Among the 169 starting hands, KJo is number 26 and A3s is number 38 by strength against a random hand.

Boards behind the percentages: 82,190,592 counted in all
HandBoards won, aboutBoards tied, aboutBoards lost, about
KJo32,848,000414,00048,928,000
A3s48,928,000414,00032,848,000

48 specific deals times 1,712,304 boards gives the exact total. The won, tied and lost counts are approximations from the five-decimal percentages, rounded to the nearest thousand.

KJo against A3s read as odds
HandEquity as odds (to 1)Wins one deal inLoses one deal inPot odds needed to call (to 1)
KJo0.6732.5021.6801.486
A3s1.4861.6802.5020.673

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

A3s prefers low rainbow flops (nine high or lower), where it holds 77.39%, and likes rainbow flops topped by a ten or better least, where it holds 52.10%. A3s stays ahead on all five textures, but the swing between them is large, so how the flop looks matters a great deal.

KJo against A3s by flop texture, in percent
FlopShare of flopsKJo winsTiesA3s winsKJo equity
Rainbow, ten or higher23.98847.8390.12952.03247.904
Rainbow, nine or lower7.04222.0231.16776.81022.606
Two-tone46.66740.3820.33459.28440.549
Monotone5.21242.3392.41655.24543.547
Paired17.09134.4510.63764.91234.769

Read the flop types this way: rainbow has three suits, two-tone has two cards of one suit, monotone has three, and paired repeats a rank.

Compared with a random hand

A random hand would give KJo 60.57% and A3s 58.22%. Against each other the change is -20.35 points for KJo and +1.56 for A3s.

KJo and A3s here compared with each against a random hand, in percent
CaseEquity hereAgainst a random handChange in pointsTimes the random-hand equity
KJo, all flops40.21860.569-20.3510.66400
KJo, rainbow, ten or higher47.90460.569-12.6650.79090
KJo, rainbow, nine or lower22.60660.569-37.9630.37323
KJo, two-tone40.54960.569-20.0200.66947
KJo, monotone43.54760.569-17.0220.71897
KJo, paired34.76960.569-25.8000.57404
A3s, all flops59.78258.220+1.5621.02683
A3s, rainbow, ten or higher52.09658.220-6.1240.89481
A3s, rainbow, nine or lower77.39458.220+19.1741.32934
A3s, two-tone59.45158.220+1.2311.02114
A3s, monotone56.45358.220-1.7670.96965
A3s, paired65.23158.220+7.0111.12042

Does a shared suit matter?

Split by suits, the deals give A3s 59.44% when the hands overlap in a suit and 60.12% when they do not. A3s does better with no shared suit, by 0.68 points.

KJo against A3s by suit overlap, in percent
DealsSpecific dealsShare of dealsKJo winsTiesA3s winsKJo equity
Share a suit2450.0040.2850.54559.17040.557
No shared suit2450.0039.6480.46359.88939.879

How often this matchup comes up

How often does it happen? 48 of the 1,624,350 ordered deals (0.0030%) are KJo against A3s, and 96 (0.0059%) if either hand may sit in either seat.

A worked example

Try it with money: two players each put in $100 and the whole board runs out every possible way. A3s averages $119.56 from the $200, up $19.56; KJo averages $80.44, down $19.56.

Think in thousands: about 595 of 1,000 go to A3s, about 400 go to KJo, and about 5 are chopped.

The same matchup from the other side

A3s against KJo adds nothing new: it is 59.78% for A3s and 40.22% for KJo, the same figures reversed.

The calculator link fills in KsJh against Ad3d, a deal where the two hands share no suit. Change any card to test your own hand. The neighboring matchups below swap one of the two hands for one of similar strength.

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.

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