KJo
72.41%
Wins 71.01%, ties 2.81%
JTo
27.59%
Wins 26.18%, ties 2.81%
KJo against JTo: the numbers
| Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KJo | 71.007 | 2.814 | 26.179 | 72.414 |
| JTo | 26.179 | 2.814 | 71.007 | 27.586 |
KJo meets JTo, and both are offsuit hands. Sharing a rank is the signature of a dominated hand, since the weaker hand is usually out-kicked when the shared rank shows up.
KJo is well ahead, and JTo needs a specific kind of board to catch up. A split pot comes up on 2.81% of boards, so the wins and the equity differ by half of that.
By strength against a random hand, KJo holds place 26 of 169 and JTo holds place 57.
| Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about |
|---|---|---|---|
| KJo | 131,312,000 | 5,204,000 | 48,413,000 |
| JTo | 48,413,000 | 5,204,000 | 131,312,000 |
Exact total: 108 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.
| Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KJo | 2.625 | 1.408 | 3.820 | 0.381 |
| JTo | 0.381 | 3.820 | 1.408 | 2.625 |
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
By flop texture, KJo's equity runs from 68.97% on monotone flops up to 79.22% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower). KJo stays ahead on all five textures.
| Flop | Share of flops | KJo wins | Ties | JTo wins | KJo equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.275 | 68.289 | 2.720 | 28.991 | 69.649 |
| Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.771 | 78.460 | 1.517 | 20.023 | 79.218 |
| Two-tone | 46.477 | 70.549 | 2.352 | 27.099 | 71.725 |
| Monotone | 5.144 | 67.378 | 3.182 | 29.440 | 68.969 |
| Paired | 17.333 | 73.623 | 4.652 | 21.725 | 75.949 |
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
Against one random hand instead, KJo holds 60.57% and JTo holds 55.25%. Facing each other changes that by +11.84 points for KJo and -27.66 points for JTo.
| Case | Equity here | Against a random hand | Change in points | Times the random-hand equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KJo, all flops | 72.414 | 60.569 | +11.845 | 1.19556 |
| KJo, rainbow, ten or higher | 69.649 | 60.569 | +9.080 | 1.14991 |
| KJo, rainbow, nine or lower | 79.218 | 60.569 | +18.649 | 1.30790 |
| KJo, two-tone | 71.725 | 60.569 | +11.156 | 1.18419 |
| KJo, monotone | 68.969 | 60.569 | +8.400 | 1.13868 |
| KJo, paired | 75.949 | 60.569 | +15.380 | 1.25393 |
| JTo, all flops | 27.586 | 55.248 | -27.662 | 0.49931 |
| JTo, rainbow, ten or higher | 30.351 | 55.248 | -24.897 | 0.54936 |
| JTo, rainbow, nine or lower | 20.782 | 55.248 | -34.466 | 0.37616 |
| JTo, two-tone | 28.275 | 55.248 | -26.973 | 0.51178 |
| JTo, monotone | 31.031 | 55.248 | -24.217 | 0.56167 |
| JTo, paired | 24.051 | 55.248 | -31.197 | 0.43533 |
Does a shared suit matter?
Suit overlap shows up in the numbers. With a suit in common KJo has 72.58% equity, and with none in common it has 71.84%. KJo does better with a shared suit, by 0.74 points.
| Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | KJo wins | Ties | JTo wins | KJo equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Share a suit | 84 | 77.78 | 71.158 | 2.841 | 26.001 | 72.579 |
| No shared suit | 24 | 22.22 | 70.481 | 2.717 | 26.802 | 71.839 |
How often this matchup comes up
Out of 1,624,350 ways to deal two seats two cards each, 108 are KJo in one seat and JTo in the other (0.0066%); with the seats swapped too, 216 (0.0133%).
A worked example
Put $100 each into a $200 pot and deal every board once: KJo averages $144.82 back, ahead of its $100 by $44.82, while JTo averages $55.18, short of its $100 by $44.82.
Think in thousands: about 710 of 1,000 go to KJo, about 262 go to JTo, and about 28 are chopped.
The same matchup from the other side
JTo versus KJo is this same page seen from the other hand: 27.59% for JTo, 72.41% for KJo.
Keep exploring
Try KsJh against JdTc 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.
How this was computed
Nothing here is simulated. The 108 deals of KJo against JTo fall into a few suit patterns, each dealt against all 1,712,304 boards, with both best five-card hands compared on every board. Ties give each hand half a win, and the flop rows count a board under each of its ten flops.
Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used.
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