--- title: "KJo vs JTo: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjo-vs-jto.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjo-vs-jto" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "KJo is a big favorite over JTo before the flop: 72.41% to 27.59% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjo-vs-t9s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjo-vs-33.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/55-vs-jto.md"] --- # KJo vs JTo: preflop equity KJo is a big favorite over JTo before the flop: 72.41% to 27.59% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. In equity, KJo against JTo stands at 72.41% to 27.59%, a gap of 44.82 points. ## KJo against JTo: the numbers **Exact preflop results for KJo against JTo, in percent** | 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. **Boards behind the percentages: 184,928,832 counted in all** | 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. **KJo 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 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. **KJo against JTo by flop texture, in percent** | 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. **KJo 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 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. **KJo against JTo by suit overlap, in percent** | 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. - [Open KsJh against JdTc in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=KsJh&p2=JdTc) - [KJo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/kjo.md) - [JTo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/jto.md) - [KJo vs T9s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjo-vs-t9s.md) - [KJo vs 33](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjo-vs-33.md) - [55 vs JTo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/55-vs-jto.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## 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. ## Related - [KJo vs T9s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjo-vs-t9s.md) - [KJo vs 33: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjo-vs-33.md) - [55 vs JTo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/55-vs-jto.md)