--- title: "KJo vs JTs: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjo-vs-jts.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjo-vs-jts" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "KJo is a big favorite over JTs before the flop: 68.28% to 31.72% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjo-vs-a2s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjo-vs-qto.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/55-vs-jts.md"] --- # KJo vs JTs: preflop equity KJo is a big favorite over JTs before the flop: 68.28% to 31.72% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. If KJo and JTs get all the chips in before the flop, KJo owns 68.28% of the pot in the long run and JTs owns 31.72%. ## KJo against JTs: the numbers **Exact preflop results for KJo against JTs, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KJo | 66.901 | 2.756 | 30.343 | 68.279 | | JTs | 30.343 | 2.756 | 66.901 | 31.721 | The first hand is an offsuit hand; the second is a suited hand. Because the hands share one rank, the one with the higher kicker is ahead when that rank pairs and the other hand is mostly drawing. A lead of 36.56 points is large but not decisive: JTs still takes about 303 of every 1,000 deals. Ties are part of the picture: 2.76% of boards end in a split pot, and each side counts that as half a win. By strength against a random hand, KJo holds place 26 of 169 and JTs holds place 45. **Boards behind the percentages: 61,642,944 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KJo | 41,240,000 | 1,699,000 | 18,704,000 | | JTs | 18,704,000 | 1,699,000 | 41,240,000 | The total is exact: 36 specific deals times 1,712,304 boards. The three counts are approximate, worked out from the percentages to five decimals and rounded to the nearest thousand. **KJo against JTs 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 | 2.152 | 1.495 | 3.296 | 0.465 | | JTs | 0.465 | 3.296 | 1.495 | 2.152 | 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 The flop changes the picture. KJo does best on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower), at 76.43%, and worst on monotone flops, at 64.08%. KJo stays ahead on all five textures. **KJo against JTs by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | KJo wins | Ties | JTs wins | KJo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.177 | 66.219 | 2.663 | 31.118 | 67.551 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.771 | 75.689 | 1.471 | 22.840 | 76.425 | | Two-tone | 46.527 | 65.332 | 2.242 | 32.426 | 66.453 | | Monotone | 5.192 | 62.213 | 3.726 | 34.061 | 64.076 | | Paired | 17.333 | 69.486 | 4.547 | 25.967 | 71.759 | 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 The table below sets each hand against its own random-hand baseline: a change of +7.71 points for KJo, from 60.57%, and -25.81 for JTs, from 57.53%. **KJo and JTs 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 | 68.279 | 60.569 | +7.710 | 1.12729 | | KJo, rainbow, ten or higher | 67.551 | 60.569 | +6.982 | 1.11527 | | KJo, rainbow, nine or lower | 76.425 | 60.569 | +15.856 | 1.26178 | | KJo, two-tone | 66.453 | 60.569 | +5.884 | 1.09715 | | KJo, monotone | 64.076 | 60.569 | +3.507 | 1.05790 | | KJo, paired | 71.759 | 60.569 | +11.190 | 1.18475 | | JTs, all flops | 31.721 | 57.528 | -25.807 | 0.55140 | | JTs, rainbow, ten or higher | 32.449 | 57.528 | -25.079 | 0.56406 | | JTs, rainbow, nine or lower | 23.575 | 57.528 | -33.953 | 0.40980 | | JTs, two-tone | 33.547 | 57.528 | -23.981 | 0.58314 | | JTs, monotone | 35.924 | 57.528 | -21.604 | 0.62446 | | JTs, paired | 28.241 | 57.528 | -29.287 | 0.49091 | ## Does a shared suit matter? The suit split reads 69.25% for KJo with a shared suit and 67.79% without one. KJo does better with a shared suit, by 1.46 points. **KJo against JTs by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | KJo wins | Ties | JTs wins | KJo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 12 | 33.33 | 67.831 | 2.842 | 29.327 | 69.252 | | No shared suit | 24 | 66.67 | 66.436 | 2.713 | 30.851 | 67.792 | ## How often this matchup comes up Out of 1,624,350 ways to deal two seats two cards each, 36 are KJo in one seat and JTs in the other (0.0022%); with the seats swapped too, 72 (0.0044%). ## A worked example Say each player puts $100 in before the flop, making a $200 pot. On average KJo takes back $136.56 of it, which is $36.56 more than it put in, and JTs takes back $63.44, $36.56 less than it put in. Over a long run, 1,000 deals split into about 669 for KJo, 303 for JTs and 28 tied. ## The same matchup from the other side Swap the hands and you get JTs with 31.72% against KJo with 68.28%. We keep one page per matchup, with the better-ranked hand first. ## Keep exploring Try KsJh against JdTd 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 JdTd in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=KsJh&p2=JdTd) - [KJo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/kjo.md) - [JTs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/jts.md) - [KJo vs A2s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjo-vs-a2s.md) - [KJo vs QTo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjo-vs-qto.md) - [55 vs JTs](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/55-vs-jts.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed The figures are counted, not estimated: 1,712,304 boards for every suit pattern of the 36 specific deals, with both seven-card hands compared each time. Equity gives half a win for a tie. For the flop rows, a board is counted once under each of the ten flops inside it. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [KJo vs A2s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjo-vs-a2s.md) - [KJo vs QTo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjo-vs-qto.md) - [55 vs JTs: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/55-vs-jts.md)