--- title: "KJo vs KTo: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjo-vs-kto.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjo-vs-kto" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "KJo is a big favorite over KTo before the flop: 72.90% to 27.10% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjo-vs-qts.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjo-vs-a4s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/55-vs-kto.md"] --- # KJo vs KTo: preflop equity KJo is a big favorite over KTo before the flop: 72.90% to 27.10% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. If KJo and KTo get all the chips in before the flop, KJo owns 72.90% of the pot in the long run and KTo owns 27.10%. ## KJo against KTo: the numbers **Exact preflop results for KJo against KTo, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KJo | 68.969 | 7.855 | 23.176 | 72.896 | | KTo | 23.176 | 7.855 | 68.969 | 27.104 | The matchup is offsuit hands on both sides, KJo against KTo. 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 KTo needs a specific kind of board to catch up. Ties are 7.86% of the outcomes here; each tied board gives both hands half the pot. For context, KJo sits at number 26 of 169 starting hands and KTo at number 33 when each is run against a random hand. **Boards behind the percentages: 184,928,832 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KJo | 127,544,000 | 14,526,000 | 42,859,000 | | KTo | 42,859,000 | 14,526,000 | 127,544,000 | The board total is exact, 108 deals at 1,712,304 boards each. Won, tied and lost counts are rounded to the nearest thousand from the five-decimal percentages. **KJo against KTo 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 | 2.689 | 1.450 | 4.315 | 0.372 | | KTo | 0.372 | 4.315 | 1.450 | 2.689 | 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 Split by what the flop looks like, KJo peaks at 84.27% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) and bottoms out at 68.14% on monotone flops. KJo stays ahead on all five textures, but the swing between them is large, so how the flop looks matters a great deal. **KJo against KTo by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | KJo wins | Ties | KTo wins | KJo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.275 | 67.885 | 5.879 | 26.236 | 70.825 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.771 | 82.408 | 3.725 | 13.867 | 84.270 | | Two-tone | 46.477 | 70.855 | 5.263 | 23.882 | 73.486 | | Monotone | 5.144 | 65.189 | 5.892 | 28.919 | 68.135 | | Paired | 17.333 | 60.464 | 19.893 | 19.643 | 70.410 | Flop types: rainbow means three different suits, two-tone means one suit twice, monotone means one suit three times, paired means a repeated rank. ## Compared with a random hand A random hand would give KJo 60.57% and KTo 59.74%. Against each other the change is +12.33 points for KJo and -32.64 for KTo. **KJo and KTo 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 | 72.896 | 60.569 | +12.327 | 1.20352 | | KJo, rainbow, ten or higher | 70.825 | 60.569 | +10.256 | 1.16933 | | KJo, rainbow, nine or lower | 84.270 | 60.569 | +23.701 | 1.39131 | | KJo, two-tone | 73.486 | 60.569 | +12.917 | 1.21326 | | KJo, monotone | 68.135 | 60.569 | +7.566 | 1.12492 | | KJo, paired | 70.410 | 60.569 | +9.841 | 1.16248 | | KTo, all flops | 27.104 | 59.739 | -32.635 | 0.45371 | | KTo, rainbow, ten or higher | 29.175 | 59.739 | -30.564 | 0.48837 | | KTo, rainbow, nine or lower | 15.730 | 59.739 | -44.009 | 0.26331 | | KTo, two-tone | 26.514 | 59.739 | -33.225 | 0.44383 | | KTo, monotone | 31.865 | 59.739 | -27.874 | 0.53340 | | KTo, paired | 29.590 | 59.739 | -30.149 | 0.49532 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Looking only at deals where the hands share a suit, KJo has 73.00%; looking only at deals where they do not, 72.53%. KJo does better with a shared suit, by 0.47 points. **KJo against KTo by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | KJo wins | Ties | KTo wins | KJo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 84 | 77.78 | 69.057 | 7.887 | 23.056 | 73.000 | | No shared suit | 24 | 22.22 | 68.661 | 7.743 | 23.596 | 72.533 | ## How often this matchup comes up Counting specific cards, KJo against KTo appears in 108 of the 1,624,350 ordered heads-up deals (0.0066%), and in 216 when the seats are swapped too (0.0133%). ## A worked example Say each player puts $100 in before the flop, making a $200 pot. On average KJo takes back $145.80 of it, which is $45.80 more than it put in, and KTo takes back $54.20, $45.80 less than it put in. Out of 1,000 deals you should see around 690 outright wins for KJo, 232 for KTo, and 78 split pots. ## The same matchup from the other side The reversed view, KTo against KJo, shows 27.10% for KTo and 72.90% for KJo. It is the same count, so it redirects here. ## Keep exploring Open the calculator with KsJh against KdTc already entered, a deal with no shared suit, and change any card to try your own hand. The matchups after it each swap one hand for a nearby one in the ranking. - [Open KsJh against KdTc in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=KsJh&p2=KdTc) - [KJo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/kjo.md) - [KTo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/kto.md) - [KJo vs QTs](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjo-vs-qts.md) - [KJo vs A4s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjo-vs-a4s.md) - [55 vs KTo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/55-vs-kto.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed This is an exact count with no sampling. For the 108 ways to deal one KJo and one KTo without reusing a card, grouped by suit pattern, every one of the 1,712,304 possible boards is dealt and both seven-card hands are compared. A tie counts as half a win in the equity column, and each board is counted once under each of its ten three-card flops. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [KJo vs QTs: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjo-vs-qts.md) - [KJo vs A4s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjo-vs-a4s.md) - [55 vs KTo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/55-vs-kto.md)