--- title: "KJo vs QJs: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjo-vs-qjs.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjo-vs-qjs" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "KJo is a big favorite over QJs before the flop: 69.79% to 30.21% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjo-vs-k9s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjo-vs-a5s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/55-vs-qjs.md"] --- # KJo vs QJs: preflop equity KJo is a big favorite over QJs before the flop: 69.79% to 30.21% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. If KJo and QJs get all the chips in before the flop, KJo owns 69.79% of the pot in the long run and QJs owns 30.21%. ## KJo against QJs: the numbers **Exact preflop results for KJo against QJs, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KJo | 68.574 | 2.428 | 28.998 | 69.788 | | QJs | 28.998 | 2.428 | 68.574 | 30.212 | The first hand is an offsuit hand; the second is a suited hand. The two hands share a rank, and the one with the better other card dominates: it wins most kicker battles when that shared rank hits. A lead of 39.58 points is large but not decisive: QJs still takes about 290 of every 1,000 deals. The tie share is 2.43%: on those boards the pot is chopped and neither hand wins outright. Among the 169 starting hands, KJo is number 26 and QJs is number 28 by strength against a random hand. **Boards behind the percentages: 61,642,944 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KJo | 42,271,000 | 1,497,000 | 17,875,000 | | QJs | 17,875,000 | 1,497,000 | 42,271,000 | 36 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 QJs 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 | 2.310 | 1.458 | 3.449 | 0.433 | | QJs | 0.433 | 3.449 | 1.458 | 2.310 | The final column gives the least the pot must offer for each unit called for a call to break even at this equity. ## Who is ahead on which flops Across the five flop textures KJo's equity moves by 16.60 points, from 65.17% on monotone flops to 81.77% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower). 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 QJs by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | KJo wins | Ties | QJs wins | KJo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.177 | 67.044 | 2.251 | 30.705 | 68.170 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.771 | 81.165 | 1.210 | 17.625 | 81.770 | | Two-tone | 46.527 | 67.127 | 1.886 | 30.987 | 68.070 | | Monotone | 5.192 | 63.445 | 3.455 | 33.100 | 65.173 | | Paired | 17.333 | 70.395 | 4.356 | 25.249 | 72.573 | 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 Each hand has a baseline against a random hand: 60.57% for KJo, 60.26% for QJs. Here the change is +9.22 and -30.05 points. **KJo and QJs 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 | 69.788 | 60.569 | +9.219 | 1.15221 | | KJo, rainbow, ten or higher | 68.170 | 60.569 | +7.601 | 1.12549 | | KJo, rainbow, nine or lower | 81.770 | 60.569 | +21.201 | 1.35003 | | KJo, two-tone | 68.070 | 60.569 | +7.501 | 1.12384 | | KJo, monotone | 65.173 | 60.569 | +4.604 | 1.07601 | | KJo, paired | 72.573 | 60.569 | +12.004 | 1.19819 | | QJs, all flops | 30.212 | 60.259 | -30.047 | 0.50137 | | QJs, rainbow, ten or higher | 31.830 | 60.259 | -28.429 | 0.52822 | | QJs, rainbow, nine or lower | 18.230 | 60.259 | -42.029 | 0.30253 | | QJs, two-tone | 31.930 | 60.259 | -28.329 | 0.52988 | | QJs, monotone | 34.827 | 60.259 | -25.432 | 0.57796 | | QJs, paired | 27.427 | 60.259 | -32.832 | 0.45515 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Suit overlap shows up in the numbers. With a suit in common KJo has 70.80% equity, and with none in common it has 69.28%. KJo does better with a shared suit, by 1.52 points. **KJo against QJs by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | KJo wins | Ties | QJs wins | KJo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 12 | 33.33 | 69.545 | 2.509 | 27.946 | 70.799 | | No shared suit | 24 | 66.67 | 68.089 | 2.387 | 29.524 | 69.282 | ## How often this matchup comes up How often does it happen? 36 of the 1,624,350 ordered deals (0.0022%) are KJo against QJs, and 72 (0.0044%) if either hand may sit in either seat. ## A worked example Take a $200 pot built from $100 each. KJo's equity of 69.79% is worth $139.58, a $39.58 edge, and QJs' 30.21% is worth $60.42, which is $39.58 under its stake. Think in thousands: about 686 of 1,000 go to KJo, about 290 go to QJs, and about 24 are chopped. ## The same matchup from the other side The reversed view, QJs against KJo, shows 30.21% for QJs and 69.79% for KJo. It is the same count, so it redirects here. ## Keep exploring Try KsJh against QdJd 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 QdJd in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=KsJh&p2=QdJd) - [KJo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/kjo.md) - [QJs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/qjs.md) - [KJo vs K9s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjo-vs-k9s.md) - [KJo vs A5s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjo-vs-a5s.md) - [55 vs QJs](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/55-vs-qjs.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed All 1,712,304 five-card boards are dealt for every suit pattern among the 36 specific deals of KJo against QJs, and both hands are scored on each. That is a full count, so the percentages are exact. Ties are half a win each, and each board appears once per flop it contains. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [KJo vs K9s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjo-vs-k9s.md) - [KJo vs A5s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjo-vs-a5s.md) - [55 vs QJs: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/55-vs-qjs.md)