--- title: "KJo vs QTs: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjo-vs-qts.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjo-vs-qts" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "Who is ahead, KJo or QTs? KJo leads 59.04% to 40.96% before the flop, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjo-vs-a4s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjo-vs-a3s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/55-vs-qts.md"] --- # KJo vs QTs: preflop equity Who is ahead, KJo or QTs? KJo leads 59.04% to 40.96% before the flop, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Over all 1,712,304 boards that can follow this deal, KJo finishes with 59.04% of the pot and QTs with 40.96%. ## KJo against QTs: the numbers **Exact preflop results for KJo against QTs, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KJo | 58.699 | 0.686 | 40.615 | 59.042 | | QTs | 40.615 | 0.686 | 58.699 | 40.958 | Here an offsuit hand (KJo) meets a suited hand (QTs). The two hands share no rank, which makes this a pure matchup of card strength, straight chances and flush chances. That is a modest edge, the kind that shows up over many hands and is easy to miss in one. Ties are 0.69% of the outcomes here; each tied board gives both hands half the pot. Ranked by equity against a random hand, KJo is number 26 of the 169 starting hands and QTs is number 34. **Boards behind the percentages: 82,190,592 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KJo | 48,245,000 | 564,000 | 33,382,000 | | QTs | 33,382,000 | 564,000 | 48,245,000 | Exact total: 48 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 QTs 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 | 1.442 | 1.704 | 2.462 | 0.694 | | QTs | 0.694 | 2.462 | 1.704 | 1.442 | In the last column, a pot-to-call ratio at or above the figure makes a call break even or better at 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 71.21%, and worst on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better, at 56.43%. KJo stays ahead on all five textures. **KJo against QTs by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | KJo wins | Ties | QTs wins | KJo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.260 | 56.294 | 0.262 | 43.444 | 56.425 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.770 | 70.739 | 0.935 | 28.326 | 71.206 | | Two-tone | 46.667 | 57.181 | 0.396 | 42.423 | 57.379 | | Monotone | 5.212 | 55.372 | 2.464 | 42.164 | 56.604 | | Paired | 17.091 | 61.656 | 1.402 | 36.942 | 62.357 | A rainbow flop shows three suits, a two-tone flop repeats one suit, a monotone flop is a single suit, and a paired flop repeats a rank. ## Compared with a random hand Each hand has a baseline against a random hand: 60.57% for KJo, 59.47% for QTs. Here the change is -1.53 and -18.51 points. **KJo and QTs 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 | 59.042 | 60.569 | -1.527 | 0.97479 | | KJo, rainbow, ten or higher | 56.425 | 60.569 | -4.144 | 0.93158 | | KJo, rainbow, nine or lower | 71.206 | 60.569 | +10.637 | 1.17562 | | KJo, two-tone | 57.379 | 60.569 | -3.190 | 0.94733 | | KJo, monotone | 56.604 | 60.569 | -3.965 | 0.93454 | | KJo, paired | 62.357 | 60.569 | +1.788 | 1.02952 | | QTs, all flops | 40.958 | 59.468 | -18.510 | 0.68874 | | QTs, rainbow, ten or higher | 43.575 | 59.468 | -15.893 | 0.73275 | | QTs, rainbow, nine or lower | 28.794 | 59.468 | -30.674 | 0.48419 | | QTs, two-tone | 42.621 | 59.468 | -16.847 | 0.71670 | | QTs, monotone | 43.396 | 59.468 | -16.072 | 0.72974 | | QTs, paired | 37.643 | 59.468 | -21.825 | 0.63300 | ## Does a shared suit matter? When the hands share a suit, KJo holds 59.55%; when they do not, it holds 58.53%. KJo does better with a shared suit, by 1.02 points. **KJo against QTs by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | KJo wins | Ties | QTs wins | KJo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 24 | 50.00 | 59.189 | 0.726 | 40.085 | 59.552 | | No shared suit | 24 | 50.00 | 58.208 | 0.647 | 41.145 | 58.532 | ## How often this matchup comes up Counting specific cards, KJo against QTs appears in 48 of the 1,624,350 ordered heads-up deals (0.0030%), and in 96 when the seats are swapped too (0.0059%). ## A worked example Put $100 each into a $200 pot and deal every board once: KJo averages $118.08 back, ahead of its $100 by $18.08, while QTs averages $81.92, short of its $100 by $18.08. Scaled to 1,000 deals, that is roughly 587 wins for KJo, 406 for QTs and 7 chopped pots. ## The same matchup from the other side Swap the hands and you get QTs with 40.96% against KJo with 59.04%. We keep one page per matchup, with the better-ranked hand first. ## Keep exploring KsJh against QdTd is a ready-made deal for the calculator, with no suit in common between the hands. The neighboring matchups below replace one hand with another of similar strength. - [Open KsJh against QdTd in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=KsJh&p2=QdTd) - [KJo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/kjo.md) - [QTs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/qts.md) - [KJo vs A4s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjo-vs-a4s.md) - [KJo vs A3s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjo-vs-a3s.md) - [55 vs QTs](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/55-vs-qts.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed Each figure is a complete count over boards. Take the 48 specific deals, group them by suit pattern, deal all 1,712,304 boards against each, and compare the two seven-card hands. Equity counts a tie as half a win; the flop rows use every one of a board's ten flops. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [KJo vs A4s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjo-vs-a4s.md) - [KJo vs A3s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjo-vs-a3s.md) - [55 vs QTs: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/55-vs-qts.md)