KJo vs T9o: preflop equity

Before any board card is dealt, KJo holds 64.60% equity against T9o, which leaves T9o with 35.40%.

KJo

64.60%

Wins 64.27%, ties 0.66%

T9o

35.40%

Wins 35.07%, ties 0.66%

Equity counts a tie as half a win. Exact over every board.

KJo against T9o: the numbers

Exact preflop results for KJo against T9o, in percent
HandWinsTiesLosesEquity
KJo64.2680.65935.07364.597
T9o35.0730.65964.26835.403

Each side holds one of the offsuit hands: KJo and T9o. The two hands share no rank, which makes this a pure matchup of card strength, straight chances and flush chances.

A 29.20 point lead is real, and T9o still takes about 351 of every 1,000 deals outright. About 0.66% of boards chop the pot, which is why equity sits slightly above the win figure for both hands.

Place 26 of 169 belongs to KJo and place 78 belongs to T9o in the ranking against a random hand.

Boards behind the percentages: 246,571,776 counted in all
HandBoards won, aboutBoards tied, aboutBoards lost, about
KJo158,467,0001,625,00086,480,000
T9o86,480,0001,625,000158,467,000

The total is exact: 144 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 T9o read as odds
HandEquity as odds (to 1)Wins one deal inLoses one deal inPot odds needed to call (to 1)
KJo1.8251.5562.8510.548
T9o0.5482.8511.5561.825

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

Rainbow flops topped by a ten or better are the best for KJo (67.18%); low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) are the worst (53.85%). KJo stays ahead on all five textures.

KJo against T9o by flop texture, in percent
FlopShare of flopsKJo winsTiesT9o winsKJo equity
Rainbow, ten or higher24.11067.0230.30832.66967.177
Rainbow, nine or lower7.04253.4650.77845.75753.854
Two-tone46.60663.9570.40135.64264.158
Monotone5.15162.7351.79435.47163.632
Paired17.09166.1421.46632.39266.875

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

How much does the opponent matter? Compared with its random-hand 60.57%, KJo changes by +4.03 points, and T9o, from 51.53%, by -16.13.

KJo and T9o here compared with each against a random hand, in percent
CaseEquity hereAgainst a random handChange in pointsTimes the random-hand equity
KJo, all flops64.59760.569+4.0281.06650
KJo, rainbow, ten or higher67.17760.569+6.6081.10910
KJo, rainbow, nine or lower53.85460.569-6.7150.88913
KJo, two-tone64.15860.569+3.5891.05925
KJo, monotone63.63260.569+3.0631.05057
KJo, paired66.87560.569+6.3061.10411
T9o, all flops35.40351.532-16.1290.68701
T9o, rainbow, ten or higher32.82351.532-18.7090.63694
T9o, rainbow, nine or lower46.14651.532-5.3860.89548
T9o, two-tone35.84251.532-15.6900.69553
T9o, monotone36.36851.532-15.1640.70574
T9o, paired33.12551.532-18.4070.64280

Does a shared suit matter?

When the hands share a suit, KJo holds 64.70%; when they do not, it holds 64.06%. KJo does better with a shared suit, by 0.64 points.

KJo against T9o by suit overlap, in percent
DealsSpecific dealsShare of dealsKJo winsTiesT9o winsKJo equity
Share a suit12083.3364.3670.67534.95864.704
No shared suit2416.6763.7740.58035.64664.064

How often this matchup comes up

How often does it happen? 144 of the 1,624,350 ordered deals (0.0089%) are KJo against T9o, and 288 (0.0177%) if either hand may sit in either seat.

A worked example

Worked example: both players commit $100, so $200 sits in the middle. Over every board, KJo's average share is $129.20 (a gain of $29.20) and T9o's is $70.80 (a loss of $29.20).

Per 1,000 deals: KJo wins about 643, T9o wins about 351, and about 6 end in a split pot.

The same matchup from the other side

One page covers both views. From T9o's side the equity is 35.40%, and from KJo's side it is 64.60%.

KsJh against Td9c 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.

How this was computed

All 1,712,304 five-card boards are dealt for every suit pattern among the 144 specific deals of KJo against T9o, 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.

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