KJs
63.32%
Wins 62.93%, ties 0.77%
43s
36.68%
Wins 36.30%, ties 0.77%
KJs against 43s: the numbers
| Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KJs | 62.932 | 0.765 | 36.303 | 63.315 |
| 43s | 36.303 | 0.765 | 62.932 | 36.685 |
Two suited hands meet here: KJs against 43s. With no overlap in ranks, every card that pairs one hand is a card that does not pair the other.
KJs is ahead, but 43s is far from dead: it takes 363 of every 1,000 deals outright. About 0.77% of boards chop the pot, which is why equity sits slightly above the win figure for both hands.
By strength against a random hand, KJs holds place 20 of 169 and 43s holds place 150.
| Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about |
|---|---|---|---|
| KJs | 17,241,000 | 210,000 | 9,946,000 |
| 43s | 9,946,000 | 210,000 | 17,241,000 |
Exact total: 16 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.
| Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KJs | 1.726 | 1.589 | 2.755 | 0.579 |
| 43s | 0.579 | 2.755 | 1.589 | 1.726 |
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
KJs prefers rainbow flops topped by a ten or better, where it holds 70.07%, and likes low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) least, where it holds 38.24%. 43s takes over on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower), so the favorite before the flop is the underdog on those boards.
| Flop | Share of flops | KJs wins | Ties | 43s wins | KJs equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rainbow, ten or higher | 24.595 | 69.912 | 0.307 | 29.781 | 70.066 |
| Rainbow, nine or lower | 6.314 | 37.717 | 1.036 | 61.247 | 38.235 |
| Two-tone | 46.727 | 62.393 | 0.414 | 37.193 | 62.600 |
| Monotone | 5.273 | 58.616 | 3.715 | 37.669 | 60.473 |
| Paired | 17.091 | 65.009 | 1.372 | 33.619 | 65.695 |
Read the flop types this way: rainbow has three suits, two-tone has two cards of one suit, monotone has three, and paired repeats a rank.
Compared with a random hand
A random hand would give KJs 62.57% and 43s 38.64%. Against each other the change is +0.75 points for KJs and -1.96 for 43s.
| Case | Equity here | Against a random hand | Change in points | Times the random-hand equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KJs, all flops | 63.315 | 62.567 | +0.748 | 1.01196 |
| KJs, rainbow, ten or higher | 70.066 | 62.567 | +7.499 | 1.11986 |
| KJs, rainbow, nine or lower | 38.235 | 62.567 | -24.332 | 0.61110 |
| KJs, two-tone | 62.600 | 62.567 | +0.033 | 1.00053 |
| KJs, monotone | 60.473 | 62.567 | -2.094 | 0.96653 |
| KJs, paired | 65.695 | 62.567 | +3.128 | 1.04999 |
| 43s, all flops | 36.685 | 38.642 | -1.957 | 0.94936 |
| 43s, rainbow, ten or higher | 29.934 | 38.642 | -8.708 | 0.77465 |
| 43s, rainbow, nine or lower | 61.765 | 38.642 | +23.123 | 1.59839 |
| 43s, two-tone | 37.400 | 38.642 | -1.242 | 0.96786 |
| 43s, monotone | 39.527 | 38.642 | +0.885 | 1.02290 |
| 43s, paired | 34.305 | 38.642 | -4.337 | 0.88776 |
Does a shared suit matter?
When the hands share a suit, KJs holds 65.65%; when they do not, it holds 62.54%. KJs does better with a shared suit, by 3.11 points.
| Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | KJs wins | Ties | 43s wins | KJs equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Share a suit | 4 | 25.00 | 65.221 | 0.851 | 33.928 | 65.647 |
| No shared suit | 12 | 75.00 | 62.169 | 0.736 | 37.095 | 62.537 |
How often this matchup comes up
Counting specific cards, KJs against 43s appears in 16 of the 1,624,350 ordered heads-up deals (0.0010%), and in 32 when the seats are swapped too (0.0020%).
A worked example
Put $100 each into a $200 pot and deal every board once: KJs averages $126.64 back, ahead of its $100 by $26.64, while 43s averages $73.36, short of its $100 by $26.64.
Per 1,000 deals: KJs wins about 629, 43s wins about 363, and about 8 end in a split pot.
The same matchup from the other side
43s versus KJs is this same page seen from the other hand: 36.68% for 43s, 63.32% for KJs.
Keep exploring
Try KsJs against 4h3h 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.
How this was computed
Each figure is a complete count over boards. Take the 16 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.
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