KJs
42.83%
Wins 42.57%, ties 0.52%
A5s
57.17%
Wins 56.91%, ties 0.52%
KJs against A5s: the numbers
| Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KJs | 42.571 | 0.522 | 56.907 | 42.832 |
| A5s | 56.907 | 0.522 | 42.571 | 57.168 |
KJs meets A5s, and both are suited hands. The two hands share no rank, which makes this a pure matchup of card strength, straight chances and flush chances.
A 14.34 point lead is real, and KJs still takes about 426 of every 1,000 deals outright. About 0.52% 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 A5s holds place 30.
| Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about |
|---|---|---|---|
| KJs | 11,663,000 | 143,000 | 15,591,000 |
| A5s | 15,591,000 | 143,000 | 11,663,000 |
16 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.
| Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KJs | 0.749 | 2.349 | 1.757 | 1.335 |
| A5s | 1.335 | 1.757 | 2.349 | 0.749 |
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
Split by what the flop looks like, A5s peaks at 75.35% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) and bottoms out at 50.95% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better. A5s stays ahead on all five textures, but the swing between them is large, so how the flop looks matters a great deal.
| Flop | Share of flops | KJs wins | Ties | A5s wins | KJs equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.867 | 48.985 | 0.124 | 50.891 | 49.047 |
| Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.042 | 24.162 | 0.983 | 74.855 | 24.653 |
| Two-tone | 46.727 | 43.857 | 0.287 | 55.856 | 44.000 |
| Monotone | 5.273 | 43.691 | 3.437 | 52.872 | 45.409 |
| Paired | 17.091 | 37.339 | 0.629 | 62.032 | 37.654 |
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
Each hand has a baseline against a random hand: 62.57% for KJs, 59.92% for A5s. Here the change is -19.74 and -2.75 points.
| Case | Equity here | Against a random hand | Change in points | Times the random-hand equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KJs, all flops | 42.832 | 62.567 | -19.735 | 0.68458 |
| KJs, rainbow, ten or higher | 49.047 | 62.567 | -13.520 | 0.78391 |
| KJs, rainbow, nine or lower | 24.653 | 62.567 | -37.914 | 0.39403 |
| KJs, two-tone | 44.000 | 62.567 | -18.567 | 0.70325 |
| KJs, monotone | 45.409 | 62.567 | -17.158 | 0.72577 |
| KJs, paired | 37.654 | 62.567 | -24.913 | 0.60182 |
| A5s, all flops | 57.168 | 59.923 | -2.755 | 0.95402 |
| A5s, rainbow, ten or higher | 50.953 | 59.923 | -8.970 | 0.85031 |
| A5s, rainbow, nine or lower | 75.347 | 59.923 | +15.424 | 1.25740 |
| A5s, two-tone | 56.000 | 59.923 | -3.923 | 0.93453 |
| A5s, monotone | 54.591 | 59.923 | -5.332 | 0.91102 |
| A5s, paired | 62.346 | 59.923 | +2.423 | 1.04044 |
Does a shared suit matter?
Split by suits, the deals give A5s 59.08% when the hands overlap in a suit and 56.53% when they do not. A5s does better with a shared suit, by 2.55 points.
| Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | KJs wins | Ties | A5s wins | KJs equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Share a suit | 4 | 25.00 | 40.619 | 0.603 | 58.778 | 40.921 |
| No shared suit | 12 | 75.00 | 43.222 | 0.494 | 56.284 | 43.469 |
How often this matchup comes up
KJs against A5s is made up of 16 specific-card matchups in one seat order, 0.0010% of the 1,624,350 ordered deals, and 32 counting both seat orders, 0.0020%.
A worked example
Worked example: both players commit $100, so $200 sits in the middle. Over every board, A5s' average share is $114.34 (a gain of $14.34) and KJs' is $85.66 (a loss of $14.34).
Think in thousands: about 569 of 1,000 go to A5s, about 426 go to KJs, and about 5 are chopped.
The same matchup from the other side
One page covers both views. From A5s' side the equity is 57.17%, and from KJs' side it is 42.83%.
Keep exploring
Try KsJs against Ah5h 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
The figures are counted, not estimated: 1,712,304 boards for every suit pattern of the 16 specific deals, with both seven-card hands compared each time. Equity gives half a win for a tie. For the flop rows, a board is counted once under each of the ten flops inside it.
Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used.
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