--- title: "KJs vs JTs: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjs-vs-jts.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjs-vs-jts" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "KJs is a big favorite over JTs before the flop: 69.38% to 30.63% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjs-vs-a2s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjs-vs-qto.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a8s-vs-jts.md"] --- # KJs vs JTs: preflop equity KJs is a big favorite over JTs before the flop: 69.38% to 30.63% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Averaged over every possible board, KJs is ahead of JTs by 38.76 points of equity, 69.38% to 30.62%. ## KJs against JTs: the numbers **Exact preflop results for KJs against JTs, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KJs | 68.030 | 2.690 | 29.280 | 69.375 | | JTs | 29.280 | 2.690 | 68.030 | 30.625 | Two suited hands meet here: KJs against JTs. Sharing a rank is the signature of a dominated hand, since the weaker hand is usually out-kicked when the shared rank shows up. KJs is the clear favorite, though JTs gets there on roughly one board in 3. Split pots make up 2.69% of the boards, and both equity figures count them as half a win each. Place 20 of 169 belongs to KJs and place 45 belongs to JTs in the ranking against a random hand. **Boards behind the percentages: 20,547,648 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KJs | 13,979,000 | 553,000 | 6,016,000 | | JTs | 6,016,000 | 553,000 | 13,979,000 | The board total is exact, 12 deals at 1,712,304 boards each. Won, tied and lost counts are rounded to the nearest thousand from the five-decimal percentages. **KJs against JTs read as odds** | Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KJs | 2.265 | 1.470 | 3.415 | 0.441 | | JTs | 0.441 | 3.415 | 1.470 | 2.265 | 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 If you know the kind of flop that came, the numbers shift: KJs holds 77.20% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) and 62.83% on monotone flops. KJs stays ahead on all five textures. **KJs against JTs by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | KJs wins | Ties | JTs wins | KJs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.138 | 67.128 | 2.606 | 30.266 | 68.431 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.771 | 76.507 | 1.394 | 22.099 | 77.204 | | Two-tone | 46.543 | 67.001 | 2.086 | 30.913 | 68.044 | | Monotone | 5.215 | 60.546 | 4.572 | 34.882 | 62.832 | | Paired | 17.333 | 70.452 | 4.437 | 25.111 | 72.670 | 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 The table below sets each hand against its own random-hand baseline: a change of +6.81 points for KJs, from 62.57%, and -26.91 for JTs, from 57.53%. **KJs and JTs 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KJs, all flops | 69.375 | 62.567 | +6.808 | 1.10881 | | KJs, rainbow, ten or higher | 68.431 | 62.567 | +5.864 | 1.09372 | | KJs, rainbow, nine or lower | 77.204 | 62.567 | +14.637 | 1.23394 | | KJs, two-tone | 68.044 | 62.567 | +5.477 | 1.08754 | | KJs, monotone | 62.832 | 62.567 | +0.265 | 1.00424 | | KJs, paired | 72.670 | 62.567 | +10.103 | 1.16147 | | JTs, all flops | 30.625 | 57.528 | -26.903 | 0.53235 | | JTs, rainbow, ten or higher | 31.569 | 57.528 | -25.959 | 0.54876 | | JTs, rainbow, nine or lower | 22.796 | 57.528 | -34.732 | 0.39626 | | JTs, two-tone | 31.956 | 57.528 | -25.572 | 0.55549 | | JTs, monotone | 37.168 | 57.528 | -20.360 | 0.64609 | | JTs, paired | 27.330 | 57.528 | -30.198 | 0.47507 | ## Does a shared suit matter? A shared suit is impossible for this matchup, so KJs' 69.38% is the answer for every suit pattern. **KJs against JTs by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | KJs wins | Ties | JTs wins | KJs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 0 | 0.00 | not possible | not possible | not possible | not possible | | No shared suit | 12 | 100.00 | 68.030 | 2.690 | 29.280 | 69.375 | ## How often this matchup comes up You will meet this exact matchup 0.0015% of the time in a random heads-up deal: 24 of 1,624,350, counting either seat order. ## A worked example Say each player puts $100 in before the flop, making a $200 pot. On average KJs takes back $138.76 of it, which is $38.76 more than it put in, and JTs takes back $61.24, $38.76 less than it put in. Run 1,000 deals and the tally comes out near 680 for KJs, 293 for JTs and 27 ties. ## The same matchup from the other side If you came looking for JTs against KJs, the numbers are the same with the hands swapped: 30.62% and 69.38%. ## Keep exploring KsJs against JhTh 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 KsJs against JhTh in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=KsJs&p2=JhTh) - [KJs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/kjs.md) - [JTs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/jts.md) - [KJs vs A2s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjs-vs-a2s.md) - [KJs vs QTo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjs-vs-qto.md) - [A8s vs JTs](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a8s-vs-jts.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed We counted every case. Each suit pattern of the 12 specific KJs against JTs deals meets all 1,712,304 boards, and the better five-card hand wins; a split pot is half a win each. The flop table reads each board under all ten of its three-card flops. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [KJs vs A2s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjs-vs-a2s.md) - [KJs vs QTo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjs-vs-qto.md) - [A8s vs JTs: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a8s-vs-jts.md)