--- title: "KJs vs KQo: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjs-vs-kqo.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjs-vs-kqo" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "KQo is a big favorite over KJs before the flop: 69.75% to 30.25% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjs-vs-a7s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjs-vs-a9o.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a8s-vs-kqo.md"] --- # KJs vs KQo: preflop equity KQo is a big favorite over KJs before the flop: 69.75% to 30.25% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. In equity, KQo against KJs stands at 69.75% to 30.25%, a gap of 39.50 points. ## KJs against KQo: the numbers **Exact preflop results for KJs against KQo, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KJs | 27.564 | 5.375 | 67.061 | 30.252 | | KQo | 67.061 | 5.375 | 27.564 | 69.748 | The matchup pits a suited hand against an offsuit hand. Because the hands share one rank, the one with the higher kicker is ahead when that rank pairs and the other hand is mostly drawing. A lead of 39.50 points is large but not decisive: KJs still takes about 276 of every 1,000 deals. Split pots make up 5.38% of the boards, and both equity figures count them as half a win each. In the ranking of all 169 starting hands, KJs is number 20 and KQo is number 23. **Boards behind the percentages: 61,642,944 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KJs | 16,991,000 | 3,313,000 | 41,338,000 | | KQo | 41,338,000 | 3,313,000 | 16,991,000 | The board total is exact, 36 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 KQo 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 | 0.434 | 3.628 | 1.491 | 2.306 | | KQo | 2.306 | 1.491 | 3.628 | 0.434 | 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 Low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) are the best for KQo (82.12%); monotone flops are the worst (64.50%). KQo stays ahead on all five textures, but the swing between them is large, so how the flop looks matters a great deal. **KJs against KQo by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | KJs wins | Ties | KQo wins | KJs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.177 | 28.866 | 3.312 | 67.822 | 30.522 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.771 | 15.949 | 3.862 | 80.189 | 17.880 | | Two-tone | 46.527 | 29.514 | 3.288 | 67.198 | 31.158 | | Monotone | 5.192 | 33.205 | 4.589 | 62.206 | 35.499 | | Paired | 17.333 | 24.107 | 14.648 | 61.245 | 31.431 | 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 Against one random hand instead, KJs holds 62.57% and KQo holds 61.46%. Facing each other changes that by -32.32 points for KJs and +8.29 points for KQo. **KJs and KQo 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 | 30.252 | 62.567 | -32.315 | 0.48351 | | KJs, rainbow, ten or higher | 30.522 | 62.567 | -32.045 | 0.48783 | | KJs, rainbow, nine or lower | 17.880 | 62.567 | -44.687 | 0.28577 | | KJs, two-tone | 31.158 | 62.567 | -31.409 | 0.49799 | | KJs, monotone | 35.499 | 62.567 | -27.068 | 0.56738 | | KJs, paired | 31.431 | 62.567 | -31.136 | 0.50236 | | KQo, all flops | 69.748 | 61.456 | +8.292 | 1.13493 | | KQo, rainbow, ten or higher | 69.478 | 61.456 | +8.022 | 1.13053 | | KQo, rainbow, nine or lower | 82.120 | 61.456 | +20.664 | 1.33624 | | KQo, two-tone | 68.842 | 61.456 | +7.386 | 1.12018 | | KQo, monotone | 64.501 | 61.456 | +3.045 | 1.04955 | | KQo, paired | 68.569 | 61.456 | +7.113 | 1.11574 | ## Does a shared suit matter? The suit split reads 70.47% for KQo with a shared suit and 69.39% without one. KQo does better with a shared suit, by 1.08 points. **KJs against KQo by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | KJs wins | Ties | KQo wins | KJs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 12 | 33.33 | 26.806 | 5.458 | 67.736 | 29.535 | | No shared suit | 24 | 66.67 | 27.944 | 5.333 | 66.723 | 30.610 | ## How often this matchup comes up The class pair covers 36 combinations of specific cards in a fixed seat order, 0.0022% of 1,624,350, and 72 (0.0044%) in either order. ## A worked example Take a $200 pot built from $100 each. KQo's equity of 69.75% is worth $139.50, a $39.50 edge, and KJs' 30.25% is worth $60.50, which is $39.50 under its stake. A thousand deals look like this: KQo takes 670, KJs takes 276, 54 are ties. ## The same matchup from the other side KQo against KJs adds nothing new: it is 69.75% for KQo and 30.25% for KJs, the same figures reversed. ## Keep exploring The calculator link fills in KsJs against KhQd, a deal where the two hands share no suit. Change any card to test your own hand. The neighboring matchups below swap one of the two hands for one of similar strength. - [Open KsJs against KhQd in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=KsJs&p2=KhQd) - [KJs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/kjs.md) - [KQo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/kqo.md) - [KJs vs A7s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjs-vs-a7s.md) - [KJs vs A9o](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjs-vs-a9o.md) - [A8s vs KQo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a8s-vs-kqo.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed The page is built from a full enumeration: 1,712,304 boards, every suit pattern of the 36 specific deals, both seven-card hands evaluated. A tie is worth half a win to each hand, and a board is tallied under each of its ten possible flops for the texture rows. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [KJs vs A7s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjs-vs-a7s.md) - [KJs vs A9o: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjs-vs-a9o.md) - [A8s vs KQo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a8s-vs-kqo.md)