--- title: "KJs vs KTo: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjs-vs-kto.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjs-vs-kto" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "KJs is a big favorite over KTo before the flop: 73.94% to 26.06% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjs-vs-qts.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjs-vs-a4s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a8s-vs-kto.md"] --- # KJs vs KTo: preflop equity KJs is a big favorite over KTo before the flop: 73.94% to 26.06% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Over all 1,712,304 boards that can follow this deal, KJs finishes with 73.94% of the pot and KTo with 26.06%. ## KJs against KTo: the numbers **Exact preflop results for KJs against KTo, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KJs | 70.192 | 7.503 | 22.305 | 73.943 | | KTo | 22.305 | 7.503 | 70.192 | 26.057 | We compare a suited hand with 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 47.88 points is large but not decisive: KTo still takes about 223 of every 1,000 deals. Ties are part of the picture: 7.50% of boards end in a split pot, and each side counts that as half a win. Place 20 of 169 belongs to KJs and place 33 belongs to KTo in the ranking against a random hand. **Boards behind the percentages: 61,642,944 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KJs | 43,268,000 | 4,625,000 | 13,749,000 | | KTo | 13,749,000 | 4,625,000 | 43,268,000 | 36 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. **KJs against KTo 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 | 2.838 | 1.425 | 4.483 | 0.352 | | KTo | 0.352 | 4.483 | 1.425 | 2.838 | The last column is the smallest pot odds, written as a pot-to-call ratio, at which a call breaks even with this equity. ## Who is ahead on which flops Split by what the flop looks like, KJs peaks at 84.82% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) and bottoms out at 66.88% on monotone flops. KJs stays ahead on all five textures, but the swing between them is large, so how the flop looks matters a great deal. **KJs against KTo by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | KJs wins | Ties | KTo wins | KJs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.177 | 68.775 | 5.752 | 25.473 | 71.651 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.771 | 83.020 | 3.603 | 13.377 | 84.822 | | Two-tone | 46.527 | 72.444 | 4.956 | 22.600 | 74.922 | | Monotone | 5.192 | 63.925 | 5.900 | 30.175 | 66.875 | | Paired | 17.333 | 62.166 | 18.911 | 18.923 | 71.621 | 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 The table below sets each hand against its own random-hand baseline: a change of +11.37 points for KJs, from 62.57%, and -33.68 for KTo, from 59.74%. **KJs and KTo 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 | 73.943 | 62.567 | +11.376 | 1.18182 | | KJs, rainbow, ten or higher | 71.651 | 62.567 | +9.084 | 1.14519 | | KJs, rainbow, nine or lower | 84.822 | 62.567 | +22.255 | 1.35570 | | KJs, two-tone | 74.922 | 62.567 | +12.355 | 1.19747 | | KJs, monotone | 66.875 | 62.567 | +4.308 | 1.06885 | | KJs, paired | 71.621 | 62.567 | +9.054 | 1.14471 | | KTo, all flops | 26.057 | 59.739 | -33.682 | 0.43618 | | KTo, rainbow, ten or higher | 28.349 | 59.739 | -31.390 | 0.47455 | | KTo, rainbow, nine or lower | 15.178 | 59.739 | -44.561 | 0.25407 | | KTo, two-tone | 25.078 | 59.739 | -34.661 | 0.41979 | | KTo, monotone | 33.125 | 59.739 | -26.614 | 0.55450 | | KTo, paired | 28.379 | 59.739 | -31.360 | 0.47505 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Split by suits, the deals give KJs 73.77% when the hands overlap in a suit and 74.03% when they do not. KJs does better with no shared suit, by 0.26 points. **KJs against KTo by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | KJs wins | Ties | KTo wins | KJs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 12 | 33.33 | 69.972 | 7.601 | 22.427 | 73.773 | | No shared suit | 24 | 66.67 | 70.301 | 7.455 | 22.244 | 74.029 | ## How often this matchup comes up This page stands for 36 specific-card matchups (0.0022% of 1,624,350 ordered deals), or 72 once you count the seats both ways (0.0044%). ## A worked example To see what the equity is worth, imagine $100 each in a $200 pot. KJs is worth $147.88 on average (+$47.88); KTo is worth $52.12 (-$47.88). Scaled to 1,000 deals, that is roughly 702 wins for KJs, 223 for KTo and 75 chopped pots. ## The same matchup from the other side KTo against KJs adds nothing new: it is 26.06% for KTo and 73.94% for KJs, the same figures reversed. ## Keep exploring The calculator link fills in KsJs against KhTd, 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 KhTd in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=KsJs&p2=KhTd) - [KJs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/kjs.md) - [KTo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/kto.md) - [KJs vs QTs](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjs-vs-qts.md) - [KJs vs A4s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjs-vs-a4s.md) - [A8s vs KTo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a8s-vs-kto.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed Method: exact enumeration. The 36 specific deals are grouped by suit pattern, each is run against all 1,712,304 boards, and both seven-card hands are scored. Equity adds half of every tie, and flop textures are tallied over the ten flops inside each board. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [KJs vs QTs: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjs-vs-qts.md) - [KJs vs A4s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjs-vs-a4s.md) - [A8s vs KTo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a8s-vs-kto.md)