--- title: "KJs vs KTs: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjs-vs-kts.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjs-vs-kts" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "KJs is a big favorite over KTs before the flop: 69.91% to 30.10% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjs-vs-kqo.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjs-vs-a7s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a8s-vs-kts.md"] --- # KJs vs KTs: preflop equity KJs is a big favorite over KTs before the flop: 69.91% to 30.10% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Counting every board, the equity split is 69.91% for KJs and 30.09% for KTs, so KJs leads by 39.82 points. ## KJs against KTs: the numbers **Exact preflop results for KJs against KTs, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KJs | 66.324 | 7.163 | 26.513 | 69.905 | | KTs | 26.513 | 7.163 | 66.324 | 30.095 | Here suited hands face each other, KJs on one side and KTs on the other. 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. KJs is well ahead, and KTs needs a specific kind of board to catch up. About 7.16% of boards chop the pot, which is why equity sits slightly above the win figure for both hands. For context, KJs sits at number 20 of 169 starting hands and KTs at number 22 when each is run 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 | 13,628,000 | 1,472,000 | 5,448,000 | | KTs | 5,448,000 | 1,472,000 | 13,628,000 | The total is exact: 12 specific deals times 1,712,304 boards. The three counts are approximate, worked out from the percentages to five decimals and rounded to the nearest thousand. **KJs against KTs 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 | 2.323 | 1.508 | 3.772 | 0.431 | | KTs | 0.431 | 3.772 | 1.508 | 2.323 | 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 By flop texture, KJs' equity runs from 63.82% on monotone flops up to 81.82% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower). 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 KTs by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | KJs wins | Ties | KTs wins | KJs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.138 | 66.656 | 5.624 | 27.720 | 69.468 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.771 | 80.076 | 3.481 | 16.443 | 81.816 | | Two-tone | 46.543 | 67.277 | 4.630 | 28.093 | 69.592 | | Monotone | 5.215 | 60.679 | 6.285 | 33.036 | 63.822 | | Paired | 17.333 | 58.854 | 17.934 | 23.212 | 67.821 | 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 A random hand would give KJs 62.57% and KTs 61.79%. Against each other the change is +7.34 points for KJs and -31.70 for KTs. **KJs and KTs 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 | 69.905 | 62.567 | +7.338 | 1.11728 | | KJs, rainbow, ten or higher | 69.468 | 62.567 | +6.901 | 1.11030 | | KJs, rainbow, nine or lower | 81.816 | 62.567 | +19.249 | 1.30765 | | KJs, two-tone | 69.592 | 62.567 | +7.025 | 1.11228 | | KJs, monotone | 63.822 | 62.567 | +1.255 | 1.02006 | | KJs, paired | 67.821 | 62.567 | +5.254 | 1.08397 | | KTs, all flops | 30.095 | 61.789 | -31.694 | 0.48706 | | KTs, rainbow, ten or higher | 30.532 | 61.789 | -31.257 | 0.49413 | | KTs, rainbow, nine or lower | 18.184 | 61.789 | -43.605 | 0.29429 | | KTs, two-tone | 30.408 | 61.789 | -31.381 | 0.49213 | | KTs, monotone | 36.178 | 61.789 | -25.611 | 0.58551 | | KTs, paired | 32.179 | 61.789 | -29.610 | 0.52079 | ## Does a shared suit matter? KJs and KTs never overlap in suit in a legal deal, so the whole matchup sits in the no-shared-suit row. **KJs against KTs by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | KJs wins | Ties | KTs wins | KJs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 0 | 0.00 | not possible | not possible | not possible | not possible | | No shared suit | 12 | 100.00 | 66.324 | 7.163 | 26.513 | 69.905 | ## 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 Worked example: both players commit $100, so $200 sits in the middle. Over every board, KJs' average share is $139.82 (a gain of $39.82) and KTs' is $60.18 (a loss of $39.82). In 1,000 deals of exactly this matchup, expect about 663 won outright by KJs, about 265 won outright by KTs and about 72 split. ## The same matchup from the other side If you came looking for KTs against KJs, the numbers are the same with the hands swapped: 30.09% and 69.91%. ## Keep exploring Try KsJs against KhTh 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. - [Open KsJs against KhTh in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=KsJs&p2=KhTh) - [KJs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/kjs.md) - [KTs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/kts.md) - [KJs vs KQo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjs-vs-kqo.md) - [KJs vs A7s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjs-vs-a7s.md) - [A8s vs KTs](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a8s-vs-kts.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 KTs 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 KQo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjs-vs-kqo.md) - [KJs vs A7s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjs-vs-a7s.md) - [A8s vs KTs: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a8s-vs-kts.md)