--- title: "KJs vs QJo: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjs-vs-qjo.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjs-vs-qjo" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "KJs is a big favorite over QJo before the flop: 74.85% to 25.15% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjs-vs-k9o.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjs-vs-q9s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a8s-vs-qjo.md"] --- # KJs vs QJo: preflop equity KJs is a big favorite over QJo before the flop: 74.85% to 25.15% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. In equity, KJs against QJo stands at 74.85% to 25.15%, a gap of 49.70 points. ## KJs against QJo: the numbers **Exact preflop results for KJs against QJo, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KJs | 73.634 | 2.428 | 23.938 | 74.848 | | QJo | 23.938 | 2.428 | 73.634 | 25.152 | The first hand is a suited hand; the second is an offsuit hand. The two hands share a rank, and the one with the better other card dominates: it wins most kicker battles when that shared rank hits. That is a clear edge, 74.85% to 25.15%, but QJo still wins often enough that one hand proves nothing. 2.43% of boards are ties, so the equity of each hand is its win rate plus half of that. By strength against a random hand, KJs holds place 20 of 169 and QJo holds place 39. **Boards behind the percentages: 61,642,944 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KJs | 45,390,000 | 1,497,000 | 14,756,000 | | QJo | 14,756,000 | 1,497,000 | 45,390,000 | 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 QJo 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 | 2.976 | 1.358 | 4.177 | 0.336 | | QJo | 0.336 | 4.177 | 1.358 | 2.976 | The final column gives the least the pot must offer for each unit called for a call to break even at this equity. ## Who is ahead on which flops By flop texture, KJs' equity runs from 66.96% on monotone flops up to 85.37% 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 QJo by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | KJs wins | Ties | QJo wins | KJs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.177 | 70.029 | 2.251 | 27.720 | 71.155 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.771 | 84.764 | 1.210 | 14.026 | 85.369 | | Two-tone | 46.527 | 73.852 | 1.886 | 24.262 | 74.795 | | Monotone | 5.192 | 65.234 | 3.454 | 31.312 | 66.961 | | Paired | 17.333 | 75.397 | 4.356 | 20.247 | 77.575 | 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 Compared with a random opponent, this matchup shifts KJs from 62.57% by +12.28 points and QJo from 58.14% by -32.99 points. **KJs and QJo 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 | 74.848 | 62.567 | +12.281 | 1.19629 | | KJs, rainbow, ten or higher | 71.155 | 62.567 | +8.588 | 1.13726 | | KJs, rainbow, nine or lower | 85.369 | 62.567 | +22.802 | 1.36444 | | KJs, two-tone | 74.795 | 62.567 | +12.228 | 1.19544 | | KJs, monotone | 66.961 | 62.567 | +4.394 | 1.07023 | | KJs, paired | 77.575 | 62.567 | +15.008 | 1.23987 | | QJo, all flops | 25.152 | 58.135 | -32.983 | 0.43265 | | QJo, rainbow, ten or higher | 28.845 | 58.135 | -29.290 | 0.49617 | | QJo, rainbow, nine or lower | 14.631 | 58.135 | -43.504 | 0.25167 | | QJo, two-tone | 25.205 | 58.135 | -32.930 | 0.43356 | | QJo, monotone | 33.039 | 58.135 | -25.096 | 0.56832 | | QJo, paired | 22.425 | 58.135 | -35.710 | 0.38574 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Two kinds of deal exist here. In 12 of them the hands share a suit and KJs holds 74.66%. In 24 they do not, and it holds 74.94%. KJs does better with no shared suit, by 0.28 points. **KJs against QJo by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | KJs wins | Ties | QJo wins | KJs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 12 | 33.33 | 73.402 | 2.508 | 24.090 | 74.656 | | No shared suit | 24 | 66.67 | 73.751 | 2.387 | 23.862 | 74.944 | ## How often this matchup comes up Counting specific cards, KJs against QJo appears in 36 of the 1,624,350 ordered heads-up deals (0.0022%), and in 72 when the seats are swapped too (0.0044%). ## A worked example A $100 all-in from each player makes a $200 pot, and the exact equity says KJs gets $149.70 of it on average and QJo gets $50.30. Scaled to 1,000 deals, that is roughly 736 wins for KJs, 240 for QJo and 24 chopped pots. ## The same matchup from the other side The mirror image, QJo against KJs, is 25.15% to 74.85%, and its address redirects to this page. ## Keep exploring KsJs against QhJd 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 QhJd in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=KsJs&p2=QhJd) - [KJs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/kjs.md) - [QJo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/qjo.md) - [KJs vs K9o](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjs-vs-k9o.md) - [KJs vs Q9s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjs-vs-q9s.md) - [A8s vs QJo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a8s-vs-qjo.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed All 1,712,304 five-card boards are dealt for every suit pattern among the 36 specific deals of KJs against QJo, and both hands are scored on each. That is a full count, so the percentages are exact. Ties are half a win each, and each board appears once per flop it contains. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [KJs vs K9o: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjs-vs-k9o.md) - [KJs vs Q9s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjs-vs-q9s.md) - [A8s vs QJo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a8s-vs-qjo.md)