--- title: "KJs vs QTo: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjs-vs-qto.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjs-vs-qto" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "KJs is a big favorite over QTo before the flop: 64.43% to 35.57% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjs-vs-44.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjs-vs-j9s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a8s-vs-qto.md"] --- # KJs vs QTo: preflop equity KJs is a big favorite over QTo before the flop: 64.43% to 35.57% 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 64.43% of the pot and QTo with 35.57%. ## KJs against QTo: the numbers **Exact preflop results for KJs against QTo, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KJs | 64.086 | 0.687 | 35.227 | 64.429 | | QTo | 35.227 | 0.687 | 64.086 | 35.571 | One side is a suited hand, the other is an offsuit hand. With no overlap in ranks, every card that pairs one hand is a card that does not pair the other. KJs is ahead, but QTo is far from dead: it takes 352 of every 1,000 deals outright. Ties are 0.69% of the outcomes here; each tied board gives both hands half the pot. By strength against a random hand, KJs holds place 20 of 169 and QTo holds place 47. **Boards behind the percentages: 82,190,592 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KJs | 52,673,000 | 565,000 | 28,953,000 | | QTo | 28,953,000 | 565,000 | 52,673,000 | Exact total: 48 deals times 1,712,304 boards. The other three counts come from the five-decimal percentages and are rounded to the nearest thousand, so read them as approximate. **KJs against QTo 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 | 1.811 | 1.560 | 2.839 | 0.552 | | QTo | 0.552 | 2.839 | 1.560 | 1.811 | 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 KJs prefers low rainbow flops (nine high or lower), where it holds 75.09%, and likes rainbow flops topped by a ten or better least, where it holds 59.56%. 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 QTo by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | KJs wins | Ties | QTo wins | KJs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.260 | 59.425 | 0.262 | 40.313 | 59.556 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.770 | 74.619 | 0.935 | 24.446 | 75.086 | | Two-tone | 46.667 | 64.244 | 0.396 | 35.360 | 64.442 | | Monotone | 5.212 | 58.851 | 2.463 | 38.686 | 60.082 | | Paired | 17.091 | 66.808 | 1.402 | 31.790 | 67.509 | 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 Each hand has a baseline against a random hand: 62.57% for KJs, 57.29% for QTo. Here the change is +1.86 and -21.72 points. **KJs and QTo 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 | 64.429 | 62.567 | +1.862 | 1.02976 | | KJs, rainbow, ten or higher | 59.556 | 62.567 | -3.011 | 0.95188 | | KJs, rainbow, nine or lower | 75.086 | 62.567 | +12.519 | 1.20009 | | KJs, two-tone | 64.442 | 62.567 | +1.875 | 1.02997 | | KJs, monotone | 60.082 | 62.567 | -2.485 | 0.96028 | | KJs, paired | 67.509 | 62.567 | +4.942 | 1.07899 | | QTo, all flops | 35.571 | 57.291 | -21.720 | 0.62088 | | QTo, rainbow, ten or higher | 40.444 | 57.291 | -16.847 | 0.70594 | | QTo, rainbow, nine or lower | 24.914 | 57.291 | -32.377 | 0.43487 | | QTo, two-tone | 35.558 | 57.291 | -21.733 | 0.62066 | | QTo, monotone | 39.918 | 57.291 | -17.373 | 0.69676 | | QTo, paired | 32.491 | 57.291 | -24.800 | 0.56712 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Suit overlap shows up in the numbers. With a suit in common KJs has 64.22% equity, and with none in common it has 64.64%. KJs does better with no shared suit, by 0.42 points. **KJs against QTo by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | KJs wins | Ties | QTo wins | KJs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 24 | 50.00 | 63.854 | 0.726 | 35.420 | 64.217 | | No shared suit | 24 | 50.00 | 64.319 | 0.647 | 35.034 | 64.642 | ## How often this matchup comes up This page stands for 48 specific-card matchups (0.0030% of 1,624,350 ordered deals), or 96 once you count the seats both ways (0.0059%). ## A worked example Take a $200 pot built from $100 each. KJs' equity of 64.43% is worth $128.86, a $28.86 edge, and QTo's 35.57% is worth $71.14, which is $28.86 under its stake. Scaled to 1,000 deals, that is roughly 641 wins for KJs, 352 for QTo and 7 chopped pots. ## The same matchup from the other side The reversed view, QTo against KJs, shows 35.57% for QTo and 64.43% for KJs. It is the same count, so it redirects here. ## Keep exploring KsJs against QhTd 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 QhTd in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=KsJs&p2=QhTd) - [KJs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/kjs.md) - [QTo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/qto.md) - [KJs vs 44](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjs-vs-44.md) - [KJs vs J9s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjs-vs-j9s.md) - [A8s vs QTo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a8s-vs-qto.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed This is an exact count with no sampling. For the 48 ways to deal one KJs and one QTo without reusing a card, grouped by suit pattern, every one of the 1,712,304 possible boards is dealt and both seven-card hands are compared. A tie counts as half a win in the equity column, and each board is counted once under each of its ten three-card flops. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [KJs vs 44: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjs-vs-44.md) - [KJs vs J9s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjs-vs-j9s.md) - [A8s vs QTo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a8s-vs-qto.md)