--- title: "KK vs 44: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-44.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-44" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "KK is a big favorite over 44 before the flop: 80.92% to 19.08% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-j9s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-jto.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-44.md"] --- # KK vs 44: preflop equity KK is a big favorite over 44 before the flop: 80.92% to 19.08% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. In equity, KK against 44 stands at 80.92% to 19.08%, a gap of 61.84 points. ## KK against 44: the numbers **Exact preflop results for KK against 44, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KK | 80.699 | 0.451 | 18.850 | 80.924 | | 44 | 18.850 | 0.451 | 80.699 | 19.076 | The matchup is pocket pairs on both sides, KK against 44. Both hands are pairs, so the bigger pair is ahead on every board that does not pair a card below it. KK is a big favorite here before anyone sees a flop. The tie share is 0.45%: on those boards the pot is chopped and neither hand wins outright. For context, KK sits at number 2 of 169 starting hands and 44 at number 48 when each is run against a random hand. **Boards behind the percentages: 61,642,944 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KK | 49,745,000 | 278,000 | 11,620,000 | | 44 | 11,620,000 | 278,000 | 49,745,000 | 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. **KK against 44 read as odds** | Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KK | 4.242 | 1.239 | 5.305 | 0.236 | | 44 | 0.236 | 5.305 | 1.239 | 4.242 | 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 Break the boards down by their first three cards and KK is strongest on paired flops (86.75%) and weakest on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) (66.78%). KK stays ahead on all five textures, but the swing between them is large, so how the flop looks matters a great deal. **KK against 44 by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | KK wins | Ties | 44 wins | KK equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 24.595 | 83.653 | 0.255 | 16.092 | 83.781 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 6.314 | 66.210 | 1.137 | 32.653 | 66.779 | | Two-tone | 46.363 | 79.535 | 0.417 | 20.048 | 79.744 | | Monotone | 5.152 | 74.366 | 2.051 | 23.583 | 75.392 | | Paired | 17.576 | 86.695 | 0.100 | 13.205 | 86.745 | 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 Each hand has a baseline against a random hand: 82.40% for KK, 57.02% for 44. Here the change is -1.48 and -37.94 points. **KK and 44 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KK, all flops | 80.924 | 82.396 | -1.472 | 0.98214 | | KK, rainbow, ten or higher | 83.781 | 82.396 | +1.385 | 1.01681 | | KK, rainbow, nine or lower | 66.779 | 82.396 | -15.617 | 0.81046 | | KK, two-tone | 79.744 | 82.396 | -2.652 | 0.96781 | | KK, monotone | 75.392 | 82.396 | -7.004 | 0.91500 | | KK, paired | 86.745 | 82.396 | +4.349 | 1.05278 | | 44, all flops | 19.076 | 57.023 | -37.947 | 0.33453 | | 44, rainbow, ten or higher | 16.219 | 57.023 | -40.804 | 0.28443 | | 44, rainbow, nine or lower | 33.221 | 57.023 | -23.802 | 0.58259 | | 44, two-tone | 20.256 | 57.023 | -36.767 | 0.35523 | | 44, monotone | 24.608 | 57.023 | -32.415 | 0.43155 | | 44, paired | 13.255 | 57.023 | -43.768 | 0.23245 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Looking only at deals where the hands share a suit, KK has 81.06%; looking only at deals where they do not, 80.27%. KK does better with a shared suit, by 0.79 points. **KK against 44 by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | KK wins | Ties | 44 wins | KK equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 30 | 83.33 | 80.824 | 0.465 | 18.711 | 81.056 | | No shared suit | 6 | 16.67 | 80.073 | 0.384 | 19.543 | 80.265 | ## How often this matchup comes up How often does it happen? 36 of the 1,624,350 ordered deals (0.0022%) are KK against 44, and 72 (0.0044%) if either hand may sit in either seat. ## A worked example Worked example: both players commit $100, so $200 sits in the middle. Over every board, KK's average share is $161.84 (a gain of $61.84) and 44's is $38.16 (a loss of $61.84). Over a long run, 1,000 deals split into about 807 for KK, 188 for 44 and 5 tied. ## The same matchup from the other side The reversed view, 44 against KK, shows 19.08% for 44 and 80.92% for KK. It is the same count, so it redirects here. ## Keep exploring KsKh against 4d4c 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 KsKh against 4d4c in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=KsKh&p2=4d4c) - [KK combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/kk.md) - [44 combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/44.md) - [KK vs J9s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-j9s.md) - [KK vs JTo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-jto.md) - [QQ vs 44](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-44.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 - [KK vs J9s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-j9s.md) - [KK vs JTo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-jto.md) - [QQ vs 44: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-44.md)