KK
79.15%
Wins 78.95%, ties 0.41%
64s
20.85%
Wins 20.64%, ties 0.41%
KK against 64s: the numbers
| Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KK | 78.945 | 0.414 | 20.641 | 79.152 |
| 64s | 20.641 | 0.414 | 78.945 | 20.848 |
Here a pocket pair (KK) meets a suited hand (64s). The pair outranks both of the other hand's cards, which is why the pair is a strong favorite.
KK is well ahead, and 64s needs a specific kind of board to catch up. Ties are part of the picture: 0.41% of boards end in a split pot, and each side counts that as half a win.
KK ranks number 2 of 169 starting hands, and 64s ranks number 138, by equity against a random hand.
| Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about |
|---|---|---|---|
| KK | 32,443,000 | 170,000 | 8,482,000 |
| 64s | 8,482,000 | 170,000 | 32,443,000 |
The total is exact: 24 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.
| Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KK | 3.797 | 1.267 | 4.845 | 0.263 |
| 64s | 0.263 | 4.845 | 1.267 | 3.797 |
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
Break the boards down by their first three cards and KK is strongest on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better (84.93%) and weakest on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) (64.26%). KK stays ahead on all five textures, but the swing between them is large, so how the flop looks matters a great deal.
| Flop | Share of flops | KK wins | Ties | 64s wins | KK equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rainbow, ten or higher | 24.595 | 84.832 | 0.205 | 14.963 | 84.934 |
| Rainbow, nine or lower | 6.314 | 63.776 | 0.971 | 35.253 | 64.261 |
| Two-tone | 46.545 | 77.073 | 0.339 | 22.588 | 77.243 |
| Monotone | 5.212 | 72.616 | 2.458 | 24.926 | 73.845 |
| Paired | 17.334 | 83.047 | 0.092 | 16.861 | 83.093 |
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 KK from 82.40% by -3.25 points and 64s from 41.33% by -20.48 points.
| Case | Equity here | Against a random hand | Change in points | Times the random-hand equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KK, all flops | 79.152 | 82.396 | -3.244 | 0.96063 |
| KK, rainbow, ten or higher | 84.934 | 82.396 | +2.538 | 1.03080 |
| KK, rainbow, nine or lower | 64.261 | 82.396 | -18.135 | 0.77990 |
| KK, two-tone | 77.243 | 82.396 | -5.153 | 0.93746 |
| KK, monotone | 73.845 | 82.396 | -8.551 | 0.89622 |
| KK, paired | 83.093 | 82.396 | +0.697 | 1.00846 |
| 64s, all flops | 20.848 | 41.333 | -20.485 | 0.50439 |
| 64s, rainbow, ten or higher | 15.066 | 41.333 | -26.267 | 0.36450 |
| 64s, rainbow, nine or lower | 35.739 | 41.333 | -5.594 | 0.86466 |
| 64s, two-tone | 22.757 | 41.333 | -18.576 | 0.55058 |
| 64s, monotone | 26.155 | 41.333 | -15.178 | 0.63279 |
| 64s, paired | 16.907 | 41.333 | -24.426 | 0.40904 |
Does a shared suit matter?
Split by suits, the deals give KK 79.74% when the hands overlap in a suit and 78.57% when they do not. KK does better with a shared suit, by 1.17 points.
| Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | KK wins | Ties | 64s wins | KK equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Share a suit | 12 | 50.00 | 79.507 | 0.455 | 20.038 | 79.735 |
| No shared suit | 12 | 50.00 | 78.383 | 0.372 | 21.245 | 78.569 |
How often this matchup comes up
Exactly 24 specific deals fit this matchup in one seat order, which is 0.0015% of 1,624,350; both orders together give 48, or 0.0030%.
A worked example
Take a $200 pot built from $100 each. KK's equity of 79.15% is worth $158.30, a $58.30 edge, and 64s' 20.85% is worth $41.70, which is $58.30 under its stake.
In 1,000 deals of exactly this matchup, expect about 790 won outright by KK, about 206 won outright by 64s and about 4 split.
The same matchup from the other side
64s against KK adds nothing new: it is 20.85% for 64s and 79.15% for KK, the same figures reversed.
Keep exploring
The calculator link fills in KsKh against 6d4d, 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.
How this was computed
This is an exact count with no sampling. For the 24 ways to deal one KK and one 64s 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.
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