--- title: "KK vs KQs: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-kqs.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-kqs" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "KK is a big favorite over KQs before the flop: 86.13% to 13.87% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-66.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-a9s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-kqs.md"] --- # KK vs KQs: preflop equity KK is a big favorite over KQs before the flop: 86.13% to 13.87% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Counting every board, the equity split is 86.13% for KK and 13.87% for KQs, so KK leads by 72.26 points. ## KK against KQs: the numbers **Exact preflop results for KK against KQs, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KK | 85.537 | 1.189 | 13.274 | 86.132 | | KQs | 13.274 | 1.189 | 85.537 | 13.868 | KK and KQs are a pocket pair and a suited hand, in that order. The pair already holds one of the other hand's ranks, and that overlap cuts down the cards the other hand can pair with. That is a heavy lead: KQs needs the board to help it on most runouts and still falls behind far more often than not. Ties are 1.19% of the outcomes here; each tied board gives both hands half the pot. By strength against a random hand, KK holds place 2 of 169 and KQs holds place 16. **Boards behind the percentages: 20,547,648 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KK | 17,576,000 | 244,000 | 2,727,000 | | KQs | 2,727,000 | 244,000 | 17,576,000 | 12 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. **KK against KQs 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 | 6.211 | 1.169 | 7.534 | 0.161 | | KQs | 0.161 | 7.534 | 1.169 | 6.211 | 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, KK's equity runs from 76.46% on monotone flops up to 95.05% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower). 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 KQs by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | KK wins | Ties | KQs wins | KK equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.011 | 86.884 | 1.359 | 11.757 | 87.564 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.771 | 94.390 | 1.320 | 4.290 | 95.050 | | Two-tone | 46.236 | 83.996 | 1.234 | 14.770 | 84.613 | | Monotone | 5.151 | 75.310 | 2.306 | 22.384 | 76.463 | | Paired | 17.831 | 86.893 | 0.474 | 12.633 | 87.130 | Read the flop types this way: rainbow has three suits, two-tone has two cards of one suit, monotone has three, and paired repeats a rank. ## Compared with a random hand Relative to a random opponent, KK changes by +3.73 points (baseline 82.40%) and KQs by -49.53 points (baseline 63.40%). **KK and KQs 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 | 86.132 | 82.396 | +3.736 | 1.04534 | | KK, rainbow, ten or higher | 87.564 | 82.396 | +5.168 | 1.06272 | | KK, rainbow, nine or lower | 95.050 | 82.396 | +12.654 | 1.15358 | | KK, two-tone | 84.613 | 82.396 | +2.217 | 1.02691 | | KK, monotone | 76.463 | 82.396 | -5.933 | 0.92799 | | KK, paired | 87.130 | 82.396 | +4.734 | 1.05745 | | KQs, all flops | 13.868 | 63.400 | -49.532 | 0.21874 | | KQs, rainbow, ten or higher | 12.436 | 63.400 | -50.964 | 0.19615 | | KQs, rainbow, nine or lower | 4.950 | 63.400 | -58.450 | 0.07808 | | KQs, two-tone | 15.387 | 63.400 | -48.013 | 0.24270 | | KQs, monotone | 23.537 | 63.400 | -39.863 | 0.37125 | | KQs, paired | 12.870 | 63.400 | -50.530 | 0.20300 | ## Does a shared suit matter? There is no shared-suit case for this pair, since the cards they would need are already in the other hand. Every deal is a no-shared-suit deal. **KK against KQs by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | KK wins | Ties | KQs wins | KK equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 0 | 0.00 | not possible | not possible | not possible | not possible | | No shared suit | 12 | 100.00 | 85.537 | 1.189 | 13.274 | 86.132 | ## How often this matchup comes up This page stands for 12 specific-card matchups (0.0007% of 1,624,350 ordered deals), or 24 once you count the seats both ways (0.0015%). ## A worked example With $100 from each side, the $200 pot is split on average as $172.26 for KK and $27.74 for KQs; the first side gains $72.26 per all-in and the second gives up $72.26. Think in thousands: about 855 of 1,000 go to KK, about 133 go to KQs, and about 12 are chopped. ## The same matchup from the other side KQs against KK adds nothing new: it is 13.87% for KQs and 86.13% for KK, the same figures reversed. ## Keep exploring KsKh against KdQd 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 KdQd in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=KsKh&p2=KdQd) - [KK combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/kk.md) - [KQs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/kqs.md) - [KK vs 66](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-66.md) - [KK vs A9s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-a9s.md) - [QQ vs KQs](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-kqs.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed This is an exact count with no sampling. For the 12 ways to deal one KK and one KQs 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 - [KK vs 66: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-66.md) - [KK vs A9s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-a9s.md) - [QQ vs KQs: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-kqs.md)