--- title: "KK vs KTo: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-kto.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-kto" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "KK is a big favorite over KTo before the flop: 90.43% to 9.57% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-qts.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-a4s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-kto.md"] --- # KK vs KTo: preflop equity KK is a big favorite over KTo before the flop: 90.43% to 9.57% 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, KK finishes with 90.43% of the pot and KTo with 9.57%. ## KK against KTo: the numbers **Exact preflop results for KK against KTo, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KK | 89.831 | 1.197 | 8.972 | 90.430 | | KTo | 8.972 | 1.197 | 89.831 | 9.570 | We compare a pocket pair with an offsuit hand. The pair already holds one of the other hand's ranks, and that overlap cuts down the cards the other hand can pair with. A gap this wide means KTo is in trouble before the flop and has few good runouts. A split pot comes up on 1.20% of boards, so the wins and the equity differ by half of that. In the ranking of all 169 starting hands, KK is number 2 and KTo is number 33. **Boards behind the percentages: 61,642,944 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KK | 55,374,000 | 738,000 | 5,531,000 | | KTo | 5,531,000 | 738,000 | 55,374,000 | Exact total: 36 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. **KK against KTo 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 | 9.449 | 1.113 | 11.146 | 0.106 | | KTo | 0.106 | 11.146 | 1.113 | 9.449 | 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 The flop changes the picture. KK does best on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower), at 96.14%, and worst on monotone flops, at 81.74%. KK stays ahead on all five textures. **KK against KTo by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | KK wins | Ties | KTo wins | KK equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.053 | 89.148 | 1.444 | 9.408 | 89.870 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.771 | 95.595 | 1.090 | 3.315 | 96.140 | | Two-tone | 46.215 | 89.628 | 1.292 | 9.080 | 90.274 | | Monotone | 5.130 | 80.793 | 1.884 | 17.323 | 81.735 | | Paired | 17.831 | 91.330 | 0.479 | 8.191 | 91.570 | 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 Compared with a random opponent, this matchup shifts KK from 82.40% by +8.03 points and KTo from 59.74% by -50.17 points. **KK and KTo 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 | 90.430 | 82.396 | +8.034 | 1.09750 | | KK, rainbow, ten or higher | 89.870 | 82.396 | +7.474 | 1.09071 | | KK, rainbow, nine or lower | 96.140 | 82.396 | +13.744 | 1.16680 | | KK, two-tone | 90.274 | 82.396 | +7.878 | 1.09561 | | KK, monotone | 81.735 | 82.396 | -0.661 | 0.99198 | | KK, paired | 91.570 | 82.396 | +9.174 | 1.11134 | | KTo, all flops | 9.570 | 59.739 | -50.169 | 0.16020 | | KTo, rainbow, ten or higher | 10.130 | 59.739 | -49.609 | 0.16957 | | KTo, rainbow, nine or lower | 3.860 | 59.739 | -55.879 | 0.06461 | | KTo, two-tone | 9.726 | 59.739 | -50.013 | 0.16281 | | KTo, monotone | 18.265 | 59.739 | -41.474 | 0.30575 | | KTo, paired | 8.430 | 59.739 | -51.309 | 0.14111 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Split by suits, the deals give KK 90.71% when the hands overlap in a suit and 89.86% when they do not. KK does better with a shared suit, by 0.85 points. **KK against KTo by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | KK wins | Ties | KTo wins | KK equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 24 | 66.67 | 90.099 | 1.228 | 8.673 | 90.713 | | No shared suit | 12 | 33.33 | 89.296 | 1.134 | 9.570 | 89.863 | ## How often this matchup comes up How often does it happen? 36 of the 1,624,350 ordered deals (0.0022%) are KK against KTo, and 72 (0.0044%) if either hand may sit in either seat. ## A worked example Take a $200 pot built from $100 each. KK's equity of 90.43% is worth $180.86, a $80.86 edge, and KTo's 9.57% is worth $19.14, which is $80.86 under its stake. Per 1,000 deals: KK wins about 898, KTo wins about 90, and about 12 end in a split pot. ## The same matchup from the other side Read it from the other side: KTo against KK is the same matchup with the numbers swapped, so KTo holds 9.57% and KK holds 90.43%. That address sends you back to this page. ## Keep exploring Try KsKh against KdTc in the calculator: the hands share no suit, and every card can be changed. The links after it are the closest matchups in the ranking. - [Open KsKh against KdTc in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=KsKh&p2=KdTc) - [KK combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/kk.md) - [KTo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/kto.md) - [KK vs QTs](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-qts.md) - [KK vs A4s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-a4s.md) - [QQ vs KTo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-kto.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 QTs: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-qts.md) - [KK vs A4s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-a4s.md) - [QQ vs KTo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-kto.md)