--- title: "KK vs QJs: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-qjs.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-qjs" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "KK is a big favorite over QJs before the flop: 82.30% to 17.70% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-k9s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-a5s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-qjs.md"] --- # KK vs QJs: preflop equity KK is a big favorite over QJs before the flop: 82.30% to 17.70% 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 82.30% of the pot and QJs with 17.70%. ## KK against QJs: the numbers **Exact preflop results for KK against QJs, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KK | 82.085 | 0.423 | 17.492 | 82.296 | | QJs | 17.492 | 0.423 | 82.085 | 17.704 | The matchup pits a pocket pair against a suited hand. A pair against two lower cards is a lopsided matchup: the pair is ahead and the other hand has no overcard to catch. This is one of the lopsided matchups: QJs wins only 17.49% of the boards outright. A split pot comes up on 0.42% of boards, so the wins and the equity differ by half of that. Among the 169 starting hands, KK is number 2 and QJs is number 28 by strength against a random hand. **Boards behind the percentages: 41,095,296 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KK | 33,733,000 | 174,000 | 7,188,000 | | QJs | 7,188,000 | 174,000 | 33,733,000 | The board total is exact, 24 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 QJs 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 | 4.648 | 1.218 | 5.717 | 0.215 | | QJs | 0.215 | 5.717 | 1.218 | 4.648 | 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 KK prefers low rainbow flops (nine high or lower), where it holds 92.09%, and likes monotone flops least, where it holds 76.10%. 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 QJs by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | KK wins | Ties | QJs wins | KK equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.138 | 81.627 | 0.108 | 18.265 | 81.681 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.771 | 91.480 | 1.210 | 7.310 | 92.085 | | Two-tone | 46.545 | 80.354 | 0.348 | 19.298 | 80.528 | | Monotone | 5.212 | 74.894 | 2.419 | 22.687 | 76.103 | | Paired | 17.334 | 85.294 | 0.092 | 14.614 | 85.340 | 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 Compared with a random opponent, this matchup shifts KK from 82.40% by -0.10 points and QJs from 60.26% by -42.56 points. **KK and QJs 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 | 82.296 | 82.396 | -0.100 | 0.99879 | | KK, rainbow, ten or higher | 81.681 | 82.396 | -0.715 | 0.99132 | | KK, rainbow, nine or lower | 92.085 | 82.396 | +9.689 | 1.11759 | | KK, two-tone | 80.528 | 82.396 | -1.868 | 0.97733 | | KK, monotone | 76.103 | 82.396 | -6.293 | 0.92362 | | KK, paired | 85.340 | 82.396 | +2.944 | 1.03573 | | QJs, all flops | 17.704 | 60.259 | -42.555 | 0.29380 | | QJs, rainbow, ten or higher | 18.319 | 60.259 | -41.940 | 0.30400 | | QJs, rainbow, nine or lower | 7.915 | 60.259 | -52.344 | 0.13135 | | QJs, two-tone | 19.472 | 60.259 | -40.787 | 0.32314 | | QJs, monotone | 23.897 | 60.259 | -36.362 | 0.39657 | | QJs, paired | 14.660 | 60.259 | -45.599 | 0.24328 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Looking only at deals where the hands share a suit, KK has 82.88%; looking only at deals where they do not, 81.71%. KK does better with a shared suit, by 1.17 points. **KK against QJs by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | KK wins | Ties | QJs wins | KK equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 12 | 50.00 | 82.653 | 0.463 | 16.884 | 82.884 | | No shared suit | 12 | 50.00 | 81.517 | 0.383 | 18.100 | 81.708 | ## How often this matchup comes up This page stands for 24 specific-card matchups (0.0015% of 1,624,350 ordered deals), or 48 once you count the seats both ways (0.0030%). ## A worked example Take a $200 pot built from $100 each. KK's equity of 82.30% is worth $164.60, a $64.60 edge, and QJs' 17.70% is worth $35.40, which is $64.60 under its stake. Think in thousands: about 821 of 1,000 go to KK, about 175 go to QJs, and about 4 are chopped. ## The same matchup from the other side If you came looking for QJs against KK, the numbers are the same with the hands swapped: 17.70% and 82.30%. ## Keep exploring The calculator link fills in KsKh against QdJd, 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. - [Open KsKh against QdJd in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=KsKh&p2=QdJd) - [KK combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/kk.md) - [QJs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/qjs.md) - [KK vs K9s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-k9s.md) - [KK vs A5s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-a5s.md) - [QQ vs QJs](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-qjs.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed All 1,712,304 five-card boards are dealt for every suit pattern among the 24 specific deals of KK against QJs, and both hands are scored on each. That is a full count, so the percentages are exact. Ties are half a win each, and each board appears once per flop it contains. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [KK vs K9s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-k9s.md) - [KK vs A5s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-a5s.md) - [QQ vs QJs: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-qjs.md)