KK
81.94%
Wins 81.70%, ties 0.47%
18.06%
Wins 17.83%, ties 0.47%
KK against QQ: the numbers
| Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KK | 81.702 | 0.465 | 17.833 | 81.935 |
| 17.833 | 0.465 | 81.702 | 18.065 |
Here pocket pairs face each other, KK on one side and QQ on the other. Both hands are pairs, so the bigger pair is ahead on every board that does not pair a card below it.
This is one of the lopsided matchups: QQ wins only 17.83% of the boards outright. Ties are 0.47% 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 QQ holds place 3.
| Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about |
|---|---|---|---|
| KK | 50,364,000 | 287,000 | 10,993,000 |
| 10,993,000 | 287,000 | 50,364,000 |
36 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.
| Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KK | 4.536 | 1.224 | 5.608 | 0.220 |
| 0.220 | 5.608 | 1.224 | 4.536 |
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
By flop texture, KK's equity runs from 76.20% on monotone flops up to 90.75% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower). KK stays ahead on all five textures.
| Flop | Share of flops | KK wins | Ties | QQ wins | KK equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.138 | 78.478 | 0.165 | 21.357 | 78.560 |
| Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.771 | 90.058 | 1.385 | 8.557 | 90.750 |
| Two-tone | 46.363 | 80.784 | 0.451 | 18.765 | 81.010 |
| Monotone | 5.152 | 75.299 | 1.797 | 22.904 | 76.197 |
| Paired | 17.576 | 86.552 | 0.100 | 13.348 | 86.602 |
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 -0.46 points and QQ from 79.93% by -61.87 points.
| Case | Equity here | Against a random hand | Change in points | Times the random-hand equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KK, all flops | 81.935 | 82.396 | -0.461 | 0.99441 |
| KK, rainbow, ten or higher | 78.560 | 82.396 | -3.836 | 0.95344 |
| KK, rainbow, nine or lower | 90.750 | 82.396 | +8.354 | 1.10139 |
| KK, two-tone | 81.010 | 82.396 | -1.386 | 0.98318 |
| KK, monotone | 76.197 | 82.396 | -6.199 | 0.92477 |
| KK, paired | 86.602 | 82.396 | +4.206 | 1.05105 |
| QQ, all flops | 18.065 | 79.925 | -61.860 | 0.22602 |
| QQ, rainbow, ten or higher | 21.440 | 79.925 | -58.485 | 0.26825 |
| QQ, rainbow, nine or lower | 9.250 | 79.925 | -70.675 | 0.11573 |
| QQ, two-tone | 18.990 | 79.925 | -60.935 | 0.23760 |
| QQ, monotone | 23.803 | 79.925 | -56.122 | 0.29782 |
| QQ, paired | 13.398 | 79.925 | -66.527 | 0.16763 |
Does a shared suit matter?
Does suit overlap move the numbers? KK has 82.07% when the hands share a suit and 81.25% when they do not. KK does better with a shared suit, by 0.82 points.
| Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | KK wins | Ties | QQ wins | KK equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Share a suit | 30 | 83.33 | 81.832 | 0.481 | 17.687 | 82.073 |
| No shared suit | 6 | 16.67 | 81.052 | 0.385 | 18.563 | 81.245 |
How often this matchup comes up
Out of 1,624,350 ways to deal two seats two cards each, 36 are KK in one seat and QQ in the other (0.0022%); with the seats swapped too, 72 (0.0044%).
A worked example
Put $100 each into a $200 pot and deal every board once: KK averages $163.88 back, ahead of its $100 by $63.88, while QQ averages $36.12, short of its $100 by $63.88.
Run 1,000 deals and the tally comes out near 817 for KK, 178 for QQ and 5 ties.
The same matchup from the other side
Swap the hands and you get QQ with 18.06% against KK with 81.94%. We keep one page per matchup, with the better-ranked hand first.
Keep exploring
The calculator link fills in KsKh against QdQc, 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
Each figure is a complete count over boards. Take the 36 specific deals, group them by suit pattern, deal all 1,712,304 boards against each, and compare the two seven-card hands. Equity counts a tie as half a win; the flop rows use every one of a board's ten flops.
Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used.
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