--- title: "KK vs QQ: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-qq.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-qq" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "KK is a big favorite over QQ before the flop: 81.94% to 18.07% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-jj.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-tt.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aa-vs-qq.md"] --- # KK vs QQ: preflop equity KK is a big favorite over QQ before the flop: 81.94% to 18.07% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Dealt all in against each other, KK takes 81.94% of the pot on average and QQ takes the other 18.06%. ## KK against QQ: the numbers **Exact preflop results for KK against QQ, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KK | 81.702 | 0.465 | 17.833 | 81.935 | | QQ | 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. **Boards behind the percentages: 61,642,944 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KK | 50,364,000 | 287,000 | 10,993,000 | | QQ | 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. **KK against QQ 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 | 4.536 | 1.224 | 5.608 | 0.220 | | QQ | 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. **KK against QQ by flop texture, in percent** | 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. **KK and QQ 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 | 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. **KK against QQ by suit overlap, in percent** | 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. - [Open KsKh against QdQc in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=KsKh&p2=QdQc) - [KK combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/kk.md) - [QQ combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/qq.md) - [KK vs JJ](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-jj.md) - [KK vs TT](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-tt.md) - [AA vs QQ](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aa-vs-qq.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## 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. ## Related - [KK vs JJ: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-jj.md) - [KK vs TT: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-tt.md) - [AA vs QQ: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aa-vs-qq.md)