KK vs T9o: preflop equity

Counting every board, the equity split is 82.81% for KK and 17.19% for T9o, so KK leads by 65.62 points.

KK

82.81%

Wins 82.63%, ties 0.37%

T9o

17.19%

Wins 17.00%, ties 0.37%

Equity counts a tie as half a win. Exact over every board.

KK against T9o: the numbers

Exact preflop results for KK against T9o, in percent
HandWinsTiesLosesEquity
KK82.6280.36617.00682.811
T9o17.0060.36682.62817.189

The matchup pits a pocket pair against an offsuit hand. Here a pair faces two cards that are both smaller, so the other hand needs to pair up and still be behind.

A gap this wide means T9o is in trouble before the flop and has few good runouts. Split pots make up 0.37% of the boards, and both equity figures count them as half a win each.

By strength against a random hand, KK holds place 2 of 169 and T9o holds place 78.

Boards behind the percentages: 123,285,888 counted in all
HandBoards won, aboutBoards tied, aboutBoards lost, about
KK101,869,000451,00020,966,000
T9o20,966,000451,000101,869,000

The total is exact: 72 specific deals times 1,712,304 boards. The three counts are approximate, worked out from the percentages to five decimals and rounded to the nearest thousand.

KK against T9o read as odds
HandEquity as odds (to 1)Wins one deal inLoses one deal inPot odds needed to call (to 1)
KK4.8181.2105.8800.208
T9o0.2085.8801.2104.818

The final column gives the least the pot must offer for each unit called for a call to break even at this equity.

Who is ahead on which flops

Break the boards down by their first three cards and KK is strongest on paired flops (86.61%) and weakest on monotone flops (78.16%). KK stays ahead on all five textures.

KK against T9o by flop texture, in percent
FlopShare of flopsKK winsTiesT9o winsKK equity
Rainbow, ten or higher23.98882.3200.19817.48282.419
Rainbow, nine or lower7.04282.5710.85416.57582.998
Two-tone46.48581.9200.33117.74982.085
Monotone5.15177.3001.71320.98778.156
Paired17.33486.5610.09213.34786.607

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

Start from the random-hand figures, 82.40% for KK and 51.53% for T9o. This opponent changes them by +0.41 and -34.34 points.

KK and T9o here compared with each against a random hand, in percent
CaseEquity hereAgainst a random handChange in pointsTimes the random-hand equity
KK, all flops82.81182.396+0.4151.00504
KK, rainbow, ten or higher82.41982.396+0.0231.00028
KK, rainbow, nine or lower82.99882.396+0.6021.00731
KK, two-tone82.08582.396-0.3110.99623
KK, monotone78.15682.396-4.2400.94854
KK, paired86.60782.396+4.2111.05111
T9o, all flops17.18951.532-34.3430.33356
T9o, rainbow, ten or higher17.58151.532-33.9510.34117
T9o, rainbow, nine or lower17.00251.532-34.5300.32993
T9o, two-tone17.91551.532-33.6170.34765
T9o, monotone21.84451.532-29.6880.42389
T9o, paired13.39351.532-38.1390.25990

Does a shared suit matter?

The suit split reads 82.95% for KK with a shared suit and 82.11% without one. KK does better with a shared suit, by 0.84 points.

KK against T9o by suit overlap, in percent
DealsSpecific dealsShare of dealsKK winsTiesT9o winsKK equity
Share a suit6083.3382.7610.38216.85782.952
No shared suit1216.6781.9650.28617.74982.108

How often this matchup comes up

This page stands for 72 specific-card matchups (0.0044% of 1,624,350 ordered deals), or 144 once you count the seats both ways (0.0089%).

A worked example

A $100 all-in from each player makes a $200 pot, and the exact equity says KK gets $165.62 of it on average and T9o gets $34.38.

Run 1,000 deals and the tally comes out near 826 for KK, 170 for T9o and 4 ties.

The same matchup from the other side

The mirror image, T9o against KK, is 17.19% to 82.81%, and its address redirects to this page.

Open the calculator with KsKh against Td9c already entered, a deal with no shared suit, and change any card to try your own hand. The matchups after it each swap one hand for a nearby one in the ranking.

How this was computed

Each figure is a complete count over boards. Take the 72 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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