KK
81.14%
Wins 80.93%, ties 0.41%
TT
18.86%
Wins 18.66%, ties 0.41%
KK against TT: the numbers
| Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KK | 80.933 | 0.408 | 18.659 | 81.137 |
| TT | 18.659 | 0.408 | 80.933 | 18.863 |
This is a contest between two pocket pairs, KK and TT. Both hands are pairs, so the bigger pair is ahead on every board that does not pair a card below it.
A gap this wide means TT is in trouble before the flop and has few good runouts. 0.41% of boards are ties, so the equity of each hand is its win rate plus half of that.
In the ranking of all 169 starting hands, KK is number 2 and TT is number 5.
| Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about |
|---|---|---|---|
| KK | 49,889,000 | 252,000 | 11,502,000 |
| TT | 11,502,000 | 252,000 | 49,889,000 |
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.
| Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KK | 4.301 | 1.236 | 5.359 | 0.232 |
| TT | 0.232 | 5.359 | 1.236 | 4.301 |
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
The flop changes the picture. KK does best on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower), at 88.55%, and worst on monotone flops, at 75.49%. KK stays ahead on all five textures.
| Flop | Share of flops | KK wins | Ties | TT wins | KK equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.138 | 77.911 | 0.179 | 21.910 | 78.001 |
| Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.771 | 88.020 | 1.053 | 10.927 | 88.546 |
| Two-tone | 46.363 | 79.882 | 0.382 | 19.736 | 80.073 |
| Monotone | 5.152 | 74.619 | 1.749 | 23.632 | 75.494 |
| Paired | 17.576 | 86.399 | 0.100 | 13.501 | 86.449 |
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
How much does the opponent matter? Compared with its random-hand 82.40%, KK changes by -1.26 points, and TT, from 75.01%, by -56.15.
| Case | Equity here | Against a random hand | Change in points | Times the random-hand equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KK, all flops | 81.137 | 82.396 | -1.259 | 0.98472 |
| KK, rainbow, ten or higher | 78.001 | 82.396 | -4.395 | 0.94666 |
| KK, rainbow, nine or lower | 88.546 | 82.396 | +6.150 | 1.07464 |
| KK, two-tone | 80.073 | 82.396 | -2.323 | 0.97181 |
| KK, monotone | 75.494 | 82.396 | -6.902 | 0.91623 |
| KK, paired | 86.449 | 82.396 | +4.053 | 1.04919 |
| TT, all flops | 18.863 | 75.012 | -56.149 | 0.25147 |
| TT, rainbow, ten or higher | 21.999 | 75.012 | -53.013 | 0.29327 |
| TT, rainbow, nine or lower | 11.454 | 75.012 | -63.558 | 0.15270 |
| TT, two-tone | 19.927 | 75.012 | -55.085 | 0.26565 |
| TT, monotone | 24.506 | 75.012 | -50.506 | 0.32669 |
| TT, paired | 13.551 | 75.012 | -61.461 | 0.18065 |
Does a shared suit matter?
Two kinds of deal exist here. In 30 of them the hands share a suit and KK holds 81.27%. In 6 they do not, and it holds 80.46%. KK does better with a shared suit, by 0.81 points.
| Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | KK wins | Ties | TT wins | KK equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Share a suit | 30 | 83.33 | 81.059 | 0.425 | 18.516 | 81.272 |
| No shared suit | 6 | 16.67 | 80.299 | 0.328 | 19.373 | 80.463 |
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 TT 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 $162.28 back, ahead of its $100 by $62.28, while TT averages $37.72, short of its $100 by $62.28.
Over a long run, 1,000 deals split into about 809 for KK, 187 for TT and 4 tied.
The same matchup from the other side
TT against KK adds nothing new: it is 18.86% for TT and 81.14% for KK, the same figures reversed.
Keep exploring
KsKh against TdTc is a ready-made deal for the calculator, with no suit in common between the hands. The neighboring matchups below replace one hand with another 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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