--- title: "KK vs TT: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-tt.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-tt" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "KK is a big favorite over TT before the flop: 81.14% to 18.86% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-99.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-88.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-tt.md"] --- # KK vs TT: preflop equity KK is a big favorite over TT before the flop: 81.14% to 18.86% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. If KK and TT get all the chips in before the flop, KK owns 81.14% of the pot in the long run and TT owns 18.86%. ## KK against TT: the numbers **Exact preflop results for KK against TT, in percent** | 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. **Boards behind the percentages: 61,642,944 counted in all** | 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. **KK against TT 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 | 4.301 | 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. **KK against TT by flop texture, in percent** | 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. **KK and TT 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 | 81.137 | 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. **KK against TT by suit overlap, in percent** | 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. - [Open KsKh against TdTc in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=KsKh&p2=TdTc) - [KK combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/kk.md) - [TT combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/tt.md) - [KK vs 99](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-99.md) - [KK vs 88](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-88.md) - [QQ vs TT](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-tt.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 99: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-99.md) - [KK vs 88: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-88.md) - [QQ vs TT: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-tt.md)