--- title: "KQo vs 33: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-33.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-33" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "KQo vs 33 is close to a coin flip before the flop: 48.13% to 51.87% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-t8s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-t9o.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a7s-vs-33.md"] --- # KQo vs 33: preflop equity KQo vs 33 is close to a coin flip before the flop: 48.13% to 51.87% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. If 33 and KQo get all the chips in before the flop, 33 owns 51.87% of the pot in the long run and KQo owns 48.13%. ## KQo against 33: the numbers **Exact preflop results for KQo against 33, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KQo | 47.747 | 0.770 | 51.483 | 48.132 | | 33 | 51.483 | 0.770 | 47.747 | 51.868 | The first hand is an offsuit hand; the second is a pocket pair. A pair against two higher cards is the classic race: the pair is usually a small favorite or close to even, and each overcard that pairs is a way to take the lead. This is close to even money, with 33 a little ahead. The tie share is 0.77%: on those boards the pot is chopped and neither hand wins outright. Place 23 of 169 belongs to KQo and place 66 belongs to 33 in the ranking against a random hand. **Boards behind the percentages: 123,285,888 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KQo | 58,865,000 | 949,000 | 63,471,000 | | 33 | 63,471,000 | 949,000 | 58,865,000 | 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. **KQo against 33 read as odds** | Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KQo | 0.928 | 2.094 | 1.942 | 1.078 | | 33 | 1.078 | 1.942 | 2.094 | 0.928 | 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 Split by what the flop looks like, 33 peaks at 79.29% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) and bottoms out at 45.10% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better. On rainbow flops topped by a ten or better and monotone flops the numbers flip and KQo is the one ahead. **KQo against 33 by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | KQo wins | Ties | 33 wins | KQo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 24.717 | 54.736 | 0.323 | 44.941 | 54.898 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 6.314 | 20.073 | 1.279 | 78.648 | 20.713 | | Two-tone | 46.485 | 47.973 | 0.500 | 51.527 | 48.223 | | Monotone | 5.151 | 49.462 | 2.376 | 48.162 | 50.650 | | Paired | 17.333 | 46.747 | 1.471 | 51.782 | 47.482 | Flop types: rainbow means three different suits, two-tone means one suit twice, monotone means one suit three times, paired means a repeated rank. ## Compared with a random hand A random hand would give KQo 61.46% and 33 53.69%. Against each other the change is -13.33 points for KQo and -1.82 for 33. **KQo and 33 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KQo, all flops | 48.132 | 61.456 | -13.324 | 0.78319 | | KQo, rainbow, ten or higher | 54.898 | 61.456 | -6.558 | 0.89329 | | KQo, rainbow, nine or lower | 20.713 | 61.456 | -40.743 | 0.33704 | | KQo, two-tone | 48.223 | 61.456 | -13.233 | 0.78468 | | KQo, monotone | 50.650 | 61.456 | -10.806 | 0.82417 | | KQo, paired | 47.482 | 61.456 | -13.974 | 0.77262 | | 33, all flops | 51.868 | 53.693 | -1.825 | 0.96601 | | 33, rainbow, ten or higher | 45.102 | 53.693 | -8.591 | 0.84000 | | 33, rainbow, nine or lower | 79.287 | 53.693 | +25.594 | 1.47667 | | 33, two-tone | 51.777 | 53.693 | -1.916 | 0.96432 | | 33, monotone | 49.350 | 53.693 | -4.343 | 0.91911 | | 33, paired | 52.518 | 53.693 | -1.175 | 0.97812 | ## Does a shared suit matter? The suit split reads 51.78% for 33 with a shared suit and 52.29% without one. 33 does better with no shared suit, by 0.51 points. **KQo against 33 by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | KQo wins | Ties | 33 wins | KQo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 60 | 83.33 | 47.825 | 0.781 | 51.394 | 48.216 | | No shared suit | 12 | 16.67 | 47.357 | 0.716 | 51.927 | 47.715 | ## How often this matchup comes up Counting specific cards, KQo against 33 appears in 72 of the 1,624,350 ordered heads-up deals (0.0044%), and in 144 when the seats are swapped too (0.0089%). ## A worked example With $100 from each side, the $200 pot is split on average as $103.74 for 33 and $96.26 for KQo; the first side gains $3.74 per all-in and the second gives up $3.74. Run 1,000 deals and the tally comes out near 515 for 33, 477 for KQo and 8 ties. ## The same matchup from the other side If you came looking for 33 against KQo, the numbers are the same with the hands swapped: 51.87% and 48.13%. ## Keep exploring Open the calculator with KsQh against 3d3c 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. - [Open KsQh against 3d3c in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=KsQh&p2=3d3c) - [KQo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/kqo.md) - [33 combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/33.md) - [KQo vs T8s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-t8s.md) - [KQo vs T9o](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-t9o.md) - [A7s vs 33](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a7s-vs-33.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed The figures are counted, not estimated: 1,712,304 boards for every suit pattern of the 72 specific deals, with both seven-card hands compared each time. Equity gives half a win for a tie. For the flop rows, a board is counted once under each of the ten flops inside it. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [KQo vs T8s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-t8s.md) - [KQo vs T9o: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-t9o.md) - [A7s vs 33: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a7s-vs-33.md)