--- title: "KQo vs 43s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-43s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-43s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "KQo is a big favorite over 43s before the flop: 60.72% to 39.29% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a7s-vs-43s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-53s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-43s.md"] --- # KQo vs 43s: preflop equity KQo is a big favorite over 43s before the flop: 60.72% to 39.29% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Before any board card is dealt, KQo holds 60.72% equity against 43s, which leaves 43s with 39.28%. ## KQo against 43s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for KQo against 43s, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KQo | 60.343 | 0.743 | 38.914 | 60.715 | | 43s | 38.914 | 0.743 | 60.343 | 39.285 | KQo is an offsuit hand and 43s is a suited hand. With no overlap in ranks, every card that pairs one hand is a card that does not pair the other. The lead is steady rather than large, and the flop still has plenty of say in who wins. Split pots make up 0.74% of the boards, and both equity figures count them as half a win each. Among the 169 starting hands, KQo is number 23 and 43s is number 150 by strength against a random hand. **Boards behind the percentages: 82,190,592 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KQo | 49,596,000 | 611,000 | 31,984,000 | | 43s | 31,984,000 | 611,000 | 49,596,000 | The board total is exact, 48 deals at 1,712,304 boards each. Won, tied and lost counts are rounded to the nearest thousand from the five-decimal percentages. **KQo against 43s 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 | 1.546 | 1.657 | 2.570 | 0.647 | | 43s | 0.647 | 2.570 | 1.657 | 1.546 | 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. KQo does best on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better, at 68.69%, and worst on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower), at 35.50%. 43s is ahead on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower), even though it trails KQo when every flop is counted. **KQo against 43s by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | KQo wins | Ties | 43s wins | KQo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 24.717 | 68.537 | 0.309 | 31.154 | 68.691 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 6.313 | 34.903 | 1.191 | 63.906 | 35.498 | | Two-tone | 46.667 | 58.846 | 0.457 | 40.697 | 59.074 | | Monotone | 5.212 | 57.548 | 2.645 | 39.807 | 58.871 | | Paired | 17.091 | 62.835 | 1.404 | 35.761 | 63.537 | 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 Each hand has a baseline against a random hand: 61.46% for KQo, 38.64% for 43s. Here the change is -0.74 and +0.64 points. **KQo and 43s 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 | 60.715 | 61.456 | -0.741 | 0.98794 | | KQo, rainbow, ten or higher | 68.691 | 61.456 | +7.235 | 1.11773 | | KQo, rainbow, nine or lower | 35.498 | 61.456 | -25.958 | 0.57762 | | KQo, two-tone | 59.074 | 61.456 | -2.382 | 0.96124 | | KQo, monotone | 58.871 | 61.456 | -2.585 | 0.95794 | | KQo, paired | 63.537 | 61.456 | +2.081 | 1.03386 | | 43s, all flops | 39.285 | 38.642 | +0.643 | 1.01664 | | 43s, rainbow, ten or higher | 31.309 | 38.642 | -7.333 | 0.81023 | | 43s, rainbow, nine or lower | 64.502 | 38.642 | +25.860 | 1.66922 | | 43s, two-tone | 40.926 | 38.642 | +2.284 | 1.05911 | | 43s, monotone | 41.129 | 38.642 | +2.487 | 1.06436 | | 43s, paired | 36.463 | 38.642 | -2.179 | 0.94361 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Two kinds of deal exist here. In 24 of them the hands share a suit and KQo holds 61.43%. In 24 they do not, and it holds 60.00%. KQo does better with a shared suit, by 1.43 points. **KQo against 43s by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | KQo wins | Ties | 43s wins | KQo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 24 | 50.00 | 61.040 | 0.779 | 38.181 | 61.430 | | No shared suit | 24 | 50.00 | 59.647 | 0.707 | 39.646 | 60.000 | ## How often this matchup comes up How often does it happen? 48 of the 1,624,350 ordered deals (0.0030%) are KQo against 43s, and 96 (0.0059%) if either hand may sit in either seat. ## A worked example Try it with money: two players each put in $100 and the whole board runs out every possible way. KQo averages $121.44 from the $200, up $21.44; 43s averages $78.56, down $21.44. Think in thousands: about 604 of 1,000 go to KQo, about 389 go to 43s, and about 7 are chopped. ## The same matchup from the other side If you came looking for 43s against KQo, the numbers are the same with the hands swapped: 39.28% and 60.72%. ## Keep exploring KsQh against 4d3d 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 KsQh against 4d3d in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=KsQh&p2=4d3d) - [KQo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/kqo.md) - [43s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/43s.md) - [A7s vs 43s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a7s-vs-43s.md) - [KQo vs 53s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-53s.md) - [KTs vs 43s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-43s.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed We counted every case. Each suit pattern of the 48 specific KQo against 43s deals meets all 1,712,304 boards, and the better five-card hand wins; a split pot is half a win each. The flop table reads each board under all ten of its three-card flops. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [A7s vs 43s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a7s-vs-43s.md) - [KQo vs 53s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-53s.md) - [KTs vs 43s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-43s.md)