KQo
61.92%
Wins 61.58%, ties 0.68%
J9s
38.08%
Wins 37.74%, ties 0.68%
KQo against J9s: the numbers
| Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KQo | 61.582 | 0.682 | 37.736 | 61.923 |
| J9s | 37.736 | 0.682 | 61.582 | 38.077 |
KQo, an offsuit hand, plays J9s, 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. A split pot comes up on 0.68% of boards, so the wins and the equity differ by half of that.
Among the 169 starting hands, KQo is number 23 and J9s is number 55 by strength against a random hand.
| Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about |
|---|---|---|---|
| KQo | 50,615,000 | 561,000 | 31,015,000 |
| J9s | 31,015,000 | 561,000 | 50,615,000 |
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.
| Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KQo | 1.626 | 1.624 | 2.650 | 0.615 |
| J9s | 0.615 | 2.650 | 1.624 | 1.626 |
In the last column, a pot-to-call ratio at or above the figure makes a call break even or better at this equity.
Who is ahead on which flops
Split by what the flop looks like, KQo peaks at 65.86% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better and bottoms out at 54.86% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower). KQo stays ahead on all five textures.
| Flop | Share of flops | KQo wins | Ties | J9s wins | KQo equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.988 | 65.725 | 0.264 | 34.011 | 65.857 |
| Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.042 | 54.382 | 0.961 | 44.657 | 54.863 |
| Two-tone | 46.667 | 60.304 | 0.390 | 39.306 | 60.499 |
| Monotone | 5.212 | 58.686 | 2.461 | 38.853 | 59.917 |
| Paired | 17.091 | 63.108 | 1.406 | 35.486 | 63.811 |
A rainbow flop shows three suits, a two-tone flop repeats one suit, a monotone flop is a single suit, and a paired flop repeats a rank.
Compared with a random hand
Each hand has a baseline against a random hand: 61.46% for KQo, 55.66% for J9s. Here the change is +0.46 and -17.58 points.
| Case | Equity here | Against a random hand | Change in points | Times the random-hand equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KQo, all flops | 61.923 | 61.456 | +0.467 | 1.00760 |
| KQo, rainbow, ten or higher | 65.857 | 61.456 | +4.401 | 1.07161 |
| KQo, rainbow, nine or lower | 54.863 | 61.456 | -6.593 | 0.89272 |
| KQo, two-tone | 60.499 | 61.456 | -0.957 | 0.98443 |
| KQo, monotone | 59.917 | 61.456 | -1.539 | 0.97496 |
| KQo, paired | 63.811 | 61.456 | +2.355 | 1.03832 |
| J9s, all flops | 38.077 | 55.662 | -17.585 | 0.68408 |
| J9s, rainbow, ten or higher | 34.143 | 55.662 | -21.519 | 0.61340 |
| J9s, rainbow, nine or lower | 45.137 | 55.662 | -10.525 | 0.81091 |
| J9s, two-tone | 39.501 | 55.662 | -16.161 | 0.70966 |
| J9s, monotone | 40.083 | 55.662 | -15.579 | 0.72011 |
| J9s, paired | 36.189 | 55.662 | -19.473 | 0.65016 |
Does a shared suit matter?
Two kinds of deal exist here. In 24 of them the hands share a suit and KQo holds 62.63%. In 24 they do not, and it holds 61.22%. KQo does better with a shared suit, by 1.41 points.
| Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | KQo wins | Ties | J9s wins | KQo equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Share a suit | 24 | 50.00 | 62.264 | 0.722 | 37.014 | 62.625 |
| No shared suit | 24 | 50.00 | 60.900 | 0.642 | 38.458 | 61.221 |
How often this matchup comes up
How often does it happen? 48 of the 1,624,350 ordered deals (0.0030%) are KQo against J9s, and 96 (0.0059%) if either hand may sit in either seat.
A worked example
Put $100 each into a $200 pot and deal every board once: KQo averages $123.84 back, ahead of its $100 by $23.84, while J9s averages $76.16, short of its $100 by $23.84.
Per 1,000 deals: KQo wins about 616, J9s wins about 377, and about 7 end in a split pot.
The same matchup from the other side
The mirror image, J9s against KQo, is 38.08% to 61.92%, and its address redirects to this page.
Keep exploring
The calculator link fills in KsQh against Jd9d, a deal where the two hands share no suit. Change any card to test your own hand. The neighboring matchups below swap one of the two hands for one of similar strength.
How this was computed
The page is built from a full enumeration: 1,712,304 boards, every suit pattern of the 48 specific deals, both seven-card hands evaluated. A tie is worth half a win to each hand, and a board is tallied under each of its ten possible flops for the texture rows.
Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used.
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