KQo
64.62%
Wins 64.28%, ties 0.68%
JTo
35.38%
Wins 35.04%, ties 0.68%
KQo against JTo: the numbers
| Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KQo | 64.281 | 0.683 | 35.036 | 64.623 |
| JTo | 35.036 | 0.683 | 64.281 | 35.377 |
Here offsuit hands face each other, KQo on one side and JTo on the other. Neither hand shares a rank with the other, so this is a contest of high cards, connection and suits.
A 29.24 point lead is real, and JTo still takes about 350 of every 1,000 deals outright. Ties are 0.68% of the outcomes here; each tied board gives both hands half the pot.
By strength against a random hand, KQo holds place 23 of 169 and JTo holds place 57.
| Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about |
|---|---|---|---|
| KQo | 158,499,000 | 1,684,000 | 86,389,000 |
| JTo | 86,389,000 | 1,684,000 | 158,499,000 |
Exact total: 144 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KQo | 1.827 | 1.556 | 2.854 | 0.547 |
| JTo | 0.547 | 2.854 | 1.556 | 1.827 |
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
By flop texture, KQo's equity runs from 62.16% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better up to 70.39% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower). KQo stays ahead on all five textures.
| Flop | Share of flops | KQo wins | Ties | JTo wins | KQo equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.381 | 62.022 | 0.271 | 37.707 | 62.157 |
| Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.771 | 69.896 | 0.981 | 29.123 | 70.386 |
| Two-tone | 46.606 | 63.988 | 0.433 | 35.579 | 64.204 |
| Monotone | 5.151 | 62.774 | 1.817 | 35.409 | 63.683 |
| Paired | 17.091 | 66.073 | 1.454 | 32.473 | 66.800 |
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
A random hand would give KQo 61.46% and JTo 55.25%. Against each other the change is +3.16 points for KQo and -19.87 for JTo.
| Case | Equity here | Against a random hand | Change in points | Times the random-hand equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KQo, all flops | 64.623 | 61.456 | +3.167 | 1.05153 |
| KQo, rainbow, ten or higher | 62.157 | 61.456 | +0.701 | 1.01141 |
| KQo, rainbow, nine or lower | 70.386 | 61.456 | +8.930 | 1.14531 |
| KQo, two-tone | 64.204 | 61.456 | +2.748 | 1.04471 |
| KQo, monotone | 63.683 | 61.456 | +2.227 | 1.03624 |
| KQo, paired | 66.800 | 61.456 | +5.344 | 1.08696 |
| JTo, all flops | 35.377 | 55.248 | -19.871 | 0.64033 |
| JTo, rainbow, ten or higher | 37.843 | 55.248 | -17.405 | 0.68497 |
| JTo, rainbow, nine or lower | 29.614 | 55.248 | -25.634 | 0.53602 |
| JTo, two-tone | 35.796 | 55.248 | -19.452 | 0.64791 |
| JTo, monotone | 36.317 | 55.248 | -18.931 | 0.65735 |
| JTo, paired | 33.200 | 55.248 | -22.048 | 0.60093 |
Does a shared suit matter?
Suit overlap shows up in the numbers. With a suit in common KQo has 64.73% equity, and with none in common it has 64.09%. KQo does better with a shared suit, by 0.64 points.
| Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | KQo wins | Ties | JTo wins | KQo equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Share a suit | 120 | 83.33 | 64.380 | 0.699 | 34.921 | 64.730 |
| No shared suit | 24 | 16.67 | 63.784 | 0.605 | 35.611 | 64.087 |
How often this matchup comes up
Out of 1,624,350 ways to deal two seats two cards each, 144 are KQo in one seat and JTo in the other (0.0089%); with the seats swapped too, 288 (0.0177%).
A worked example
With $100 from each side, the $200 pot is split on average as $129.24 for KQo and $70.76 for JTo; the first side gains $29.24 per all-in and the second gives up $29.24.
Scaled to 1,000 deals, that is roughly 643 wins for KQo, 350 for JTo and 7 chopped pots.
The same matchup from the other side
JTo against KQo adds nothing new: it is 35.38% for JTo and 64.62% for KQo, the same figures reversed.
Keep exploring
Try KsQh against JdTc in the calculator: the hands share no suit, and every card can be changed. The links after it are the closest matchups in the ranking.
How this was computed
All 1,712,304 five-card boards are dealt for every suit pattern among the 144 specific deals of KQo against JTo, and both hands are scored on each. That is a full count, so the percentages are exact. Ties are half a win each, and each board appears once per flop it contains.
Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used.
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