--- title: "KQo vs JTo: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-jto.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-jto" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "KQo is a big favorite over JTo before the flop: 64.62% to 35.38% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-t9s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-33.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a7s-vs-jto.md"] --- # KQo vs JTo: preflop equity KQo is a big favorite over JTo before the flop: 64.62% to 35.38% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Over all 1,712,304 boards that can follow this deal, KQo finishes with 64.62% of the pot and JTo with 35.38%. ## KQo against JTo: the numbers **Exact preflop results for KQo against JTo, in percent** | 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. **Boards behind the percentages: 246,571,776 counted in all** | 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. **KQo against JTo 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 | 1.827 | 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. **KQo against JTo by flop texture, in percent** | 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. **KQo and JTo 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 | 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. **KQo against JTo by suit overlap, in percent** | 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. - [Open KsQh against JdTc in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=KsQh&p2=JdTc) - [KQo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/kqo.md) - [JTo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/jto.md) - [KQo vs T9s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-t9s.md) - [KQo vs 33](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-33.md) - [A7s vs JTo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a7s-vs-jto.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## 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. ## Related - [KQo vs T9s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-t9s.md) - [KQo vs 33: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-33.md) - [A7s vs JTo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a7s-vs-jto.md)