KQo vs K9o: preflop equity

KQo against K9o: the numbers

Here offsuit hands face each other, KQo on one side and K9o on the other. Sharing a rank is the signature of a dominated hand, since the weaker hand is usually out-kicked when the shared rank shows up.

KQo is well ahead, and K9o needs a specific kind of board to catch up. About 5.67% of boards chop the pot, which is why equity sits slightly above the win figure for both hands.

Ranked by equity against a random hand, KQo is number 23 of the 169 starting hands and K9o is number 40.

The board total is exact, 108 deals at 1,712,304 boards each. Won, tied and lost counts are rounded to the nearest thousand from the five-decimal percentages.

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 78.65% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better and bottoms out at 61.28% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower). KQo stays ahead on all five textures, but the swing between them is large, so how the flop looks matters a great deal.

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

Start from the random-hand figures, 61.46% for KQo and 57.81% for K9o. This opponent changes them by +12.26 and -31.53 points.

Does a shared suit matter?

The suit split reads 73.82% for KQo with a shared suit and 73.35% without one. KQo does better with a shared suit, by 0.47 points.

How often this matchup comes up

Out of 1,624,350 ways to deal two seats two cards each, 108 are KQo in one seat and K9o in the other (0.0066%); with the seats swapped too, 216 (0.0133%).

A worked example

Try it with money: two players each put in $100 and the whole board runs out every possible way. KQo averages $147.44 from the $200, up $47.44; K9o averages $52.56, down $47.44.

Over a long run, 1,000 deals split into about 709 for KQo, 234 for K9o and 57 tied.

The same matchup from the other side

Swap the hands and you get K9o with 26.28% against KQo with 73.72%. We keep one page per matchup, with the better-ranked hand first.

Keep exploring

Try KsQh against Kd9c 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 Kd9c in the equity calculator
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