--- title: "KQo vs K9s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-k9s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-k9s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "KQo is a big favorite over K9s before the flop: 69.49% to 30.51% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-a5s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-a6s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a7s-vs-k9s.md"] --- # KQo vs K9s: preflop equity KQo is a big favorite over K9s before the flop: 69.49% to 30.51% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Dealt all in against each other, KQo takes 69.49% of the pot on average and K9s takes the other 30.51%. ## KQo against K9s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for KQo against K9s, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KQo | 66.780 | 5.421 | 27.799 | 69.490 | | K9s | 27.799 | 5.421 | 66.780 | 30.510 | KQo, an offsuit hand, plays K9s, a suited hand. The two hands share a rank, and the one with the better other card dominates: it wins most kicker battles when that shared rank hits. A lead of 38.98 points is large but not decisive: K9s still takes about 278 of every 1,000 deals. Split pots make up 5.42% of the boards, and both equity figures count them as half a win each. Place 23 of 169 belongs to KQo and place 29 belongs to K9s in the ranking against a random hand. **Boards behind the percentages: 61,642,944 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KQo | 41,165,000 | 3,342,000 | 17,136,000 | | K9s | 17,136,000 | 3,342,000 | 41,165,000 | 36 specific deals times 1,712,304 boards gives the exact total. The won, tied and lost counts are approximations from the five-decimal percentages, rounded to the nearest thousand. **KQo against K9s 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 | 2.278 | 1.497 | 3.597 | 0.439 | | K9s | 0.439 | 3.597 | 1.497 | 2.278 | The last column is the break-even price: the pot odds a call needs to offer, as a ratio of pot to call. ## Who is ahead on which flops The flop changes the picture. KQo does best on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better, at 76.21%, and worst on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower), at 59.09%. KQo stays ahead on all five textures, but the swing between them is large, so how the flop looks matters a great deal. **KQo against K9s by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | KQo wins | Ties | K9s wins | KQo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.905 | 74.354 | 3.709 | 21.937 | 76.208 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.042 | 57.647 | 2.883 | 39.470 | 59.089 | | Two-tone | 46.527 | 66.836 | 3.343 | 29.821 | 68.507 | | Monotone | 5.192 | 61.968 | 4.613 | 33.419 | 64.275 | | Paired | 17.334 | 61.338 | 14.629 | 24.033 | 68.653 | 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 Start from the random-hand figures, 61.46% for KQo and 59.99% for K9s. This opponent changes them by +8.03 and -29.48 points. **KQo and K9s 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 | 69.490 | 61.456 | +8.034 | 1.13073 | | KQo, rainbow, ten or higher | 76.208 | 61.456 | +14.752 | 1.24004 | | KQo, rainbow, nine or lower | 59.089 | 61.456 | -2.367 | 0.96148 | | KQo, two-tone | 68.507 | 61.456 | +7.051 | 1.11473 | | KQo, monotone | 64.275 | 61.456 | +2.819 | 1.04587 | | KQo, paired | 68.653 | 61.456 | +7.197 | 1.11711 | | K9s, all flops | 30.510 | 59.988 | -29.478 | 0.50860 | | K9s, rainbow, ten or higher | 23.792 | 59.988 | -36.196 | 0.39661 | | K9s, rainbow, nine or lower | 40.911 | 59.988 | -19.077 | 0.68199 | | K9s, two-tone | 31.493 | 59.988 | -28.495 | 0.52499 | | K9s, monotone | 35.725 | 59.988 | -24.263 | 0.59554 | | K9s, paired | 31.347 | 59.988 | -28.641 | 0.52255 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Does suit overlap move the numbers? KQo has 70.27% when the hands share a suit and 69.10% when they do not. KQo does better with a shared suit, by 1.17 points. **KQo against K9s by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | KQo wins | Ties | K9s wins | KQo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 12 | 33.33 | 67.512 | 5.513 | 26.975 | 70.269 | | No shared suit | 24 | 66.67 | 66.414 | 5.374 | 28.212 | 69.101 | ## How often this matchup comes up The class pair covers 36 combinations of specific cards in a fixed seat order, 0.0022% of 1,624,350, and 72 (0.0044%) in either order. ## A worked example Take a $200 pot built from $100 each. KQo's equity of 69.49% is worth $138.98, a $38.98 edge, and K9s' 30.51% is worth $61.02, which is $38.98 under its stake. Run 1,000 deals and the tally comes out near 668 for KQo, 278 for K9s and 54 ties. ## The same matchup from the other side K9s against KQo adds nothing new: it is 30.51% for K9s and 69.49% for KQo, the same figures reversed. ## Keep exploring Open the calculator with KsQh against Kd9d already entered, a deal with no shared suit, and change any card to try your own hand. The matchups after it each swap one hand for a nearby one in the ranking. - [Open KsQh against Kd9d in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=KsQh&p2=Kd9d) - [KQo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/kqo.md) - [K9s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/k9s.md) - [KQo vs A5s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-a5s.md) - [KQo vs A6s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-a6s.md) - [A7s vs K9s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a7s-vs-k9s.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed Each figure is a complete count over boards. Take the 36 specific deals, group them by suit pattern, deal all 1,712,304 boards against each, and compare the two seven-card hands. Equity counts a tie as half a win; the flop rows use every one of a board's ten flops. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [KQo vs A5s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-a5s.md) - [KQo vs A6s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-a6s.md) - [A7s vs K9s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a7s-vs-k9s.md)