--- title: "KQo vs KTo: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-kto.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-kto" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "KQo is a big favorite over KTo before the flop: 73.62% to 26.38% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-qts.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-a4s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a7s-vs-kto.md"] --- # KQo vs KTo: preflop equity KQo is a big favorite over KTo before the flop: 73.62% to 26.38% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Counting every board, the equity split is 73.62% for KQo and 26.38% for KTo, so KQo leads by 47.24 points. ## KQo against KTo: the numbers **Exact preflop results for KQo against KTo, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KQo | 70.826 | 5.596 | 23.578 | 73.624 | | KTo | 23.578 | 5.596 | 70.826 | 26.376 | The matchup is offsuit hands on both sides, KQo against KTo. Because the hands share one rank, the one with the higher kicker is ahead when that rank pairs and the other hand is mostly drawing. That is a clear edge, 73.62% to 26.38%, but KTo still wins often enough that one hand proves nothing. Of every 100 boards, about 5.60 are split pots, and the equity figures already include them. Ranked by equity against a random hand, KQo is number 23 of the 169 starting hands and KTo is number 33. **Boards behind the percentages: 184,928,832 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KQo | 130,978,000 | 10,349,000 | 43,603,000 | | KTo | 43,603,000 | 10,349,000 | 130,978,000 | 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. **KQo against KTo 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 | 2.791 | 1.412 | 4.241 | 0.358 | | KTo | 0.358 | 4.241 | 1.412 | 2.791 | The last column is the smallest pot odds, written as a pot-to-call ratio, at which a call breaks even with this equity. ## Who is ahead on which flops Across the five flop textures KQo's equity moves by 15.10 points, from 68.55% on monotone flops to 83.65% 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. **KQo against KTo by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | KQo wins | Ties | KTo wins | KQo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.275 | 69.907 | 3.420 | 26.673 | 71.617 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.771 | 81.757 | 3.795 | 14.448 | 83.654 | | Two-tone | 46.477 | 72.200 | 3.463 | 24.337 | 73.932 | | Monotone | 5.144 | 66.352 | 4.397 | 29.251 | 68.550 | | Paired | 17.333 | 64.804 | 15.401 | 19.795 | 72.504 | 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 KTo 59.74%. Against each other the change is +12.16 points for KQo and -33.36 for KTo. **KQo and KTo 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 | 73.624 | 61.456 | +12.168 | 1.19800 | | KQo, rainbow, ten or higher | 71.617 | 61.456 | +10.161 | 1.16534 | | KQo, rainbow, nine or lower | 83.654 | 61.456 | +22.198 | 1.36120 | | KQo, two-tone | 73.932 | 61.456 | +12.476 | 1.20301 | | KQo, monotone | 68.550 | 61.456 | +7.094 | 1.11543 | | KQo, paired | 72.504 | 61.456 | +11.048 | 1.17977 | | KTo, all flops | 26.376 | 59.739 | -33.363 | 0.44152 | | KTo, rainbow, ten or higher | 28.383 | 59.739 | -31.356 | 0.47512 | | KTo, rainbow, nine or lower | 16.346 | 59.739 | -43.393 | 0.27362 | | KTo, two-tone | 26.068 | 59.739 | -33.671 | 0.43636 | | KTo, monotone | 31.450 | 59.739 | -28.289 | 0.52646 | | KTo, paired | 27.496 | 59.739 | -32.243 | 0.46027 | ## Does a shared suit matter? When the hands share a suit, KQo holds 73.73%; when they do not, it holds 73.26%. KQo does better with a shared suit, by 0.47 points. **KQo against KTo by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | KQo wins | Ties | KTo wins | KQo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 84 | 77.78 | 70.918 | 5.622 | 23.460 | 73.729 | | No shared suit | 24 | 22.22 | 70.505 | 5.504 | 23.991 | 73.257 | ## How often this matchup comes up Counting specific cards, KQo against KTo appears in 108 of the 1,624,350 ordered heads-up deals (0.0066%), and in 216 when the seats are swapped too (0.0133%). ## A worked example A $100 all-in from each player makes a $200 pot, and the exact equity says KQo gets $147.24 of it on average and KTo gets $52.76. In 1,000 deals of exactly this matchup, expect about 708 won outright by KQo, about 236 won outright by KTo and about 56 split. ## The same matchup from the other side The mirror image, KTo against KQo, is 26.38% to 73.62%, and its address redirects to this page. ## Keep exploring Open the calculator with KsQh against KdTc 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 KdTc in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=KsQh&p2=KdTc) - [KQo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/kqo.md) - [KTo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/kto.md) - [KQo vs QTs](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-qts.md) - [KQo vs A4s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-a4s.md) - [A7s vs KTo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a7s-vs-kto.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed Each figure is a complete count over boards. Take the 108 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 QTs: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-qts.md) - [KQo vs A4s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-a4s.md) - [A7s vs KTo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a7s-vs-kto.md)