--- title: "KQo vs QTo: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-qto.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-qto" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "KQo is a big favorite over QTo before the flop: 73.80% to 26.20% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-44.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-j9s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a7s-vs-qto.md"] --- # KQo vs QTo: preflop equity KQo is a big favorite over QTo before the flop: 73.80% to 26.20% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. The exact count puts KQo at 73.80% and QTo at 26.20% when the two hands see all five board cards. ## KQo against QTo: the numbers **Exact preflop results for KQo against QTo, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KQo | 72.558 | 2.486 | 24.956 | 73.801 | | QTo | 24.956 | 2.486 | 72.558 | 26.199 | This is a contest between two offsuit hands, KQo and QTo. 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. That is a clear edge, 73.80% to 26.20%, but QTo still wins often enough that one hand proves nothing. Split pots make up 2.49% of the boards, and both equity figures count them as half a win each. In the ranking of all 169 starting hands, KQo is number 23 and QTo is number 47. **Boards behind the percentages: 184,928,832 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KQo | 134,181,000 | 4,597,000 | 46,151,000 | | QTo | 46,151,000 | 4,597,000 | 134,181,000 | Exact total: 108 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 QTo 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 | 2.817 | 1.378 | 4.007 | 0.355 | | QTo | 0.355 | 4.007 | 1.378 | 2.817 | 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 Low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) are the best for KQo (83.27%); monotone flops are the worst (70.04%). KQo stays ahead on all five textures. **KQo against QTo by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | KQo wins | Ties | QTo wins | KQo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.275 | 69.158 | 2.348 | 28.494 | 70.332 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.771 | 82.734 | 1.068 | 16.198 | 83.268 | | Two-tone | 46.477 | 72.208 | 1.976 | 25.816 | 73.196 | | Monotone | 5.144 | 68.586 | 2.912 | 28.502 | 70.042 | | Paired | 17.333 | 74.681 | 4.547 | 20.772 | 76.955 | Rainbow flops have three suits, two-tone flops repeat one suit, monotone flops are all one suit, and paired flops repeat a rank. ## Compared with a random hand Against one random hand instead, KQo holds 61.46% and QTo holds 57.29%. Facing each other changes that by +12.34 points for KQo and -31.09 points for QTo. **KQo and QTo 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 | 73.801 | 61.456 | +12.345 | 1.20088 | | KQo, rainbow, ten or higher | 70.332 | 61.456 | +8.876 | 1.14443 | | KQo, rainbow, nine or lower | 83.268 | 61.456 | +21.812 | 1.35492 | | KQo, two-tone | 73.196 | 61.456 | +11.740 | 1.19103 | | KQo, monotone | 70.042 | 61.456 | +8.586 | 1.13971 | | KQo, paired | 76.955 | 61.456 | +15.499 | 1.25220 | | QTo, all flops | 26.199 | 57.291 | -31.092 | 0.45730 | | QTo, rainbow, ten or higher | 29.668 | 57.291 | -27.623 | 0.51785 | | QTo, rainbow, nine or lower | 16.732 | 57.291 | -40.559 | 0.29205 | | QTo, two-tone | 26.804 | 57.291 | -30.487 | 0.46786 | | QTo, monotone | 29.958 | 57.291 | -27.333 | 0.52291 | | QTo, paired | 23.045 | 57.291 | -34.246 | 0.40224 | ## Does a shared suit matter? The suit split reads 73.97% for KQo with a shared suit and 73.21% without one. KQo does better with a shared suit, by 0.76 points. **KQo against QTo by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | KQo wins | Ties | QTo wins | KQo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 84 | 77.78 | 72.714 | 2.512 | 24.774 | 73.970 | | No shared suit | 24 | 22.22 | 72.011 | 2.395 | 25.594 | 73.208 | ## 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 QTo in the other (0.0066%); with the seats swapped too, 216 (0.0133%). ## A worked example Worked example: both players commit $100, so $200 sits in the middle. Over every board, KQo's average share is $147.60 (a gain of $47.60) and QTo's is $52.40 (a loss of $47.60). In 1,000 deals of exactly this matchup, expect about 726 won outright by KQo, about 249 won outright by QTo and about 25 split. ## The same matchup from the other side QTo against KQo adds nothing new: it is 26.20% for QTo and 73.80% for KQo, the same figures reversed. ## Keep exploring KsQh against QdTc is a ready-made deal for the calculator, with no suit in common between the hands. The neighboring matchups below replace one hand with another of similar strength. - [Open KsQh against QdTc in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=KsQh&p2=QdTc) - [KQo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/kqo.md) - [QTo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/qto.md) - [KQo vs 44](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-44.md) - [KQo vs J9s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-j9s.md) - [A7s vs QTo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a7s-vs-qto.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed The figures are counted, not estimated: 1,712,304 boards for every suit pattern of the 108 specific deals, with both seven-card hands compared each time. Equity gives half a win for a tie. For the flop rows, a board is counted once under each of the ten flops inside it. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [KQo vs 44: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-44.md) - [KQo vs J9s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-j9s.md) - [A7s vs QTo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a7s-vs-qto.md)