--- title: "KQo vs QTs: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-qts.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-qts" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "KQo is a big favorite over QTs before the flop: 69.56% to 30.44% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-a4s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-a3s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a7s-vs-qts.md"] --- # KQo vs QTs: preflop equity KQo is a big favorite over QTs before the flop: 69.56% to 30.44% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. The exact count puts KQo at 69.56% and QTs at 30.44% when the two hands see all five board cards. ## KQo against QTs: the numbers **Exact preflop results for KQo against QTs, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KQo | 68.342 | 2.440 | 29.218 | 69.562 | | QTs | 29.218 | 2.440 | 68.342 | 30.438 | Here an offsuit hand (KQo) meets a suited hand (QTs). 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, 69.56% to 30.44%, but QTs still wins often enough that one hand proves nothing. 2.44% of boards are ties, so the equity of each hand is its win rate plus half of that. Place 23 of 169 belongs to KQo and place 34 belongs to QTs 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 | 42,128,000 | 1,504,000 | 18,011,000 | | QTs | 18,011,000 | 1,504,000 | 42,128,000 | The total is exact: 36 specific deals times 1,712,304 boards. The three counts are approximate, worked out from the percentages to five decimals and rounded to the nearest thousand. **KQo against QTs 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 | 2.285 | 1.463 | 3.423 | 0.438 | | QTs | 0.438 | 3.423 | 1.463 | 2.285 | 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 The flop changes the picture. KQo does best on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower), at 80.31%, and worst on monotone flops, at 65.01%. 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 QTs by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | KQo wins | Ties | QTs wins | KQo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.177 | 67.056 | 2.303 | 30.641 | 68.208 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.771 | 79.797 | 1.022 | 19.181 | 80.308 | | Two-tone | 46.527 | 66.841 | 1.883 | 31.276 | 67.782 | | Monotone | 5.192 | 63.283 | 3.463 | 33.254 | 65.014 | | Paired | 17.333 | 70.472 | 4.445 | 25.083 | 72.694 | Read the flop types this way: rainbow has three suits, two-tone has two cards of one suit, monotone has three, and paired repeats a rank. ## Compared with a random hand The table below sets each hand against its own random-hand baseline: a change of +8.10 points for KQo, from 61.46%, and -29.03 for QTs, from 59.47%. **KQo and QTs 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 | 69.562 | 61.456 | +8.106 | 1.13190 | | KQo, rainbow, ten or higher | 68.208 | 61.456 | +6.752 | 1.10987 | | KQo, rainbow, nine or lower | 80.308 | 61.456 | +18.852 | 1.30676 | | KQo, two-tone | 67.782 | 61.456 | +6.326 | 1.10294 | | KQo, monotone | 65.014 | 61.456 | +3.558 | 1.05790 | | KQo, paired | 72.694 | 61.456 | +11.238 | 1.18286 | | QTs, all flops | 30.438 | 59.468 | -29.030 | 0.51184 | | QTs, rainbow, ten or higher | 31.792 | 59.468 | -27.676 | 0.53461 | | QTs, rainbow, nine or lower | 19.692 | 59.468 | -39.776 | 0.33114 | | QTs, two-tone | 32.218 | 59.468 | -27.250 | 0.54177 | | QTs, monotone | 34.986 | 59.468 | -24.482 | 0.58832 | | QTs, paired | 27.306 | 59.468 | -32.162 | 0.45917 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Does suit overlap move the numbers? KQo has 70.57% when the hands share a suit and 69.06% when they do not. KQo does better with a shared suit, by 1.51 points. **KQo against QTs by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | KQo wins | Ties | QTs wins | KQo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 12 | 33.33 | 69.308 | 2.520 | 28.172 | 70.568 | | No shared suit | 24 | 66.67 | 67.859 | 2.399 | 29.742 | 69.059 | ## How often this matchup comes up KQo against QTs is made up of 36 specific-card matchups in one seat order, 0.0022% of the 1,624,350 ordered deals, and 72 counting both seat orders, 0.0044%. ## A worked example A $100 all-in from each player makes a $200 pot, and the exact equity says KQo gets $139.12 of it on average and QTs gets $60.88. Scaled to 1,000 deals, that is roughly 684 wins for KQo, 292 for QTs and 24 chopped pots. ## The same matchup from the other side Swap the hands and you get QTs with 30.44% against KQo with 69.56%. We keep one page per matchup, with the better-ranked hand first. ## Keep exploring Open the calculator with KsQh against QdTd 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 QdTd in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=KsQh&p2=QdTd) - [KQo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/kqo.md) - [QTs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/qts.md) - [KQo vs A4s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-a4s.md) - [KQo vs A3s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-a3s.md) - [A7s vs QTs](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a7s-vs-qts.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed Method: exact enumeration. The 36 specific deals are grouped by suit pattern, each is run against all 1,712,304 boards, and both seven-card hands are scored. Equity adds half of every tie, and flop textures are tallied over the ten flops inside each board. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [KQo vs A4s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-a4s.md) - [KQo vs A3s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-a3s.md) - [A7s vs QTs: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a7s-vs-qts.md)