--- title: "KQs vs 64s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqs-vs-64s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqs-vs-64s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "KQs is a big favorite over 64s before the flop: 62.78% to 37.22% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqs-vs-53s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqs-vs-43s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/66-vs-64s.md"] --- # KQs vs 64s: preflop equity KQs is a big favorite over 64s before the flop: 62.78% to 37.22% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. If KQs and 64s get all the chips in before the flop, KQs owns 62.78% of the pot in the long run and 64s owns 37.22%. ## KQs against 64s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for KQs against 64s, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KQs | 62.420 | 0.713 | 36.867 | 62.776 | | 64s | 36.867 | 0.713 | 62.420 | 37.224 | Each side holds one of the suited hands: KQs and 64s. With no overlap in ranks, every card that pairs one hand is a card that does not pair the other. The lead is steady rather than large, and the flop still has plenty of say in who wins. Ties are 0.71% of the outcomes here; each tied board gives both hands half the pot. The hand ranking puts KQs at 16 and 64s at 138 out of 169 starting hands. **Boards behind the percentages: 27,396,864 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KQs | 17,101,000 | 195,000 | 10,100,000 | | 64s | 10,100,000 | 195,000 | 17,101,000 | The board total is exact, 16 deals at 1,712,304 boards each. Won, tied and lost counts are rounded to the nearest thousand from the five-decimal percentages. **KQs against 64s read as odds** | Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KQs | 1.686 | 1.602 | 2.712 | 0.593 | | 64s | 0.593 | 2.712 | 1.602 | 1.686 | 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 Split by what the flop looks like, KQs peaks at 70.11% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better and bottoms out at 35.22% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower). The lead reverses on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower): there 64s is the favorite even though KQs is ahead overall. **KQs against 64s by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | KQs wins | Ties | 64s wins | KQs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 24.595 | 69.974 | 0.264 | 29.762 | 70.106 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 6.314 | 34.767 | 0.895 | 64.338 | 35.215 | | Two-tone | 46.727 | 61.911 | 0.361 | 37.728 | 62.092 | | Monotone | 5.273 | 58.271 | 3.532 | 38.197 | 60.037 | | Paired | 17.091 | 64.437 | 1.382 | 34.181 | 65.128 | 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 KQs 63.40% and 64s 41.33%. Against each other the change is -0.62 points for KQs and -4.11 for 64s. **KQs and 64s 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KQs, all flops | 62.776 | 63.400 | -0.624 | 0.99016 | | KQs, rainbow, ten or higher | 70.106 | 63.400 | +6.706 | 1.10577 | | KQs, rainbow, nine or lower | 35.215 | 63.400 | -28.185 | 0.55544 | | KQs, two-tone | 62.092 | 63.400 | -1.308 | 0.97937 | | KQs, monotone | 60.037 | 63.400 | -3.363 | 0.94696 | | KQs, paired | 65.128 | 63.400 | +1.728 | 1.02726 | | 64s, all flops | 37.224 | 41.333 | -4.109 | 0.90059 | | 64s, rainbow, ten or higher | 29.894 | 41.333 | -11.439 | 0.72325 | | 64s, rainbow, nine or lower | 64.785 | 41.333 | +23.452 | 1.56739 | | 64s, two-tone | 37.908 | 41.333 | -3.425 | 0.91714 | | 64s, monotone | 39.963 | 41.333 | -1.370 | 0.96685 | | 64s, paired | 34.872 | 41.333 | -6.461 | 0.84368 | ## Does a shared suit matter? The suit split reads 65.06% for KQs with a shared suit and 62.01% without one. KQs does better with a shared suit, by 3.05 points. **KQs against 64s by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | KQs wins | Ties | 64s wins | KQs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 4 | 25.00 | 64.663 | 0.803 | 34.534 | 65.064 | | No shared suit | 12 | 75.00 | 61.672 | 0.683 | 37.645 | 62.014 | ## How often this matchup comes up Counting specific cards, KQs against 64s appears in 16 of the 1,624,350 ordered heads-up deals (0.0010%), and in 32 when the seats are swapped too (0.0020%). ## A worked example Try it with money: two players each put in $100 and the whole board runs out every possible way. KQs averages $125.56 from the $200, up $25.56; 64s averages $74.44, down $25.56. Over a long run, 1,000 deals split into about 624 for KQs, 369 for 64s and 7 tied. ## The same matchup from the other side 64s versus KQs is this same page seen from the other hand: 37.22% for 64s, 62.78% for KQs. ## Keep exploring KsQs against 6h4h 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 KsQs against 6h4h in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=KsQs&p2=6h4h) - [KQs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/kqs.md) - [64s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/64s.md) - [KQs vs 53s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqs-vs-53s.md) - [KQs vs 43s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqs-vs-43s.md) - [66 vs 64s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/66-vs-64s.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed Nothing here is simulated. The 16 deals of KQs against 64s fall into a few suit patterns, each dealt against all 1,712,304 boards, with both best five-card hands compared on every board. Ties give each hand half a win, and the flop rows count a board under each of its ten flops. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [KQs vs 53s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqs-vs-53s.md) - [KQs vs 43s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqs-vs-43s.md) - [66 vs 64s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/66-vs-64s.md)