KQs
49.09%
Wins 48.85%, ties 0.47%
66
50.91%
Wins 50.68%, ties 0.47%
KQs against 66: the numbers
| Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KQs | 48.852 | 0.466 | 50.682 | 49.085 |
| 66 | 50.682 | 0.466 | 48.852 | 50.915 |
One side is a suited hand, the other is a pocket pair. This is a pair against two overcards, a matchup that stays close because the other hand only needs one of its ranks to appear.
That is a slim edge: neither hand is far ahead. 0.47% of boards are ties, so the equity of each hand is its win rate plus half of that.
By strength against a random hand, KQs holds place 16 of 169 and 66 holds place 17.
| Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about |
|---|---|---|---|
| KQs | 20,076,000 | 192,000 | 20,828,000 |
| 66 | 20,828,000 | 192,000 | 20,076,000 |
Exact total: 24 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.
| Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KQs | 0.964 | 2.047 | 1.973 | 1.037 |
| 66 | 1.037 | 1.973 | 2.047 | 0.964 |
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, 66 peaks at 78.43% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) and bottoms out at 44.39% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better. 66 is the favorite overall but falls behind on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better and two-tone flops.
| Flop | Share of flops | KQs wins | Ties | 66 wins | KQs equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rainbow, ten or higher | 24.595 | 55.522 | 0.169 | 44.309 | 55.606 |
| Rainbow, nine or lower | 6.314 | 21.201 | 0.745 | 78.054 | 21.574 |
| Two-tone | 46.545 | 50.664 | 0.269 | 49.067 | 50.798 |
| Monotone | 5.212 | 48.168 | 2.465 | 49.367 | 49.401 |
| Paired | 17.334 | 44.803 | 0.713 | 54.484 | 45.159 |
Flop types: rainbow means three different suits, two-tone means one suit twice, monotone means one suit three times, paired means a repeated rank.
Compared with a random hand
Against one random hand instead, KQs holds 63.40% and 66 holds 63.29%. Facing each other changes that by -14.31 points for KQs and -12.38 points for 66.
| Case | Equity here | Against a random hand | Change in points | Times the random-hand equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KQs, all flops | 49.085 | 63.400 | -14.315 | 0.77421 |
| KQs, rainbow, ten or higher | 55.606 | 63.400 | -7.794 | 0.87707 |
| KQs, rainbow, nine or lower | 21.574 | 63.400 | -41.826 | 0.34028 |
| KQs, two-tone | 50.798 | 63.400 | -12.602 | 0.80123 |
| KQs, monotone | 49.401 | 63.400 | -13.999 | 0.77920 |
| KQs, paired | 45.159 | 63.400 | -18.241 | 0.71229 |
| 66, all flops | 50.915 | 63.285 | -12.370 | 0.80454 |
| 66, rainbow, ten or higher | 44.394 | 63.285 | -18.891 | 0.70149 |
| 66, rainbow, nine or lower | 78.426 | 63.285 | +15.141 | 1.23925 |
| 66, two-tone | 49.202 | 63.285 | -14.083 | 0.77747 |
| 66, monotone | 50.599 | 63.285 | -12.686 | 0.79954 |
| 66, paired | 54.841 | 63.285 | -8.444 | 0.86657 |
Does a shared suit matter?
Two kinds of deal exist here. In 12 of them the hands share a suit and 66 holds 51.09%. In 12 they do not, and it holds 50.74%. 66 does better with a shared suit, by 0.35 points.
| Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | KQs wins | Ties | 66 wins | KQs equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Share a suit | 12 | 50.00 | 48.656 | 0.510 | 50.834 | 48.911 |
| No shared suit | 12 | 50.00 | 49.049 | 0.421 | 50.530 | 49.260 |
How often this matchup comes up
Counting specific cards, KQs against 66 appears in 24 of the 1,624,350 ordered heads-up deals (0.0015%), and in 48 when the seats are swapped too (0.0030%).
A worked example
Put $100 each into a $200 pot and deal every board once: 66 averages $101.82 back, ahead of its $100 by $1.82, while KQs averages $98.18, short of its $100 by $1.82.
Per 1,000 deals: 66 wins about 507, KQs wins about 488, and about 5 end in a split pot.
The same matchup from the other side
Read it from the other side: 66 against KQs is the same matchup with the numbers swapped, so 66 holds 50.91% and KQs holds 49.09%. That address sends you back to this page.
Keep exploring
Try KsQs against 6h6d in the calculator: the hands share no suit, and every card can be changed. The links after it are the closest matchups in the ranking.
How this was computed
We counted every case. Each suit pattern of the 24 specific KQs against 66 deals meets all 1,712,304 boards, and the better five-card hand wins; a split pot is half a win each. The flop table reads each board under all ten of its three-card flops.
Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used.
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