--- title: "KQs vs 75s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqs-vs-75s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqs-vs-75s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "KQs is a big favorite over 75s before the flop: 62.71% to 37.29% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqs-vs-65s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqs-vs-54s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/66-vs-75s.md"] --- # KQs vs 75s: preflop equity KQs is a big favorite over 75s before the flop: 62.71% to 37.29% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Averaged over every possible board, KQs is ahead of 75s by 25.42 points of equity, 62.71% to 37.29%. ## KQs against 75s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for KQs against 75s, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KQs | 62.355 | 0.710 | 36.935 | 62.710 | | 75s | 36.935 | 0.710 | 62.355 | 37.290 | This is a contest between two suited hands, KQs and 75s. The two hands share no rank, which makes this a pure matchup of card strength, straight chances and flush chances. That is a modest edge, the kind that shows up over many hands and is easy to miss in one. Split pots make up 0.71% of the boards, and both equity figures count them as half a win each. By strength against a random hand, KQs holds place 16 of 169 and 75s holds place 124. **Boards behind the percentages: 27,396,864 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KQs | 17,083,000 | 195,000 | 10,119,000 | | 75s | 10,119,000 | 195,000 | 17,083,000 | 16 specific deals times 1,712,304 boards gives the exact total. The won, tied and lost counts are approximations from the five-decimal percentages, rounded to the nearest thousand. **KQs against 75s 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 | 1.682 | 1.604 | 2.707 | 0.595 | | 75s | 0.595 | 2.707 | 1.604 | 1.682 | The final column gives the least the pot must offer for each unit called for a call to break even at this equity. ## Who is ahead on which flops The flop changes the picture. KQs does best on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better, at 70.10%, and worst on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower), at 35.07%. Watch for low rainbow flops (nine high or lower): on those flops 75s holds the better equity. **KQs against 75s by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | KQs wins | Ties | 75s wins | KQs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 24.595 | 69.951 | 0.302 | 29.747 | 70.102 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 6.314 | 34.695 | 0.745 | 64.560 | 35.067 | | Two-tone | 46.727 | 61.880 | 0.361 | 37.759 | 62.060 | | Monotone | 5.273 | 58.246 | 3.504 | 38.250 | 59.998 | | Paired | 17.091 | 64.209 | 1.374 | 34.417 | 64.896 | 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 The table below sets each hand against its own random-hand baseline: a change of -0.69 points for KQs, from 63.40%, and -6.39 for 75s, from 43.68%. **KQs and 75s 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 | 62.710 | 63.400 | -0.690 | 0.98912 | | KQs, rainbow, ten or higher | 70.102 | 63.400 | +6.702 | 1.10571 | | KQs, rainbow, nine or lower | 35.067 | 63.400 | -28.333 | 0.55311 | | KQs, two-tone | 62.060 | 63.400 | -1.340 | 0.97886 | | KQs, monotone | 59.998 | 63.400 | -3.402 | 0.94634 | | KQs, paired | 64.896 | 63.400 | +1.496 | 1.02360 | | 75s, all flops | 37.290 | 43.676 | -6.386 | 0.85379 | | 75s, rainbow, ten or higher | 29.898 | 43.676 | -13.778 | 0.68454 | | 75s, rainbow, nine or lower | 64.933 | 43.676 | +21.257 | 1.48670 | | 75s, two-tone | 37.940 | 43.676 | -5.736 | 0.86867 | | 75s, monotone | 40.002 | 43.676 | -3.674 | 0.91588 | | 75s, paired | 35.104 | 43.676 | -8.572 | 0.80374 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Suit overlap shows up in the numbers. With a suit in common KQs has 64.99% equity, and with none in common it has 61.95%. KQs does better with a shared suit, by 3.04 points. **KQs against 75s by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | KQs wins | Ties | 75s wins | KQs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 4 | 25.00 | 64.593 | 0.801 | 34.606 | 64.994 | | No shared suit | 12 | 75.00 | 61.609 | 0.679 | 37.712 | 61.949 | ## How often this matchup comes up KQs against 75s is made up of 16 specific-card matchups in one seat order, 0.0010% of the 1,624,350 ordered deals, and 32 counting both seat orders, 0.0020%. ## A worked example Put $100 each into a $200 pot and deal every board once: KQs averages $125.42 back, ahead of its $100 by $25.42, while 75s averages $74.58, short of its $100 by $25.42. Over a long run, 1,000 deals split into about 624 for KQs, 369 for 75s and 7 tied. ## The same matchup from the other side 75s against KQs adds nothing new: it is 37.29% for 75s and 62.71% for KQs, the same figures reversed. ## Keep exploring Try KsQs against 7h5h 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. - [Open KsQs against 7h5h in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=KsQs&p2=7h5h) - [KQs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/kqs.md) - [75s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/75s.md) - [KQs vs 65s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqs-vs-65s.md) - [KQs vs 54s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqs-vs-54s.md) - [66 vs 75s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/66-vs-75s.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 16 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 - [KQs vs 65s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqs-vs-65s.md) - [KQs vs 54s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqs-vs-54s.md) - [66 vs 75s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/66-vs-75s.md)