--- title: "KQs vs JTo: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqs-vs-jto.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqs-vs-jto" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "KQs is a big favorite over JTo before the flop: 66.20% to 33.81% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqs-vs-t9s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqs-vs-33.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/66-vs-jto.md"] --- # KQs vs JTo: preflop equity KQs is a big favorite over JTo before the flop: 66.20% to 33.81% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. The exact count puts KQs at 66.20% and JTo at 33.80% when the two hands see all five board cards. ## KQs against JTo: the numbers **Exact preflop results for KQs against JTo, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KQs | 65.852 | 0.686 | 33.462 | 66.195 | | JTo | 33.462 | 0.686 | 65.852 | 33.805 | The first hand is a suited hand; the second is an offsuit hand. Neither hand shares a rank with the other, so this is a contest of high cards, connection and suits. A lead of 32.40 points is large but not decisive: JTo still takes about 335 of every 1,000 deals. Ties are part of the picture: 0.69% of boards end in a split pot, and each side counts that as half a win. The hand ranking puts KQs at 16 and JTo at 57 out of 169 starting hands. **Boards behind the percentages: 82,190,592 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KQs | 54,124,000 | 564,000 | 27,503,000 | | JTo | 27,503,000 | 564,000 | 54,124,000 | The board total is exact, 48 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 JTo 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 | 1.958 | 1.519 | 2.988 | 0.511 | | JTo | 0.511 | 2.988 | 1.519 | 1.958 | 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 Break the boards down by their first three cards and KQs is strongest on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) (71.56%) and weakest on monotone flops (61.78%). KQs stays ahead on all five textures. **KQs against JTo by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | KQs wins | Ties | JTo wins | KQs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.260 | 63.317 | 0.262 | 36.421 | 63.448 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.770 | 71.095 | 0.935 | 27.970 | 71.562 | | Two-tone | 46.667 | 66.223 | 0.396 | 33.381 | 66.421 | | Monotone | 5.212 | 60.549 | 2.463 | 36.988 | 61.780 | | Paired | 17.091 | 67.523 | 1.402 | 31.075 | 68.224 | 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 The table below sets each hand against its own random-hand baseline: a change of +2.80 points for KQs, from 63.40%, and -21.45 for JTo, from 55.25%. **KQs and JTo 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 | 66.195 | 63.400 | +2.795 | 1.04409 | | KQs, rainbow, ten or higher | 63.448 | 63.400 | +0.048 | 1.00076 | | KQs, rainbow, nine or lower | 71.562 | 63.400 | +8.162 | 1.12874 | | KQs, two-tone | 66.421 | 63.400 | +3.021 | 1.04765 | | KQs, monotone | 61.780 | 63.400 | -1.620 | 0.97445 | | KQs, paired | 68.224 | 63.400 | +4.824 | 1.07609 | | JTo, all flops | 33.805 | 55.248 | -21.443 | 0.61188 | | JTo, rainbow, ten or higher | 36.552 | 55.248 | -18.696 | 0.66160 | | JTo, rainbow, nine or lower | 28.438 | 55.248 | -26.810 | 0.51473 | | JTo, two-tone | 33.579 | 55.248 | -21.669 | 0.60779 | | JTo, monotone | 38.220 | 55.248 | -17.028 | 0.69179 | | JTo, paired | 31.776 | 55.248 | -23.472 | 0.57515 | ## Does a shared suit matter? The suit split reads 66.03% for KQs with a shared suit and 66.37% without one. KQs does better with no shared suit, by 0.34 points. **KQs against JTo by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | KQs wins | Ties | JTo wins | KQs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 24 | 50.00 | 65.662 | 0.726 | 33.612 | 66.025 | | No shared suit | 24 | 50.00 | 66.042 | 0.647 | 33.311 | 66.365 | ## How often this matchup comes up How often does it happen? 48 of the 1,624,350 ordered deals (0.0030%) are KQs against JTo, and 96 (0.0059%) if either hand may sit in either seat. ## A worked example Try it with money: two players each put in $100 and the whole board runs out every possible way. KQs averages $132.40 from the $200, up $32.40; JTo averages $67.60, down $32.40. Run 1,000 deals and the tally comes out near 658 for KQs, 335 for JTo and 7 ties. ## The same matchup from the other side JTo versus KQs is this same page seen from the other hand: 33.80% for JTo, 66.20% for KQs. ## Keep exploring Open the calculator with KsQs against JhTd 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 KsQs against JhTd in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=KsQs&p2=JhTd) - [KQs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/kqs.md) - [JTo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/jto.md) - [KQs vs T9s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqs-vs-t9s.md) - [KQs vs 33](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqs-vs-33.md) - [66 vs JTo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/66-vs-jto.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed Nothing here is simulated. The 48 deals of KQs against JTo 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 T9s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqs-vs-t9s.md) - [KQs vs 33: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqs-vs-33.md) - [66 vs JTo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/66-vs-jto.md)