--- title: "KQs vs JTs: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqs-vs-jts.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqs-vs-jts" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "KQs is a big favorite over JTs before the flop: 63.34% to 36.66% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqs-vs-a2s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqs-vs-qto.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/66-vs-jts.md"] --- # KQs vs JTs: preflop equity KQs is a big favorite over JTs before the flop: 63.34% to 36.66% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Counting every board, the equity split is 63.34% for KQs and 36.66% for JTs, so KQs leads by 26.68 points. ## KQs against JTs: the numbers **Exact preflop results for KQs against JTs, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KQs | 62.979 | 0.718 | 36.303 | 63.338 | | JTs | 36.303 | 0.718 | 62.979 | 36.662 | Each side holds one of the suited hands: KQs and JTs. With no overlap in ranks, every card that pairs one hand is a card that does not pair the other. That is a modest edge, the kind that shows up over many hands and is easy to miss in one. A split pot comes up on 0.72% of boards, so the wins and the equity differ by half of that. KQs ranks number 16 of 169 starting hands, and JTs ranks number 45, by equity against a random hand. **Boards behind the percentages: 27,396,864 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KQs | 17,254,000 | 197,000 | 9,946,000 | | JTs | 9,946,000 | 197,000 | 17,254,000 | 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 JTs 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 | 1.728 | 1.588 | 2.755 | 0.579 | | JTs | 0.579 | 2.755 | 1.588 | 1.728 | 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 Break the boards down by their first three cards and KQs is strongest on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) (69.32%) and weakest on monotone flops (60.33%). KQs stays ahead on all five textures. **KQs against JTs by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | KQs wins | Ties | JTs wins | KQs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.138 | 61.736 | 0.254 | 38.010 | 61.863 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.771 | 68.866 | 0.901 | 30.233 | 69.317 | | Two-tone | 46.727 | 62.509 | 0.370 | 37.121 | 62.694 | | Monotone | 5.273 | 58.593 | 3.475 | 37.932 | 60.331 | | Paired | 17.091 | 64.621 | 1.363 | 34.016 | 65.303 | Rainbow flops have three suits, two-tone flops repeat one suit, monotone flops are all one suit, and paired flops repeat a rank. ## Compared with a random hand How much does the opponent matter? Compared with its random-hand 63.40%, KQs changes by -0.06 points, and JTs, from 57.53%, by -20.87. **KQs and JTs 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 | 63.338 | 63.400 | -0.062 | 0.99902 | | KQs, rainbow, ten or higher | 61.863 | 63.400 | -1.537 | 0.97576 | | KQs, rainbow, nine or lower | 69.317 | 63.400 | +5.917 | 1.09333 | | KQs, two-tone | 62.694 | 63.400 | -0.706 | 0.98886 | | KQs, monotone | 60.331 | 63.400 | -3.069 | 0.95159 | | KQs, paired | 65.303 | 63.400 | +1.903 | 1.03002 | | JTs, all flops | 36.662 | 57.528 | -20.866 | 0.63729 | | JTs, rainbow, ten or higher | 38.137 | 57.528 | -19.391 | 0.66293 | | JTs, rainbow, nine or lower | 30.683 | 57.528 | -26.845 | 0.53336 | | JTs, two-tone | 37.306 | 57.528 | -20.222 | 0.64848 | | JTs, monotone | 39.669 | 57.528 | -17.859 | 0.68956 | | JTs, paired | 34.697 | 57.528 | -22.831 | 0.60313 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Suit overlap shows up in the numbers. With a suit in common KQs has 65.75% equity, and with none in common it has 62.53%. KQs does better with a shared suit, by 3.22 points. **KQs against JTs by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | KQs wins | Ties | JTs wins | KQs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 4 | 25.00 | 65.349 | 0.805 | 33.846 | 65.751 | | No shared suit | 12 | 75.00 | 62.188 | 0.689 | 37.123 | 62.533 | ## How often this matchup comes up Exactly 16 specific deals fit this matchup in one seat order, which is 0.0010% of 1,624,350; both orders together give 32, or 0.0020%. ## A worked example Say each player puts $100 in before the flop, making a $200 pot. On average KQs takes back $126.68 of it, which is $26.68 more than it put in, and JTs takes back $73.32, $26.68 less than it put in. In 1,000 deals of exactly this matchup, expect about 630 won outright by KQs, about 363 won outright by JTs and about 7 split. ## The same matchup from the other side The reversed view, JTs against KQs, shows 36.66% for JTs and 63.34% for KQs. It is the same count, so it redirects here. ## Keep exploring Open the calculator with KsQs against JhTh 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 JhTh in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=KsQs&p2=JhTh) - [KQs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/kqs.md) - [JTs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/jts.md) - [KQs vs A2s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqs-vs-a2s.md) - [KQs vs QTo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqs-vs-qto.md) - [66 vs JTs](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/66-vs-jts.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed All 1,712,304 five-card boards are dealt for every suit pattern among the 16 specific deals of KQs against JTs, and both hands are scored on each. That is a full count, so the percentages are exact. Ties are half a win each, and each board appears once per flop it contains. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [KQs vs A2s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqs-vs-a2s.md) - [KQs vs QTo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqs-vs-qto.md) - [66 vs JTs: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/66-vs-jts.md)