--- title: "KQs vs K9o: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqs-vs-k9o.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqs-vs-k9o" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "KQs is a big favorite over K9o before the flop: 74.81% to 25.19% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqs-vs-q9s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqs-vs-jts.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/66-vs-k9o.md"] --- # KQs vs K9o: preflop equity KQs is a big favorite over K9o before the flop: 74.81% to 25.19% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. If KQs and K9o get all the chips in before the flop, KQs owns 74.81% of the pot in the long run and K9o owns 25.19%. ## KQs against K9o: the numbers **Exact preflop results for KQs against K9o, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KQs | 72.096 | 5.432 | 22.472 | 74.812 | | K9o | 22.472 | 5.432 | 72.096 | 25.188 | KQs and K9o are a suited hand and an offsuit hand, in that order. Sharing a rank is the signature of a dominated hand, since the weaker hand is usually out-kicked when the shared rank shows up. That is a clear edge, 74.81% to 25.19%, but K9o still wins often enough that one hand proves nothing. Ties are part of the picture: 5.43% of boards end in a split pot, and each side counts that as half a win. KQs ranks number 16 of 169 starting hands, and K9o ranks number 40, by equity against a random hand. **Boards behind the percentages: 61,642,944 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KQs | 44,442,000 | 3,348,000 | 13,852,000 | | K9o | 13,852,000 | 3,348,000 | 44,442,000 | 36 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 K9o 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 | 2.970 | 1.387 | 4.450 | 0.337 | | K9o | 0.337 | 4.450 | 1.387 | 2.970 | 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 Across the five flop textures KQs' equity moves by 16.60 points, from 62.69% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) to 79.29% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better. KQs stays ahead on all five textures, but the swing between them is large, so how the flop looks matters a great deal. **KQs against K9o by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | KQs wins | Ties | K9o wins | KQs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.905 | 77.431 | 3.715 | 18.854 | 79.289 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.042 | 61.246 | 2.877 | 35.877 | 62.685 | | Two-tone | 46.527 | 73.863 | 3.361 | 22.776 | 75.544 | | Monotone | 5.192 | 65.175 | 4.641 | 30.184 | 67.495 | | Paired | 17.334 | 66.478 | 14.633 | 18.889 | 73.794 | 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 How much does the opponent matter? Compared with its random-hand 63.40%, KQs changes by +11.41 points, and K9o, from 57.81%, by -32.62. **KQs and K9o 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 | 74.812 | 63.400 | +11.412 | 1.18000 | | KQs, rainbow, ten or higher | 79.289 | 63.400 | +15.889 | 1.25062 | | KQs, rainbow, nine or lower | 62.685 | 63.400 | -0.715 | 0.98872 | | KQs, two-tone | 75.544 | 63.400 | +12.144 | 1.19155 | | KQs, monotone | 67.495 | 63.400 | +4.095 | 1.06459 | | KQs, paired | 73.794 | 63.400 | +10.394 | 1.16394 | | K9o, all flops | 25.188 | 57.812 | -32.624 | 0.43569 | | K9o, rainbow, ten or higher | 20.711 | 57.812 | -37.101 | 0.35825 | | K9o, rainbow, nine or lower | 37.315 | 57.812 | -20.497 | 0.64545 | | K9o, two-tone | 24.456 | 57.812 | -33.356 | 0.42303 | | K9o, monotone | 32.505 | 57.812 | -25.307 | 0.56225 | | K9o, paired | 26.206 | 57.812 | -31.606 | 0.45330 | ## Does a shared suit matter? When the hands share a suit, KQs holds 74.58%; when they do not, it holds 74.93%. KQs does better with no shared suit, by 0.35 points. **KQs against K9o by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | KQs wins | Ties | K9o wins | KQs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 12 | 33.33 | 71.825 | 5.513 | 22.662 | 74.582 | | No shared suit | 24 | 66.67 | 72.232 | 5.391 | 22.377 | 74.928 | ## How often this matchup comes up You will meet this exact matchup 0.0044% of the time in a random heads-up deal: 72 of 1,624,350, counting either seat order. ## A worked example Put $100 each into a $200 pot and deal every board once: KQs averages $149.62 back, ahead of its $100 by $49.62, while K9o averages $50.38, short of its $100 by $49.62. Out of 1,000 deals you should see around 721 outright wins for KQs, 225 for K9o, and 54 split pots. ## The same matchup from the other side One page covers both views. From K9o's side the equity is 25.19%, and from KQs' side it is 74.81%. ## Keep exploring KsQs against Kh9d 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 Kh9d in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=KsQs&p2=Kh9d) - [KQs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/kqs.md) - [K9o combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/k9o.md) - [KQs vs Q9s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqs-vs-q9s.md) - [KQs vs JTs](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqs-vs-jts.md) - [66 vs K9o](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/66-vs-k9o.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed Each figure is a complete count over boards. Take the 36 specific deals, group them by suit pattern, deal all 1,712,304 boards against each, and compare the two seven-card hands. Equity counts a tie as half a win; the flop rows use every one of a board's ten flops. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [KQs vs Q9s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqs-vs-q9s.md) - [KQs vs JTs: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqs-vs-jts.md) - [66 vs K9o: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/66-vs-k9o.md)