--- title: "KQs vs KJs: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqs-vs-kjs.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqs-vs-kjs" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "KQs is a big favorite over KJs before the flop: 70.85% to 29.15% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqs-vs-a8s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqs-vs-kts.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/66-vs-kjs.md"] --- # KQs vs KJs: preflop equity KQs is a big favorite over KJs before the flop: 70.85% to 29.15% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Over all 1,712,304 boards that can follow this deal, KQs finishes with 70.85% of the pot and KJs with 29.15%. ## KQs against KJs: the numbers **Exact preflop results for KQs against KJs, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KQs | 68.276 | 5.152 | 26.572 | 70.852 | | KJs | 26.572 | 5.152 | 68.276 | 29.148 | Each side holds one of the suited hands: KQs and KJs. Sharing a rank is the signature of a dominated hand, since the weaker hand is usually out-kicked when the shared rank shows up. A lead of 41.70 points is large but not decisive: KJs still takes about 266 of every 1,000 deals. The tie share is 5.15%: on those boards the pot is chopped and neither hand wins outright. Place 16 of 169 belongs to KQs and place 20 belongs to KJs in the ranking against a random hand. **Boards behind the percentages: 20,547,648 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KQs | 14,029,000 | 1,059,000 | 5,460,000 | | KJs | 5,460,000 | 1,059,000 | 14,029,000 | Exact total: 12 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. **KQs against KJs 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 | 2.431 | 1.465 | 3.763 | 0.411 | | KJs | 0.411 | 3.763 | 1.465 | 2.431 | 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 The flop changes the picture. KQs does best on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower), at 82.65%, and worst on monotone flops, at 64.35%. 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 KJs by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | KQs wins | Ties | KJs wins | KQs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.138 | 68.652 | 3.243 | 28.105 | 70.273 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.771 | 80.791 | 3.727 | 15.482 | 82.654 | | Two-tone | 46.543 | 68.776 | 3.082 | 28.142 | 70.317 | | Monotone | 5.215 | 61.789 | 5.124 | 33.087 | 64.351 | | Paired | 17.333 | 62.777 | 13.906 | 23.317 | 69.730 | 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 Each hand has a baseline against a random hand: 63.40% for KQs, 62.57% for KJs. Here the change is +7.45 and -33.42 points. **KQs and KJs 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 | 70.852 | 63.400 | +7.452 | 1.11754 | | KQs, rainbow, ten or higher | 70.273 | 63.400 | +6.873 | 1.10841 | | KQs, rainbow, nine or lower | 82.654 | 63.400 | +19.254 | 1.30369 | | KQs, two-tone | 70.317 | 63.400 | +6.917 | 1.10910 | | KQs, monotone | 64.351 | 63.400 | +0.951 | 1.01500 | | KQs, paired | 69.730 | 63.400 | +6.330 | 1.09984 | | KJs, all flops | 29.148 | 62.567 | -33.419 | 0.46587 | | KJs, rainbow, ten or higher | 29.727 | 62.567 | -32.840 | 0.47512 | | KJs, rainbow, nine or lower | 17.346 | 62.567 | -45.221 | 0.27724 | | KJs, two-tone | 29.683 | 62.567 | -32.884 | 0.47442 | | KJs, monotone | 35.649 | 62.567 | -26.918 | 0.56977 | | KJs, paired | 30.270 | 62.567 | -32.297 | 0.48380 | ## Does a shared suit matter? A shared suit is impossible for this matchup, so KQs' 70.85% is the answer for every suit pattern. **KQs against KJs by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | KQs wins | Ties | KJs wins | KQs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 0 | 0.00 | not possible | not possible | not possible | not possible | | No shared suit | 12 | 100.00 | 68.276 | 5.152 | 26.572 | 70.852 | ## How often this matchup comes up Out of 1,624,350 ways to deal two seats two cards each, 12 are KQs in one seat and KJs in the other (0.0007%); with the seats swapped too, 24 (0.0015%). ## A worked example Try it with money: two players each put in $100 and the whole board runs out every possible way. KQs averages $141.70 from the $200, up $41.70; KJs averages $58.30, down $41.70. Scaled to 1,000 deals, that is roughly 683 wins for KQs, 266 for KJs and 51 chopped pots. ## The same matchup from the other side The reversed view, KJs against KQs, shows 29.15% for KJs and 70.85% for KQs. It is the same count, so it redirects here. ## Keep exploring KsQs against KhJh 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 KhJh in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=KsQs&p2=KhJh) - [KQs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/kqs.md) - [KJs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/kjs.md) - [KQs vs A8s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqs-vs-a8s.md) - [KQs vs KTs](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqs-vs-kts.md) - [66 vs KJs](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/66-vs-kjs.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed We counted every case. Each suit pattern of the 12 specific KQs against KJs 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. ## Related - [KQs vs A8s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqs-vs-a8s.md) - [KQs vs KTs: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqs-vs-kts.md) - [66 vs KJs: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/66-vs-kjs.md)