KQs vs QJo: preflop equity

KQs against QJo: the numbers

KQs and QJo are a suited hand and an offsuit hand, in that order. Because the hands share one rank, the one with the higher kicker is ahead when that rank pairs and the other hand is mostly drawing.

KQs is well ahead, and QJo needs a specific kind of board to catch up. 2.45% of boards are ties, so the equity of each hand is its win rate plus half of that.

For context, KQs sits at number 16 of 169 starting hands and QJo at number 39 when each is run against a random hand.

The board total is exact, 36 deals at 1,712,304 boards each. Won, tied and lost counts are rounded to the nearest thousand from the five-decimal percentages.

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

Split by what the flop looks like, KQs peaks at 85.37% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) and bottoms out at 67.01% on monotone flops. KQs stays ahead on all five textures, but the swing between them is large, so how the flop looks matters a great deal.

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 +11.52 points for KQs, from 63.40%, and -33.06 for QJo, from 58.14%.

Does a shared suit matter?

Of the deals of this matchup, 12 share a suit (KQs at 74.73%) and 24 do not (75.02%). KQs does better with no shared suit, by 0.29 points.

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

Worked example: both players commit $100, so $200 sits in the middle. Over every board, KQs' average share is $149.84 (a gain of $49.84) and QJo's is $50.16 (a loss of $49.84).

Out of 1,000 deals you should see around 737 outright wins for KQs, 239 for QJo, and 24 split pots.

The same matchup from the other side

Swap the hands and you get QJo with 25.08% against KQs with 74.92%. We keep one page per matchup, with the better-ranked hand first.

Keep exploring

Try KsQs against QhJd 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 QhJd in the equity calculator
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