--- title: "KQs vs T9o: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqs-vs-t9o.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqs-vs-t9o" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "KQs is a big favorite over T9o before the flop: 65.96% to 34.04% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqs-vs-98s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqs-vs-22.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/66-vs-t9o.md"] --- # KQs vs T9o: preflop equity KQs is a big favorite over T9o before the flop: 65.96% to 34.04% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Averaged over every possible board, KQs is ahead of T9o by 31.92 points of equity, 65.96% to 34.04%. ## KQs against T9o: the numbers **Exact preflop results for KQs against T9o, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KQs | 65.623 | 0.671 | 33.706 | 65.959 | | T9o | 33.706 | 0.671 | 65.623 | 34.041 | KQs, a suited hand, plays T9o, an offsuit hand. With no overlap in ranks, every card that pairs one hand is a card that does not pair the other. That is a clear edge, 65.96% to 34.04%, but T9o still wins often enough that one hand proves nothing. A split pot comes up on 0.67% of boards, so the wins and the equity differ by half of that. In the ranking of all 169 starting hands, KQs is number 16 and T9o is number 78. **Boards behind the percentages: 82,190,592 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KQs | 53,936,000 | 551,000 | 27,703,000 | | T9o | 27,703,000 | 551,000 | 53,936,000 | 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 T9o 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 | 1.938 | 1.524 | 2.967 | 0.516 | | T9o | 0.516 | 2.967 | 1.524 | 1.938 | 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 By flop texture, KQs' equity runs from 55.37% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) up to 68.02% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better. KQs stays ahead on all five textures. **KQs against T9o by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | KQs wins | Ties | T9o wins | KQs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.988 | 67.874 | 0.294 | 31.832 | 68.021 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.042 | 54.967 | 0.797 | 44.236 | 55.365 | | Two-tone | 46.667 | 66.038 | 0.377 | 33.585 | 66.227 | | Monotone | 5.212 | 60.516 | 2.451 | 37.033 | 61.741 | | Paired | 17.091 | 67.281 | 1.410 | 31.309 | 67.986 | 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 Relative to a random opponent, KQs changes by +2.56 points (baseline 63.40%) and T9o by -17.49 points (baseline 51.53%). **KQs and T9o 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 | 65.959 | 63.400 | +2.559 | 1.04036 | | KQs, rainbow, ten or higher | 68.021 | 63.400 | +4.621 | 1.07289 | | KQs, rainbow, nine or lower | 55.365 | 63.400 | -8.035 | 0.87326 | | KQs, two-tone | 66.227 | 63.400 | +2.827 | 1.04459 | | KQs, monotone | 61.741 | 63.400 | -1.659 | 0.97383 | | KQs, paired | 67.986 | 63.400 | +4.586 | 1.07233 | | T9o, all flops | 34.041 | 51.532 | -17.491 | 0.66058 | | T9o, rainbow, ten or higher | 31.979 | 51.532 | -19.553 | 0.62057 | | T9o, rainbow, nine or lower | 44.635 | 51.532 | -6.897 | 0.86616 | | T9o, two-tone | 33.773 | 51.532 | -17.759 | 0.65538 | | T9o, monotone | 38.259 | 51.532 | -13.273 | 0.74243 | | T9o, paired | 32.014 | 51.532 | -19.518 | 0.62125 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Two kinds of deal exist here. In 24 of them the hands share a suit and KQs holds 65.78%. In 24 they do not, and it holds 66.14%. KQs does better with no shared suit, by 0.36 points. **KQs against T9o by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | KQs wins | Ties | T9o wins | KQs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 24 | 50.00 | 65.423 | 0.712 | 33.865 | 65.779 | | No shared suit | 24 | 50.00 | 65.823 | 0.631 | 33.546 | 66.139 | ## How often this matchup comes up Counting specific cards, KQs against T9o appears in 48 of the 1,624,350 ordered heads-up deals (0.0030%), and in 96 when the seats are swapped too (0.0059%). ## A worked example Put $100 each into a $200 pot and deal every board once: KQs averages $131.92 back, ahead of its $100 by $31.92, while T9o averages $68.08, short of its $100 by $31.92. Out of 1,000 deals you should see around 656 outright wins for KQs, 337 for T9o, and 7 split pots. ## The same matchup from the other side The mirror image, T9o against KQs, is 34.04% to 65.96%, and its address redirects to this page. ## Keep exploring KsQs against Th9d 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 Th9d in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=KsQs&p2=Th9d) - [KQs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/kqs.md) - [T9o combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/t9o.md) - [KQs vs 98s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqs-vs-98s.md) - [KQs vs 22](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqs-vs-22.md) - [66 vs T9o](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/66-vs-t9o.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed Each figure is a complete count over boards. Take the 48 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 98s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqs-vs-98s.md) - [KQs vs 22: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqs-vs-22.md) - [66 vs T9o: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/66-vs-t9o.md)