--- title: "KQs vs T9s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqs-vs-t9s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqs-vs-t9s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "KQs is a big favorite over T9s before the flop: 63.11% to 36.89% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqs-vs-33.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqs-vs-t8s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/66-vs-t9s.md"] --- # KQs vs T9s: preflop equity KQs is a big favorite over T9s before the flop: 63.11% to 36.89% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Averaged over every possible board, KQs is ahead of T9s by 26.22 points of equity, 63.11% to 36.89%. ## KQs against T9s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for KQs against T9s, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KQs | 62.754 | 0.705 | 36.541 | 63.106 | | T9s | 36.541 | 0.705 | 62.754 | 36.894 | KQs meets T9s, and both are suited hands. With no overlap in ranks, every card that pairs one hand is a card that does not pair the other. A 26.22 point lead is real, and T9s still takes about 365 of every 1,000 deals outright. A split pot comes up on 0.71% of boards, so the wins and the equity differ by half of that. By strength against a random hand, KQs holds place 16 of 169 and T9s holds place 64. **Boards behind the percentages: 27,396,864 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KQs | 17,193,000 | 193,000 | 10,011,000 | | T9s | 10,011,000 | 193,000 | 17,193,000 | 16 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 T9s 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 | 1.710 | 1.594 | 2.737 | 0.585 | | T9s | 0.585 | 2.737 | 1.594 | 1.710 | 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 rainbow flops topped by a ten or better, at 66.36%, and worst on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower), at 53.62%. KQs stays ahead on all five textures. **KQs against T9s by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | KQs wins | Ties | T9s wins | KQs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.867 | 66.220 | 0.285 | 33.495 | 66.363 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.042 | 53.234 | 0.770 | 45.996 | 53.619 | | Two-tone | 46.727 | 62.295 | 0.354 | 37.351 | 62.472 | | Monotone | 5.273 | 58.480 | 3.469 | 38.051 | 60.215 | | Paired | 17.091 | 64.408 | 1.372 | 34.220 | 65.094 | 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 Start from the random-hand figures, 63.40% for KQs and 54.03% for T9s. This opponent changes them by -0.29 and -17.14 points. **KQs and T9s 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 | 63.106 | 63.400 | -0.294 | 0.99536 | | KQs, rainbow, ten or higher | 66.363 | 63.400 | +2.963 | 1.04674 | | KQs, rainbow, nine or lower | 53.619 | 63.400 | -9.781 | 0.84573 | | KQs, two-tone | 62.472 | 63.400 | -0.928 | 0.98536 | | KQs, monotone | 60.215 | 63.400 | -3.185 | 0.94976 | | KQs, paired | 65.094 | 63.400 | +1.694 | 1.02672 | | T9s, all flops | 36.894 | 54.028 | -17.134 | 0.68287 | | T9s, rainbow, ten or higher | 33.637 | 54.028 | -20.391 | 0.62258 | | T9s, rainbow, nine or lower | 46.381 | 54.028 | -7.647 | 0.85846 | | T9s, two-tone | 37.528 | 54.028 | -16.500 | 0.69460 | | T9s, monotone | 39.785 | 54.028 | -14.243 | 0.73638 | | T9s, paired | 34.906 | 54.028 | -19.122 | 0.64607 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Suit overlap shows up in the numbers. With a suit in common KQs has 65.47% equity, and with none in common it has 62.32%. KQs does better with a shared suit, by 3.15 points. **KQs against T9s by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | KQs wins | Ties | T9s wins | KQs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 4 | 25.00 | 65.070 | 0.792 | 34.138 | 65.466 | | No shared suit | 12 | 75.00 | 61.982 | 0.676 | 37.342 | 62.320 | ## How often this matchup comes up Out of 1,624,350 ways to deal two seats two cards each, 16 are KQs in one seat and T9s in the other (0.0010%); with the seats swapped too, 32 (0.0020%). ## A worked example A $100 all-in from each player makes a $200 pot, and the exact equity says KQs gets $126.22 of it on average and T9s gets $73.78. Scaled to 1,000 deals, that is roughly 628 wins for KQs, 365 for T9s and 7 chopped pots. ## The same matchup from the other side The reversed view, T9s against KQs, shows 36.89% for T9s and 63.11% for KQs. It is the same count, so it redirects here. ## Keep exploring Try KsQs against Th9h 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 Th9h in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=KsQs&p2=Th9h) - [KQs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/kqs.md) - [T9s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/t9s.md) - [KQs vs 33](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqs-vs-33.md) - [KQs vs T8s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqs-vs-t8s.md) - [66 vs T9s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/66-vs-t9s.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed We counted every case. Each suit pattern of the 16 specific KQs against T9s 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 33: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqs-vs-33.md) - [KQs vs T8s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqs-vs-t8s.md) - [66 vs T9s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/66-vs-t9s.md)