--- title: "KTo vs 64s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kto-vs-64s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kto-vs-64s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "KTo is a big favorite over 64s before the flop: 60.63% to 39.37% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kto-vs-53s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kto-vs-43s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qts-vs-64s.md"] --- # KTo vs 64s: preflop equity KTo is a big favorite over 64s before the flop: 60.63% to 39.37% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Counting every board, the equity split is 60.63% for KTo and 39.37% for 64s, so KTo leads by 21.26 points. ## KTo against 64s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for KTo against 64s, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KTo | 60.294 | 0.670 | 39.036 | 60.629 | | 64s | 39.036 | 0.670 | 60.294 | 39.371 | KTo, an offsuit hand, plays 64s, a suited hand. The two hands share no rank, which makes this a pure matchup of card strength, straight chances and flush chances. KTo is ahead, but 64s is far from dead: it takes 390 of every 1,000 deals outright. 0.67% of boards are ties, so the equity of each hand is its win rate plus half of that. Among the 169 starting hands, KTo is number 33 and 64s is number 138 by strength against a random hand. **Boards behind the percentages: 82,190,592 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KTo | 49,556,000 | 551,000 | 32,084,000 | | 64s | 32,084,000 | 551,000 | 49,556,000 | The total is exact: 48 specific deals times 1,712,304 boards. The three counts are approximate, worked out from the percentages to five decimals and rounded to the nearest thousand. **KTo against 64s read as odds** | Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KTo | 1.540 | 1.659 | 2.562 | 0.649 | | 64s | 0.649 | 2.562 | 1.659 | 1.540 | In the last column, a pot-to-call ratio at or above the figure makes a call break even or better at this equity. ## Who is ahead on which flops Rainbow flops topped by a ten or better are the best for KTo (69.00%); low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) are the worst (34.24%). The lead reverses on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower): there 64s is the favorite even though KTo is ahead overall. **KTo against 64s by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | KTo wins | Ties | 64s wins | KTo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 24.717 | 68.839 | 0.321 | 30.840 | 69.000 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 6.313 | 33.901 | 0.677 | 65.422 | 34.239 | | Two-tone | 46.667 | 58.887 | 0.372 | 40.741 | 59.073 | | Monotone | 5.212 | 57.566 | 2.489 | 39.945 | 58.811 | | Paired | 17.091 | 62.361 | 1.428 | 36.211 | 63.075 | 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 Relative to a random opponent, KTo changes by +0.89 points (baseline 59.74%) and 64s by -1.96 points (baseline 41.33%). **KTo and 64s 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KTo, all flops | 60.629 | 59.739 | +0.890 | 1.01490 | | KTo, rainbow, ten or higher | 69.000 | 59.739 | +9.261 | 1.15502 | | KTo, rainbow, nine or lower | 34.239 | 59.739 | -25.500 | 0.57314 | | KTo, two-tone | 59.073 | 59.739 | -0.666 | 0.98885 | | KTo, monotone | 58.811 | 59.739 | -0.928 | 0.98447 | | KTo, paired | 63.075 | 59.739 | +3.336 | 1.05584 | | 64s, all flops | 39.371 | 41.333 | -1.962 | 0.95253 | | 64s, rainbow, ten or higher | 31.000 | 41.333 | -10.333 | 0.75001 | | 64s, rainbow, nine or lower | 65.761 | 41.333 | +24.428 | 1.59100 | | 64s, two-tone | 40.927 | 41.333 | -0.406 | 0.99018 | | 64s, monotone | 41.189 | 41.333 | -0.144 | 0.99652 | | 64s, paired | 36.925 | 41.333 | -4.408 | 0.89335 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Does suit overlap move the numbers? KTo has 61.34% when the hands share a suit and 59.92% when they do not. KTo does better with a shared suit, by 1.42 points. **KTo against 64s by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | KTo wins | Ties | 64s wins | KTo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 24 | 50.00 | 60.985 | 0.711 | 38.304 | 61.341 | | No shared suit | 24 | 50.00 | 59.603 | 0.628 | 39.769 | 59.917 | ## How often this matchup comes up KTo against 64s is made up of 48 specific-card matchups in one seat order, 0.0030% of the 1,624,350 ordered deals, and 96 counting both seat orders, 0.0059%. ## A worked example Put $100 each into a $200 pot and deal every board once: KTo averages $121.26 back, ahead of its $100 by $21.26, while 64s averages $78.74, short of its $100 by $21.26. Over a long run, 1,000 deals split into about 603 for KTo, 390 for 64s and 7 tied. ## The same matchup from the other side If you came looking for 64s against KTo, the numbers are the same with the hands swapped: 39.37% and 60.63%. ## Keep exploring KsTh against 6d4d 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 KsTh against 6d4d in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=KsTh&p2=6d4d) - [KTo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/kto.md) - [64s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/64s.md) - [KTo vs 53s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kto-vs-53s.md) - [KTo vs 43s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kto-vs-43s.md) - [QTs vs 64s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qts-vs-64s.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed We counted every case. Each suit pattern of the 48 specific KTo against 64s 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 - [KTo vs 53s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kto-vs-53s.md) - [KTo vs 43s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kto-vs-43s.md) - [QTs vs 64s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qts-vs-64s.md)