--- title: "KTo vs 65s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kto-vs-65s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kto-vs-65s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "Who is ahead, KTo or 65s? KTo leads 59.67% to 40.33% before the flop, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kto-vs-54s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kto-vs-64s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qts-vs-65s.md"] --- # KTo vs 65s: preflop equity Who is ahead, KTo or 65s? KTo leads 59.67% to 40.33% before the flop, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. The exact count puts KTo at 59.67% and 65s at 40.33% when the two hands see all five board cards. ## KTo against 65s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for KTo against 65s, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KTo | 59.335 | 0.669 | 39.996 | 59.670 | | 65s | 39.996 | 0.669 | 59.335 | 40.330 | We compare an offsuit hand with a suited hand. With no overlap in ranks, every card that pairs one hand is a card that does not pair the other. KTo is ahead, but 65s is far from dead: it takes 400 of every 1,000 deals outright. Ties are 0.67% of the outcomes here; each tied board gives both hands half the pot. In the ranking of all 169 starting hands, KTo is number 33 and 65s is number 128. **Boards behind the percentages: 82,190,592 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KTo | 48,768,000 | 550,000 | 32,873,000 | | 65s | 32,873,000 | 550,000 | 48,768,000 | 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 65s 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 | 1.480 | 1.685 | 2.500 | 0.676 | | 65s | 0.676 | 2.500 | 1.685 | 1.480 | 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 KTo prefers rainbow flops topped by a ten or better, where it holds 68.29%, and likes low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) least, where it holds 31.91%. On low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) the numbers flip and 65s is the one ahead. **KTo against 65s by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | KTo wins | Ties | 65s wins | KTo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 24.717 | 68.133 | 0.321 | 31.546 | 68.294 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 6.313 | 31.569 | 0.677 | 67.754 | 31.907 | | Two-tone | 46.667 | 57.941 | 0.372 | 41.687 | 58.127 | | Monotone | 5.212 | 56.860 | 2.486 | 40.654 | 58.103 | | Paired | 17.091 | 61.432 | 1.424 | 37.144 | 62.144 | 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, KTo changes by -0.07 points (baseline 59.74%) and 65s by -2.80 points (baseline 43.13%). **KTo and 65s 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 | 59.670 | 59.739 | -0.069 | 0.99884 | | KTo, rainbow, ten or higher | 68.294 | 59.739 | +8.555 | 1.14321 | | KTo, rainbow, nine or lower | 31.907 | 59.739 | -27.832 | 0.53411 | | KTo, two-tone | 58.127 | 59.739 | -1.612 | 0.97302 | | KTo, monotone | 58.103 | 59.739 | -1.636 | 0.97261 | | KTo, paired | 62.144 | 59.739 | +2.405 | 1.04026 | | 65s, all flops | 40.330 | 43.133 | -2.803 | 0.93501 | | 65s, rainbow, ten or higher | 31.706 | 43.133 | -11.427 | 0.73508 | | 65s, rainbow, nine or lower | 68.093 | 43.133 | +24.960 | 1.57868 | | 65s, two-tone | 41.873 | 43.133 | -1.260 | 0.97079 | | 65s, monotone | 41.897 | 43.133 | -1.236 | 0.97134 | | 65s, paired | 37.856 | 43.133 | -5.277 | 0.87766 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Looking only at deals where the hands share a suit, KTo has 60.37%; looking only at deals where they do not, 58.97%. KTo does better with a shared suit, by 1.40 points. **KTo against 65s by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | KTo wins | Ties | 65s wins | KTo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 24 | 50.00 | 60.011 | 0.710 | 39.279 | 60.366 | | No shared suit | 24 | 50.00 | 58.660 | 0.627 | 40.713 | 58.973 | ## How often this matchup comes up Exactly 48 specific deals fit this matchup in one seat order, which is 0.0030% of 1,624,350; both orders together give 96, or 0.0059%. ## A worked example With $100 from each side, the $200 pot is split on average as $119.34 for KTo and $80.66 for 65s; the first side gains $19.34 per all-in and the second gives up $19.34. Per 1,000 deals: KTo wins about 593, 65s wins about 400, and about 7 end in a split pot. ## The same matchup from the other side 65s against KTo adds nothing new: it is 40.33% for 65s and 59.67% for KTo, the same figures reversed. ## Keep exploring Open the calculator with KsTh against 6d5d already entered, a deal with no shared suit, and change any card to try your own hand. The matchups after it each swap one hand for a nearby one in the ranking. - [Open KsTh against 6d5d in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=KsTh&p2=6d5d) - [KTo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/kto.md) - [65s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/65s.md) - [KTo vs 54s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kto-vs-54s.md) - [KTo vs 64s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kto-vs-64s.md) - [QTs vs 65s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qts-vs-65s.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed This is an exact count with no sampling. For the 48 ways to deal one KTo and one 65s without reusing a card, grouped by suit pattern, every one of the 1,712,304 possible boards is dealt and both seven-card hands are compared. A tie counts as half a win in the equity column, and each board is counted once under each of its ten three-card flops. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [KTo vs 54s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kto-vs-54s.md) - [KTo vs 64s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kto-vs-64s.md) - [QTs vs 65s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qts-vs-65s.md)