--- title: "KTo vs 87s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kto-vs-87s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kto-vs-87s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "Who is ahead, KTo or 87s? KTo leads 59.62% to 40.38% before the flop, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kto-vs-86s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kto-vs-76s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qts-vs-87s.md"] --- # KTo vs 87s: preflop equity Who is ahead, KTo or 87s? KTo leads 59.62% to 40.38% before the flop, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Counting every board, the equity split is 59.62% for KTo and 40.38% for 87s, so KTo leads by 19.24 points. ## KTo against 87s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for KTo against 87s, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KTo | 59.301 | 0.631 | 40.068 | 59.616 | | 87s | 40.068 | 0.631 | 59.301 | 40.384 | The matchup pits an offsuit hand against 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 87s is far from dead: it takes 401 of every 1,000 deals outright. Split pots make up 0.63% of the boards, and both equity figures count them as half a win each. In the ranking of all 169 starting hands, KTo is number 33 and 87s is number 100. **Boards behind the percentages: 82,190,592 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KTo | 48,740,000 | 519,000 | 32,932,000 | | 87s | 32,932,000 | 519,000 | 48,740,000 | Exact total: 48 deals times 1,712,304 boards. The other three counts come from the five-decimal percentages and are rounded to the nearest thousand, so read them as approximate. **KTo against 87s 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 | 1.476 | 1.686 | 2.496 | 0.677 | | 87s | 0.677 | 2.496 | 1.686 | 1.476 | 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 Break the boards down by their first three cards and KTo is strongest on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better (67.23%) and weakest on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) (35.67%). The lead reverses on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower): there 87s is the favorite even though KTo is ahead overall. **KTo against 87s by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | KTo wins | Ties | 87s wins | KTo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 24.717 | 67.057 | 0.340 | 32.603 | 67.227 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 6.313 | 35.472 | 0.396 | 64.132 | 35.670 | | Two-tone | 46.667 | 57.889 | 0.331 | 41.780 | 58.055 | | Monotone | 5.212 | 56.788 | 2.430 | 40.782 | 58.003 | | Paired | 17.091 | 61.510 | 1.407 | 37.083 | 62.214 | 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 A random hand would give KTo 59.74% and 87s 47.94%. Against each other the change is -0.12 points for KTo and -7.56 for 87s. **KTo and 87s 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 | 59.616 | 59.739 | -0.123 | 0.99794 | | KTo, rainbow, ten or higher | 67.227 | 59.739 | +7.488 | 1.12535 | | KTo, rainbow, nine or lower | 35.670 | 59.739 | -24.069 | 0.59710 | | KTo, two-tone | 58.055 | 59.739 | -1.684 | 0.97181 | | KTo, monotone | 58.003 | 59.739 | -1.736 | 0.97094 | | KTo, paired | 62.214 | 59.739 | +2.475 | 1.04143 | | 87s, all flops | 40.384 | 47.936 | -7.552 | 0.84246 | | 87s, rainbow, ten or higher | 32.773 | 47.936 | -15.163 | 0.68368 | | 87s, rainbow, nine or lower | 64.330 | 47.936 | +16.394 | 1.34200 | | 87s, two-tone | 41.945 | 47.936 | -5.991 | 0.87502 | | 87s, monotone | 41.997 | 47.936 | -5.939 | 0.87611 | | 87s, paired | 37.786 | 47.936 | -10.150 | 0.78826 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Does suit overlap move the numbers? KTo has 60.29% when the hands share a suit and 58.94% when they do not. KTo does better with a shared suit, by 1.35 points. **KTo against 87s by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | KTo wins | Ties | 87s wins | KTo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 24 | 50.00 | 59.953 | 0.672 | 39.375 | 60.289 | | No shared suit | 24 | 50.00 | 58.650 | 0.589 | 40.761 | 58.944 | ## How often this matchup comes up This page stands for 48 specific-card matchups (0.0030% of 1,624,350 ordered deals), or 96 once you count the seats both ways (0.0059%). ## A worked example Put $100 each into a $200 pot and deal every board once: KTo averages $119.24 back, ahead of its $100 by $19.24, while 87s averages $80.76, short of its $100 by $19.24. In 1,000 deals of exactly this matchup, expect about 593 won outright by KTo, about 401 won outright by 87s and about 6 split. ## The same matchup from the other side 87s against KTo adds nothing new: it is 40.38% for 87s and 59.62% for KTo, the same figures reversed. ## Keep exploring Open the calculator with KsTh against 8d7d 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 8d7d in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=KsTh&p2=8d7d) - [KTo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/kto.md) - [87s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/87s.md) - [KTo vs 86s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kto-vs-86s.md) - [KTo vs 76s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kto-vs-76s.md) - [QTs vs 87s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qts-vs-87s.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed Method: exact enumeration. The 48 specific deals are grouped by suit pattern, each is run against all 1,712,304 boards, and both seven-card hands are scored. Equity adds half of every tie, and flop textures are tallied over the ten flops inside each board. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [KTo vs 86s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kto-vs-86s.md) - [KTo vs 76s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kto-vs-76s.md) - [QTs vs 87s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qts-vs-87s.md)