--- title: "KTo vs JTs: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kto-vs-jts.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kto-vs-jts" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "KTo is a big favorite over JTs before the flop: 68.14% to 31.86% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kto-vs-a2s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kto-vs-qto.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qts-vs-jts.md"] --- # KTo vs JTs: preflop equity KTo is a big favorite over JTs before the flop: 68.14% to 31.86% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Over all 1,712,304 boards that can follow this deal, KTo finishes with 68.14% of the pot and JTs with 31.86%. ## KTo against JTs: the numbers **Exact preflop results for KTo against JTs, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KTo | 66.776 | 2.735 | 30.489 | 68.143 | | JTs | 30.489 | 2.735 | 66.776 | 31.857 | KTo, an offsuit hand, plays JTs, a suited hand. Because the hands share one rank, the one with the higher kicker is ahead when that rank pairs and the other hand is mostly drawing. KTo is well ahead, and JTs needs a specific kind of board to catch up. Ties are 2.74% 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 JTs is number 45. **Boards behind the percentages: 61,642,944 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KTo | 41,163,000 | 1,686,000 | 18,794,000 | | JTs | 18,794,000 | 1,686,000 | 41,163,000 | The board total is exact, 36 deals at 1,712,304 boards each. Won, tied and lost counts are rounded to the nearest thousand from the five-decimal percentages. **KTo against JTs 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 | 2.139 | 1.498 | 3.280 | 0.468 | | JTs | 0.468 | 3.280 | 1.498 | 2.139 | 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 If you know the kind of flop that came, the numbers shift: KTo holds 76.43% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) and 63.96% on monotone flops. KTo stays ahead on all five textures. **KTo against JTs by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | KTo wins | Ties | JTs wins | KTo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.177 | 66.083 | 2.653 | 31.264 | 67.409 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.771 | 75.689 | 1.471 | 22.840 | 76.425 | | Two-tone | 46.527 | 65.225 | 2.233 | 32.542 | 66.341 | | Monotone | 5.192 | 62.106 | 3.713 | 34.181 | 63.963 | | Paired | 17.333 | 69.269 | 4.466 | 26.265 | 71.502 | 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 A random hand would give KTo 59.74% and JTs 57.53%. Against each other the change is +8.40 points for KTo and -25.67 for JTs. **KTo and JTs 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 | 68.143 | 59.739 | +8.404 | 1.14068 | | KTo, rainbow, ten or higher | 67.409 | 59.739 | +7.670 | 1.12839 | | KTo, rainbow, nine or lower | 76.425 | 59.739 | +16.686 | 1.27932 | | KTo, two-tone | 66.341 | 59.739 | +6.602 | 1.11051 | | KTo, monotone | 63.963 | 59.739 | +4.224 | 1.07071 | | KTo, paired | 71.502 | 59.739 | +11.763 | 1.19691 | | JTs, all flops | 31.857 | 57.528 | -25.671 | 0.55377 | | JTs, rainbow, ten or higher | 32.591 | 57.528 | -24.937 | 0.56652 | | JTs, rainbow, nine or lower | 23.575 | 57.528 | -33.953 | 0.40980 | | JTs, two-tone | 33.659 | 57.528 | -23.869 | 0.58509 | | JTs, monotone | 36.037 | 57.528 | -21.491 | 0.62643 | | JTs, paired | 28.498 | 57.528 | -29.030 | 0.49538 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Split by suits, the deals give KTo 69.12% when the hands overlap in a suit and 67.66% when they do not. KTo does better with a shared suit, by 1.46 points. **KTo against JTs by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | KTo wins | Ties | JTs wins | KTo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 12 | 33.33 | 67.705 | 2.820 | 29.475 | 69.115 | | No shared suit | 24 | 66.67 | 66.311 | 2.692 | 30.997 | 67.657 | ## How often this matchup comes up This page stands for 36 specific-card matchups (0.0022% of 1,624,350 ordered deals), or 72 once you count the seats both ways (0.0044%). ## A worked example Take a $200 pot built from $100 each. KTo's equity of 68.14% is worth $136.28, a $36.28 edge, and JTs' 31.86% is worth $63.72, which is $36.28 under its stake. In 1,000 deals of exactly this matchup, expect about 668 won outright by KTo, about 305 won outright by JTs and about 27 split. ## The same matchup from the other side Swap the hands and you get JTs with 31.86% against KTo with 68.14%. We keep one page per matchup, with the better-ranked hand first. ## Keep exploring Open the calculator with KsTh against JdTd 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 JdTd in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=KsTh&p2=JdTd) - [KTo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/kto.md) - [JTs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/jts.md) - [KTo vs A2s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kto-vs-a2s.md) - [KTo vs QTo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kto-vs-qto.md) - [QTs vs JTs](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qts-vs-jts.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed We counted every case. Each suit pattern of the 36 specific KTo against JTs 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 A2s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kto-vs-a2s.md) - [KTo vs QTo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kto-vs-qto.md) - [QTs vs JTs: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qts-vs-jts.md)