KTo vs T9o: preflop equity

KTo against T9o: the numbers

KTo meets T9o, and both are offsuit hands. Sharing a rank is the signature of a dominated hand, since the weaker hand is usually out-kicked when the shared rank shows up.

That is a clear edge, 71.52% to 28.48%, but T9o still wins often enough that one hand proves nothing. About 3.21% of boards chop the pot, which is why equity sits slightly above the win figure for both hands.

Place 33 of 169 belongs to KTo and place 78 belongs to T9o in the ranking against a random hand.

Exact total: 108 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.

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

Across the five flop textures KTo's equity moves by 17.59 points, from 57.64% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) to 75.23% on paired flops. KTo stays ahead on all five textures, but the swing between them is large, so how the flop looks matters a great deal.

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

The table below sets each hand against its own random-hand baseline: a change of +11.78 points for KTo, from 59.74%, and -23.05 for T9o, from 51.53%.

Does a shared suit matter?

When the hands share a suit, KTo holds 71.68%; when they do not, it holds 70.95%. KTo does better with a shared suit, by 0.73 points.

How often this matchup comes up

This page stands for 108 specific-card matchups (0.0066% of 1,624,350 ordered deals), or 216 once you count the seats both ways (0.0133%).

A worked example

With $100 from each side, the $200 pot is split on average as $143.04 for KTo and $56.96 for T9o; the first side gains $43.04 per all-in and the second gives up $43.04.

Run 1,000 deals and the tally comes out near 699 for KTo, 269 for T9o and 32 ties.

The same matchup from the other side

Swap the hands and you get T9o with 28.48% against KTo with 71.52%. We keep one page per matchup, with the better-ranked hand first.

Keep exploring

Open the calculator with KsTh against Td9c 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 Td9c in the equity calculator
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• T9o combos
• KTo vs 98s
• KTo vs 22
• QTs vs T9o
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