--- title: "KTs vs 43s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-43s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-43s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "KTs is a big favorite over 43s before the flop: 63.40% to 36.60% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-43s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-53s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a8s-vs-43s.md"] --- # KTs vs 43s: preflop equity KTs is a big favorite over 43s before the flop: 63.40% to 36.60% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. The exact count puts KTs at 63.40% and 43s at 36.60% when the two hands see all five board cards. ## KTs against 43s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for KTs against 43s, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KTs | 63.019 | 0.755 | 36.226 | 63.396 | | 43s | 36.226 | 0.755 | 63.019 | 36.604 | The matchup is suited hands on both sides, KTs against 43s. The two hands share no rank, which makes this a pure matchup of card strength, straight chances and flush chances. A 26.80 point lead is real, and 43s still takes about 362 of every 1,000 deals outright. 0.76% of boards are ties, so the equity of each hand is its win rate plus half of that. Place 22 of 169 belongs to KTs and place 150 belongs to 43s in the ranking against a random hand. **Boards behind the percentages: 27,396,864 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KTs | 17,265,000 | 207,000 | 9,925,000 | | 43s | 9,925,000 | 207,000 | 17,265,000 | Exact total: 16 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. **KTs against 43s read as odds** | Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KTs | 1.732 | 1.587 | 2.760 | 0.577 | | 43s | 0.577 | 2.760 | 1.587 | 1.732 | 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 Split by what the flop looks like, KTs peaks at 70.05% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better and bottoms out at 38.85% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower). Low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) favor 43s, the hand that is behind overall. **KTs against 43s by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | KTs wins | Ties | 43s wins | KTs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 24.595 | 69.875 | 0.344 | 29.781 | 70.047 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 6.314 | 38.439 | 0.812 | 60.749 | 38.845 | | Two-tone | 46.727 | 62.494 | 0.403 | 37.103 | 62.695 | | Monotone | 5.273 | 58.688 | 3.710 | 37.602 | 60.543 | | Paired | 17.091 | 65.005 | 1.376 | 33.619 | 65.693 | 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 Start from the random-hand figures, 61.79% for KTs and 38.64% for 43s. This opponent changes them by +1.61 and -2.04 points. **KTs and 43s 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KTs, all flops | 63.396 | 61.789 | +1.607 | 1.02601 | | KTs, rainbow, ten or higher | 70.047 | 61.789 | +8.258 | 1.13365 | | KTs, rainbow, nine or lower | 38.845 | 61.789 | -22.944 | 0.62867 | | KTs, two-tone | 62.695 | 61.789 | +0.906 | 1.01466 | | KTs, monotone | 60.543 | 61.789 | -1.246 | 0.97983 | | KTs, paired | 65.693 | 61.789 | +3.904 | 1.06318 | | 43s, all flops | 36.604 | 38.642 | -2.038 | 0.94726 | | 43s, rainbow, ten or higher | 29.953 | 38.642 | -8.689 | 0.77514 | | 43s, rainbow, nine or lower | 61.155 | 38.642 | +22.513 | 1.58260 | | 43s, two-tone | 37.305 | 38.642 | -1.337 | 0.96540 | | 43s, monotone | 39.457 | 38.642 | +0.815 | 1.02109 | | 43s, paired | 34.307 | 38.642 | -4.335 | 0.88782 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Does suit overlap move the numbers? KTs has 65.74% when the hands share a suit and 62.62% when they do not. KTs does better with a shared suit, by 3.12 points. **KTs against 43s by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | KTs wins | Ties | 43s wins | KTs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 4 | 25.00 | 65.316 | 0.841 | 33.843 | 65.737 | | No shared suit | 12 | 75.00 | 62.253 | 0.726 | 37.021 | 62.616 | ## How often this matchup comes up This page stands for 16 specific-card matchups (0.0010% of 1,624,350 ordered deals), or 32 once you count the seats both ways (0.0020%). ## A worked example To see what the equity is worth, imagine $100 each in a $200 pot. KTs is worth $126.80 on average (+$26.80); 43s is worth $73.20 (-$26.80). A thousand deals look like this: KTs takes 630, 43s takes 362, 8 are ties. ## The same matchup from the other side The reversed view, 43s against KTs, shows 36.60% for 43s and 63.40% for KTs. It is the same count, so it redirects here. ## Keep exploring KsTs against 4h3h 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 KsTs against 4h3h in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=KsTs&p2=4h3h) - [KTs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/kts.md) - [43s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/43s.md) - [KQo vs 43s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-43s.md) - [KTs vs 53s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-53s.md) - [A8s vs 43s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a8s-vs-43s.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed The page is built from a full enumeration: 1,712,304 boards, every suit pattern of the 16 specific deals, both seven-card hands evaluated. A tie is worth half a win to each hand, and a board is tallied under each of its ten possible flops for the texture rows. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [KQo vs 43s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-43s.md) - [KTs vs 53s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-53s.md) - [A8s vs 43s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a8s-vs-43s.md)