--- title: "KTs vs 53s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-53s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-53s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "KTs is a big favorite over 53s before the flop: 63.35% to 36.65% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-43s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-53s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-64s.md"] --- # KTs vs 53s: preflop equity KTs is a big favorite over 53s before the flop: 63.35% to 36.65% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. The exact count puts KTs at 63.35% and 53s at 36.65% when the two hands see all five board cards. ## KTs against 53s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for KTs against 53s, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KTs | 62.978 | 0.749 | 36.273 | 63.352 | | 53s | 36.273 | 0.749 | 62.978 | 36.648 | Both hands are suited hands: KTs and 53s. With no overlap in ranks, every card that pairs one hand is a card that does not pair the other. KTs is ahead, but 53s is far from dead: it takes 363 of every 1,000 deals outright. A split pot comes up on 0.75% of boards, so the wins and the equity differ by half of that. By strength against a random hand, KTs holds place 22 of 169 and 53s holds place 146. **Boards behind the percentages: 27,396,864 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KTs | 17,254,000 | 205,000 | 9,938,000 | | 53s | 9,938,000 | 205,000 | 17,254,000 | 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 53s 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 | 1.729 | 1.588 | 2.757 | 0.578 | | 53s | 0.578 | 2.757 | 1.588 | 1.729 | 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 KTs' equity moves by 31.25 points, from 38.79% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) to 70.04% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better. On low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) the numbers flip and 53s is the one ahead. **KTs against 53s by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | KTs wins | Ties | 53s wins | KTs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 24.595 | 69.863 | 0.344 | 29.793 | 70.035 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 6.314 | 38.381 | 0.812 | 60.807 | 38.787 | | Two-tone | 46.727 | 62.474 | 0.403 | 37.123 | 62.676 | | Monotone | 5.273 | 58.672 | 3.619 | 37.709 | 60.481 | | Paired | 17.091 | 64.860 | 1.372 | 33.768 | 65.546 | 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 Compared with a random opponent, this matchup shifts KTs from 61.79% by +1.56 points and 53s from 39.69% by -3.04 points. **KTs and 53s 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 | 63.352 | 61.789 | +1.563 | 1.02530 | | KTs, rainbow, ten or higher | 70.035 | 61.789 | +8.246 | 1.13345 | | KTs, rainbow, nine or lower | 38.787 | 61.789 | -23.002 | 0.62773 | | KTs, two-tone | 62.676 | 61.789 | +0.887 | 1.01436 | | KTs, monotone | 60.481 | 61.789 | -1.308 | 0.97883 | | KTs, paired | 65.546 | 61.789 | +3.757 | 1.06080 | | 53s, all flops | 36.648 | 39.693 | -3.045 | 0.92329 | | 53s, rainbow, ten or higher | 29.965 | 39.693 | -9.728 | 0.75492 | | 53s, rainbow, nine or lower | 61.213 | 39.693 | +21.520 | 1.54216 | | 53s, two-tone | 37.324 | 39.693 | -2.369 | 0.94032 | | 53s, monotone | 39.519 | 39.693 | -0.174 | 0.99562 | | 53s, paired | 34.454 | 39.693 | -5.239 | 0.86801 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Does suit overlap move the numbers? KTs has 65.69% when the hands share a suit and 62.57% when they do not. KTs does better with a shared suit, by 3.12 points. **KTs against 53s by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | KTs wins | Ties | 53s wins | KTs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 4 | 25.00 | 65.272 | 0.840 | 33.888 | 65.692 | | No shared suit | 12 | 75.00 | 62.213 | 0.719 | 37.068 | 62.572 | ## How often this matchup comes up Counting specific cards, KTs against 53s appears in 16 of the 1,624,350 ordered heads-up deals (0.0010%), and in 32 when the seats are swapped too (0.0020%). ## A worked example Say each player puts $100 in before the flop, making a $200 pot. On average KTs takes back $126.70 of it, which is $26.70 more than it put in, and 53s takes back $73.30, $26.70 less than it put in. A thousand deals look like this: KTs takes 630, 53s takes 363, 7 are ties. ## The same matchup from the other side The reversed view, 53s against KTs, shows 36.65% for 53s and 63.35% for KTs. It is the same count, so it redirects here. ## Keep exploring The calculator link fills in KsTs against 5h3h, a deal where the two hands share no suit. Change any card to test your own hand. The neighboring matchups below swap one of the two hands for one of similar strength. - [Open KsTs against 5h3h in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=KsTs&p2=5h3h) - [KTs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/kts.md) - [53s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/53s.md) - [KTs vs 43s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-43s.md) - [KQo vs 53s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-53s.md) - [KTs vs 64s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-64s.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed Each figure is a complete count over boards. Take the 16 specific deals, group them by suit pattern, deal all 1,712,304 boards against each, and compare the two seven-card hands. Equity counts a tie as half a win; the flop rows use every one of a board's ten flops. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [KTs vs 43s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-43s.md) - [KQo vs 53s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-53s.md) - [KTs vs 64s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-64s.md)