--- title: "KTs vs 54s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-54s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-54s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "KTs is a big favorite over 54s before the flop: 62.10% to 37.91% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-64s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-53s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-54s.md"] --- # KTs vs 54s: preflop equity KTs is a big favorite over 54s before the flop: 62.10% to 37.91% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Before any board card is dealt, KTs holds 62.10% equity against 54s, which leaves 54s with 37.90%. ## KTs against 54s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for KTs against 54s, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KTs | 61.725 | 0.739 | 37.536 | 62.095 | | 54s | 37.536 | 0.739 | 61.725 | 37.905 | The matchup is suited hands on both sides, KTs against 54s. The two hands share no rank, which makes this a pure matchup of card strength, straight chances and flush chances. That is a modest edge, the kind that shows up over many hands and is easy to miss in one. A split pot comes up on 0.74% of boards, so the wins and the equity differ by half of that. KTs ranks number 22 of 169 starting hands, and 54s ranks number 136, by equity 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 | 16,911,000 | 202,000 | 10,284,000 | | 54s | 10,284,000 | 202,000 | 16,911,000 | The total is exact: 16 specific deals times 1,712,304 boards. The three counts are approximate, worked out from the percentages to five decimals and rounded to the nearest thousand. **KTs against 54s 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 | 1.638 | 1.620 | 2.664 | 0.610 | | 54s | 0.610 | 2.664 | 1.620 | 1.638 | 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 By flop texture, KTs' equity runs from 36.70% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) up to 68.77% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better. 54s takes over on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower), so the favorite before the flop is the underdog on those boards. **KTs against 54s by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | KTs wins | Ties | 54s wins | KTs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 24.595 | 68.598 | 0.344 | 31.058 | 68.770 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 6.314 | 36.324 | 0.745 | 62.931 | 36.696 | | Two-tone | 46.727 | 61.212 | 0.393 | 38.395 | 61.408 | | Monotone | 5.273 | 57.729 | 3.607 | 38.664 | 59.532 | | Paired | 17.091 | 63.854 | 1.368 | 34.778 | 64.538 | 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 How much does the opponent matter? Compared with its random-hand 61.79%, KTs changes by +0.31 points, and 54s, from 41.45%, by -3.55. **KTs and 54s 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 | 62.095 | 61.789 | +0.306 | 1.00495 | | KTs, rainbow, ten or higher | 68.770 | 61.789 | +6.981 | 1.11298 | | KTs, rainbow, nine or lower | 36.696 | 61.789 | -25.093 | 0.59389 | | KTs, two-tone | 61.408 | 61.789 | -0.381 | 0.99383 | | KTs, monotone | 59.532 | 61.789 | -2.257 | 0.96347 | | KTs, paired | 64.538 | 61.789 | +2.749 | 1.04449 | | 54s, all flops | 37.905 | 41.453 | -3.548 | 0.91441 | | 54s, rainbow, ten or higher | 31.230 | 41.453 | -10.223 | 0.75338 | | 54s, rainbow, nine or lower | 63.304 | 41.453 | +21.851 | 1.52713 | | 54s, two-tone | 38.592 | 41.453 | -2.861 | 0.93098 | | 54s, monotone | 40.468 | 41.453 | -0.985 | 0.97624 | | 54s, paired | 35.462 | 41.453 | -5.991 | 0.85547 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Two kinds of deal exist here. In 4 of them the hands share a suit and KTs holds 64.28%. In 12 they do not, and it holds 61.37%. KTs does better with a shared suit, by 2.91 points. **KTs against 54s by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | KTs wins | Ties | 54s wins | KTs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 4 | 25.00 | 63.869 | 0.830 | 35.301 | 64.284 | | No shared suit | 12 | 75.00 | 61.010 | 0.709 | 38.281 | 61.365 | ## How often this matchup comes up How often does it happen? 16 of the 1,624,350 ordered deals (0.0010%) are KTs against 54s, and 32 (0.0020%) if either hand may sit in either seat. ## A worked example Try it with money: two players each put in $100 and the whole board runs out every possible way. KTs averages $124.20 from the $200, up $24.20; 54s averages $75.80, down $24.20. Think in thousands: about 617 of 1,000 go to KTs, about 375 go to 54s, and about 8 are chopped. ## The same matchup from the other side The mirror image, 54s against KTs, is 37.90% to 62.10%, and its address redirects to this page. ## Keep exploring Try KsTs against 5h4h in the calculator: the hands share no suit, and every card can be changed. The links after it are the closest matchups in the ranking. - [Open KsTs against 5h4h in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=KsTs&p2=5h4h) - [KTs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/kts.md) - [54s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/54s.md) - [KTs vs 64s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-64s.md) - [KTs vs 53s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-53s.md) - [KQo vs 54s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-54s.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 64s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-64s.md) - [KTs vs 53s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-53s.md) - [KQo vs 54s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-54s.md)