--- title: "KTs vs 65s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-65s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-65s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "KTs is a big favorite over 65s before the flop: 62.22% to 37.78% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-54s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-64s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-65s.md"] --- # KTs vs 65s: preflop equity KTs is a big favorite over 65s before the flop: 62.22% to 37.78% 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, KTs finishes with 62.22% of the pot and 65s with 37.78%. ## KTs against 65s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for KTs against 65s, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KTs | 61.866 | 0.705 | 37.429 | 62.218 | | 65s | 37.429 | 0.705 | 61.866 | 37.782 | Two suited hands meet here: KTs against 65s. Neither hand shares a rank with the other, so this is a contest of high cards, connection and suits. That is a modest edge, the kind that shows up over many hands and is easy to miss in one. The tie share is 0.71%: on those boards the pot is chopped and neither hand wins outright. Ranked by equity against a random hand, KTs is number 22 of the 169 starting hands and 65s is number 128. **Boards behind the percentages: 27,396,864 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KTs | 16,949,000 | 193,000 | 10,254,000 | | 65s | 10,254,000 | 193,000 | 16,949,000 | 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 65s 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 | 1.647 | 1.616 | 2.672 | 0.607 | | 65s | 0.607 | 2.672 | 1.616 | 1.647 | 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 Rainbow flops topped by a ten or better are the best for KTs (69.61%); low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) are the worst (34.43%). On low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) the numbers flip and 65s is the one ahead. **KTs against 65s by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | KTs wins | Ties | 65s wins | KTs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 24.595 | 69.449 | 0.312 | 30.239 | 69.605 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 6.314 | 34.103 | 0.650 | 65.247 | 34.428 | | Two-tone | 46.727 | 61.413 | 0.352 | 38.235 | 61.589 | | Monotone | 5.273 | 57.891 | 3.521 | 38.588 | 59.652 | | Paired | 17.091 | 63.675 | 1.386 | 34.939 | 64.368 | Read the flop types this way: rainbow has three suits, two-tone has two cards of one suit, monotone has three, and paired repeats a rank. ## Compared with a random hand A random hand would give KTs 61.79% and 65s 43.13%. Against each other the change is +0.43 points for KTs and -5.35 for 65s. **KTs and 65s 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 | 62.218 | 61.789 | +0.429 | 1.00694 | | KTs, rainbow, ten or higher | 69.605 | 61.789 | +7.816 | 1.12650 | | KTs, rainbow, nine or lower | 34.428 | 61.789 | -27.361 | 0.55719 | | KTs, two-tone | 61.589 | 61.789 | -0.200 | 0.99676 | | KTs, monotone | 59.652 | 61.789 | -2.137 | 0.96541 | | KTs, paired | 64.368 | 61.789 | +2.579 | 1.04174 | | 65s, all flops | 37.782 | 43.133 | -5.351 | 0.87594 | | 65s, rainbow, ten or higher | 30.395 | 43.133 | -12.738 | 0.70468 | | 65s, rainbow, nine or lower | 65.572 | 43.133 | +22.439 | 1.52023 | | 65s, two-tone | 38.411 | 43.133 | -4.722 | 0.89052 | | 65s, monotone | 40.348 | 43.133 | -2.785 | 0.93543 | | 65s, paired | 35.632 | 43.133 | -7.501 | 0.82610 | ## Does a shared suit matter? When the hands share a suit, KTs holds 64.42%; when they do not, it holds 61.48%. KTs does better with a shared suit, by 2.94 points. **KTs against 65s by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | KTs wins | Ties | 65s wins | KTs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 4 | 25.00 | 64.027 | 0.794 | 35.179 | 64.424 | | No shared suit | 12 | 75.00 | 61.146 | 0.675 | 38.179 | 61.483 | ## How often this matchup comes up You will meet this exact matchup 0.0020% of the time in a random heads-up deal: 32 of 1,624,350, counting either seat order. ## A worked example To see what the equity is worth, imagine $100 each in a $200 pot. KTs is worth $124.44 on average (+$24.44); 65s is worth $75.56 (-$24.44). Run 1,000 deals and the tally comes out near 619 for KTs, 374 for 65s and 7 ties. ## The same matchup from the other side Swap the hands and you get 65s with 37.78% against KTs with 62.22%. We keep one page per matchup, with the better-ranked hand first. ## Keep exploring The calculator link fills in KsTs against 6h5h, 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 6h5h in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=KsTs&p2=6h5h) - [KTs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/kts.md) - [65s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/65s.md) - [KTs vs 54s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-54s.md) - [KTs vs 64s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-64s.md) - [KQo vs 65s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-65s.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 - [KTs vs 54s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-54s.md) - [KTs vs 64s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-64s.md) - [KQo vs 65s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-65s.md)