KTs vs A2s: preflop equity

KTs against A2s: the numbers

The matchup is suited hands on both sides, KTs against A2s. 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. About 0.55% of boards chop the pot, which is why equity sits slightly above the win figure for both hands.

KTs ranks number 22 of 169 starting hands, and A2s ranks number 46, by equity against a random hand.

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.

The last column is the smallest pot odds, written as a pot-to-call ratio, at which a call breaks even with this equity.

Who is ahead on which flops

By flop texture, A2s' equity runs from 50.65% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better up to 73.27% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower). A2s 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 -18.41 points for KTs, from 61.79%, and -0.76 for A2s, from 57.38%.

Does a shared suit matter?

Split by suits, the deals give A2s 58.48% when the hands overlap in a suit and 56.00% when they do not. A2s does better with a shared suit, by 2.48 points.

How often this matchup comes up

KTs against A2s is made up of 16 specific-card matchups in one seat order, 0.0010% of the 1,624,350 ordered deals, and 32 counting both seat orders, 0.0020%.

A worked example

With $100 from each side, the $200 pot is split on average as $113.24 for A2s and $86.76 for KTs; the first side gains $13.24 per all-in and the second gives up $13.24.

A thousand deals look like this: A2s takes 564, KTs takes 431, 5 are ties.

The same matchup from the other side

A2s against KTs adds nothing new: it is 56.62% for A2s and 43.38% for KTs, the same figures reversed.

Keep exploring

The calculator link fills in KsTs against Ah2h, 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 Ah2h in the equity calculator
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