--- title: "KTs vs JTo: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-jto.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-jto" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "KTs is a big favorite over JTo before the flop: 73.19% to 26.81% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-t9s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-33.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-jto.md"] --- # KTs vs JTo: preflop equity KTs is a big favorite over JTo before the flop: 73.19% to 26.81% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. The exact count puts KTs at 73.19% and JTo at 26.81% when the two hands see all five board cards. ## KTs against JTo: the numbers **Exact preflop results for KTs against JTo, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KTs | 71.828 | 2.722 | 25.450 | 73.189 | | JTo | 25.450 | 2.722 | 71.828 | 26.811 | Here a suited hand (KTs) meets an offsuit hand (JTo). Sharing a rank is the signature of a dominated hand, since the weaker hand is usually out-kicked when the shared rank shows up. KTs is the clear favorite, though JTo gets there on roughly one board in 4. Split pots make up 2.72% of the boards, and both equity figures count them as half a win each. Ranked by equity against a random hand, KTs is number 22 of the 169 starting hands and JTo is number 57. **Boards behind the percentages: 61,642,944 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KTs | 44,277,000 | 1,678,000 | 15,688,000 | | JTo | 15,688,000 | 1,678,000 | 44,277,000 | Exact total: 36 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 JTo 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 | 2.730 | 1.392 | 3.929 | 0.366 | | JTo | 0.366 | 3.929 | 1.392 | 2.730 | 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, KTs' equity runs from 65.75% on monotone flops up to 79.99% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower). KTs stays ahead on all five textures. **KTs against JTo by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | KTs wins | Ties | JTo wins | KTs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.177 | 69.066 | 2.651 | 28.283 | 70.392 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.771 | 79.267 | 1.450 | 19.283 | 79.992 | | Two-tone | 46.527 | 71.936 | 2.214 | 25.850 | 73.043 | | Monotone | 5.192 | 63.908 | 3.685 | 32.407 | 65.751 | | Paired | 17.333 | 74.268 | 4.461 | 21.271 | 76.499 | 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 The table below sets each hand against its own random-hand baseline: a change of +11.40 points for KTs, from 61.79%, and -28.44 for JTo, from 55.25%. **KTs and JTo 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 | 73.189 | 61.789 | +11.400 | 1.18450 | | KTs, rainbow, ten or higher | 70.392 | 61.789 | +8.603 | 1.13923 | | KTs, rainbow, nine or lower | 79.992 | 61.789 | +18.203 | 1.29460 | | KTs, two-tone | 73.043 | 61.789 | +11.254 | 1.18214 | | KTs, monotone | 65.751 | 61.789 | +3.962 | 1.06412 | | KTs, paired | 76.499 | 61.789 | +14.710 | 1.23807 | | JTo, all flops | 26.811 | 55.248 | -28.437 | 0.48528 | | JTo, rainbow, ten or higher | 29.608 | 55.248 | -25.640 | 0.53591 | | JTo, rainbow, nine or lower | 20.008 | 55.248 | -35.240 | 0.36215 | | JTo, two-tone | 26.957 | 55.248 | -28.291 | 0.48793 | | JTo, monotone | 34.249 | 55.248 | -20.999 | 0.61991 | | JTo, paired | 23.501 | 55.248 | -31.747 | 0.42537 | ## Does a shared suit matter? The suit split reads 72.99% for KTs with a shared suit and 73.29% without one. KTs does better with no shared suit, by 0.30 points. **KTs against JTo by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | KTs wins | Ties | JTo wins | KTs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 12 | 33.33 | 71.576 | 2.820 | 25.604 | 72.986 | | No shared suit | 24 | 66.67 | 71.954 | 2.673 | 25.373 | 73.291 | ## How often this matchup comes up This page stands for 36 specific-card matchups (0.0022% of 1,624,350 ordered deals), or 72 once you count the seats both ways (0.0044%). ## A worked example A $100 all-in from each player makes a $200 pot, and the exact equity says KTs gets $146.38 of it on average and JTo gets $53.62. Think in thousands: about 718 of 1,000 go to KTs, about 255 go to JTo, and about 27 are chopped. ## The same matchup from the other side One page covers both views. From JTo's side the equity is 26.81%, and from KTs' side it is 73.19%. ## Keep exploring Try KsTs against JhTd 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 JhTd in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=KsTs&p2=JhTd) - [KTs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/kts.md) - [JTo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/jto.md) - [KTs vs T9s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-t9s.md) - [KTs vs 33](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-33.md) - [KQo vs JTo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-jto.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed Nothing here is simulated. The 36 deals of KTs against JTo fall into a few suit patterns, each dealt against all 1,712,304 boards, with both best five-card hands compared on every board. Ties give each hand half a win, and the flop rows count a board under each of its ten flops. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [KTs vs T9s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-t9s.md) - [KTs vs 33: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-33.md) - [KQo vs JTo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-jto.md)