--- title: "KTs vs JTs: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-jts.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-jts" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "KTs is a big favorite over JTs before the flop: 69.24% to 30.76% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-a2s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-qto.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-jts.md"] --- # KTs vs JTs: preflop equity KTs is a big favorite over JTs before the flop: 69.24% to 30.76% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. In equity, KTs against JTs stands at 69.24% to 30.76%, a gap of 38.48 points. ## KTs against JTs: the numbers **Exact preflop results for KTs against JTs, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KTs | 67.909 | 2.669 | 29.422 | 69.244 | | JTs | 29.422 | 2.669 | 67.909 | 30.756 | KTs and JTs are both suited hands. Because the hands share one rank, the one with the higher kicker is ahead when that rank pairs and the other hand is mostly drawing. That is a clear edge, 69.24% to 30.76%, but JTs still wins often enough that one hand proves nothing. Ties are part of the picture: 2.67% of boards end in a split pot, and each side counts that as half a win. Ranked by equity against a random hand, KTs is number 22 of the 169 starting hands and JTs is number 45. **Boards behind the percentages: 20,547,648 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KTs | 13,954,000 | 548,000 | 6,046,000 | | JTs | 6,046,000 | 548,000 | 13,954,000 | 12 specific deals times 1,712,304 boards gives the exact total. The won, tied and lost counts are approximations from the five-decimal percentages, rounded to the nearest thousand. **KTs against JTs 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 | 2.251 | 1.473 | 3.399 | 0.444 | | JTs | 0.444 | 3.399 | 1.473 | 2.251 | In the last column, a pot-to-call ratio at or above the figure makes a call break even or better at this equity. ## Who is ahead on which flops If you know the kind of flop that came, the numbers shift: KTs holds 77.20% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) and 62.72% on monotone flops. KTs stays ahead on all five textures. **KTs against JTs by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | KTs wins | Ties | JTs wins | KTs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.138 | 66.995 | 2.595 | 30.410 | 68.293 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.771 | 76.507 | 1.394 | 22.099 | 77.204 | | Two-tone | 46.543 | 66.897 | 2.078 | 31.025 | 67.936 | | Monotone | 5.215 | 60.436 | 4.559 | 35.005 | 62.715 | | Paired | 17.333 | 70.240 | 4.357 | 25.403 | 72.419 | 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 How much does the opponent matter? Compared with its random-hand 61.79%, KTs changes by +7.45 points, and JTs, from 57.53%, by -26.77. **KTs and JTs 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 | 69.244 | 61.789 | +7.455 | 1.12065 | | KTs, rainbow, ten or higher | 68.293 | 61.789 | +6.504 | 1.10526 | | KTs, rainbow, nine or lower | 77.204 | 61.789 | +15.415 | 1.24948 | | KTs, two-tone | 67.936 | 61.789 | +6.147 | 1.09948 | | KTs, monotone | 62.715 | 61.789 | +0.926 | 1.01499 | | KTs, paired | 72.419 | 61.789 | +10.630 | 1.17204 | | JTs, all flops | 30.756 | 57.528 | -26.772 | 0.53463 | | JTs, rainbow, ten or higher | 31.707 | 57.528 | -25.821 | 0.55116 | | JTs, rainbow, nine or lower | 22.796 | 57.528 | -34.732 | 0.39626 | | JTs, two-tone | 32.064 | 57.528 | -25.464 | 0.55736 | | JTs, monotone | 37.285 | 57.528 | -20.243 | 0.64812 | | JTs, paired | 27.581 | 57.528 | -29.947 | 0.47944 | ## Does a shared suit matter? KTs and JTs never overlap in suit in a legal deal, so the whole matchup sits in the no-shared-suit row. **KTs against JTs by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | KTs wins | Ties | JTs wins | KTs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 0 | 0.00 | not possible | not possible | not possible | not possible | | No shared suit | 12 | 100.00 | 67.909 | 2.669 | 29.422 | 69.244 | ## How often this matchup comes up This page stands for 12 specific-card matchups (0.0007% of 1,624,350 ordered deals), or 24 once you count the seats both ways (0.0015%). ## A worked example To see what the equity is worth, imagine $100 each in a $200 pot. KTs is worth $138.48 on average (+$38.48); JTs is worth $61.52 (-$38.48). Run 1,000 deals and the tally comes out near 679 for KTs, 294 for JTs and 27 ties. ## The same matchup from the other side JTs versus KTs is this same page seen from the other hand: 30.76% for JTs, 69.24% for KTs. ## Keep exploring The calculator link fills in KsTs against JhTh, 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 JhTh in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=KsTs&p2=JhTh) - [KTs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/kts.md) - [JTs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/jts.md) - [KTs vs A2s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-a2s.md) - [KTs vs QTo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-qto.md) - [KQo vs JTs](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-jts.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed Method: exact enumeration. The 12 specific deals are grouped by suit pattern, each is run against all 1,712,304 boards, and both seven-card hands are scored. Equity adds half of every tie, and flop textures are tallied over the ten flops inside each board. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [KTs vs A2s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-a2s.md) - [KTs vs QTo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-qto.md) - [KQo vs JTs: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-jts.md)