--- title: "KTs vs K9o: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-k9o.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-k9o" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "KTs is a big favorite over K9o before the flop: 73.23% to 26.77% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-q9s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-jts.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-k9o.md"] --- # KTs vs K9o: preflop equity KTs is a big favorite over K9o before the flop: 73.23% to 26.77% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. In equity, KTs against K9o stands at 73.23% to 26.77%, a gap of 46.46 points. ## KTs against K9o: the numbers **Exact preflop results for KTs against K9o, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KTs | 68.261 | 9.931 | 21.808 | 73.227 | | K9o | 21.808 | 9.931 | 68.261 | 26.773 | The first hand is a suited hand; the second is an offsuit hand. 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 well ahead, and K9o needs a specific kind of board to catch up. 9.93% of boards are ties, so the equity of each hand is its win rate plus half of that. For context, KTs sits at number 22 of 169 starting hands and K9o at number 40 when each is run against a random hand. **Boards behind the percentages: 61,642,944 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KTs | 42,078,000 | 6,122,000 | 13,443,000 | | K9o | 13,443,000 | 6,122,000 | 42,078,000 | The board total is exact, 36 deals at 1,712,304 boards each. Won, tied and lost counts are rounded to the nearest thousand from the five-decimal percentages. **KTs against K9o 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 | 2.735 | 1.465 | 4.585 | 0.366 | | K9o | 0.366 | 4.585 | 1.465 | 2.735 | The last column is the break-even price: the pot odds a call needs to offer, as a ratio of pot to call. ## Who is ahead on which flops KTs prefers rainbow flops topped by a ten or better, where it holds 77.37%, and likes low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) least, where it holds 64.53%. KTs stays ahead on all five textures. **KTs against K9o by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | KTs wins | Ties | K9o wins | KTs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.905 | 73.037 | 8.670 | 18.293 | 77.372 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.042 | 63.209 | 2.647 | 34.144 | 64.532 | | Two-tone | 46.527 | 71.032 | 6.916 | 22.052 | 74.490 | | Monotone | 5.192 | 62.883 | 7.402 | 29.715 | 66.584 | | Paired | 17.334 | 57.903 | 23.479 | 18.618 | 69.642 | 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 Compared with a random opponent, this matchup shifts KTs from 61.79% by +11.44 points and K9o from 57.81% by -31.04 points. **KTs and K9o 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 | 73.227 | 61.789 | +11.438 | 1.18511 | | KTs, rainbow, ten or higher | 77.372 | 61.789 | +15.583 | 1.25220 | | KTs, rainbow, nine or lower | 64.532 | 61.789 | +2.743 | 1.04439 | | KTs, two-tone | 74.490 | 61.789 | +12.701 | 1.20555 | | KTs, monotone | 66.584 | 61.789 | +4.795 | 1.07760 | | KTs, paired | 69.642 | 61.789 | +7.853 | 1.12709 | | K9o, all flops | 26.773 | 57.812 | -31.039 | 0.46310 | | K9o, rainbow, ten or higher | 22.628 | 57.812 | -35.184 | 0.39141 | | K9o, rainbow, nine or lower | 35.468 | 57.812 | -22.344 | 0.61351 | | K9o, two-tone | 25.510 | 57.812 | -32.302 | 0.44126 | | K9o, monotone | 33.416 | 57.812 | -24.396 | 0.57801 | | K9o, paired | 30.358 | 57.812 | -27.454 | 0.52512 | ## Does a shared suit matter? The suit split reads 73.01% for KTs with a shared suit and 73.33% without one. KTs does better with no shared suit, by 0.32 points. **KTs against K9o by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | KTs wins | Ties | K9o wins | KTs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 12 | 33.33 | 67.993 | 10.042 | 21.965 | 73.014 | | No shared suit | 24 | 66.67 | 68.396 | 9.875 | 21.729 | 73.333 | ## How often this matchup comes up The class pair covers 36 combinations of specific cards in a fixed seat order, 0.0022% of 1,624,350, and 72 (0.0044%) in either order. ## A worked example Put $100 each into a $200 pot and deal every board once: KTs averages $146.46 back, ahead of its $100 by $46.46, while K9o averages $53.54, short of its $100 by $46.46. Scaled to 1,000 deals, that is roughly 683 wins for KTs, 218 for K9o and 99 chopped pots. ## The same matchup from the other side K9o against KTs adds nothing new: it is 26.77% for K9o and 73.23% for KTs, the same figures reversed. ## Keep exploring Try KsTs against Kh9d 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 Kh9d in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=KsTs&p2=Kh9d) - [KTs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/kts.md) - [K9o combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/k9o.md) - [KTs vs Q9s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-q9s.md) - [KTs vs JTs](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-jts.md) - [KQo vs K9o](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-k9o.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed This is an exact count with no sampling. For the 36 ways to deal one KTs and one K9o without reusing a card, grouped by suit pattern, every one of the 1,712,304 possible boards is dealt and both seven-card hands are compared. A tie counts as half a win in the equity column, and each board is counted once under each of its ten three-card flops. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [KTs vs Q9s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-q9s.md) - [KTs vs JTs: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-jts.md) - [KQo vs K9o: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-k9o.md)