--- title: "KTs vs KJo: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-kjo.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-kjo" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "KJo is a big favorite over KTs before the flop: 68.76% to 31.24% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-55.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-qjs.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-kjo.md"] --- # KTs vs KJo: preflop equity KJo is a big favorite over KTs before the flop: 68.76% to 31.24% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Counting every board, the equity split is 68.76% for KJo and 31.24% for KTs, so KJo leads by 37.52 points. ## KTs against KJo: the numbers **Exact preflop results for KTs against KJo, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KTs | 27.492 | 7.501 | 65.007 | 31.242 | | KJo | 65.007 | 7.501 | 27.492 | 68.758 | We compare a suited hand with 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. A lead of 37.52 points is large but not decisive: KTs still takes about 275 of every 1,000 deals. About 7.50% of boards chop the pot, which is why equity sits slightly above the win figure for both hands. For context, KTs sits at number 22 of 169 starting hands and KJo at number 26 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 | 16,947,000 | 4,624,000 | 40,072,000 | | KJo | 40,072,000 | 4,624,000 | 16,947,000 | 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 KJo 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 | 0.454 | 3.637 | 1.538 | 2.201 | | KJo | 2.201 | 1.538 | 3.637 | 0.454 | 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 Split by what the flop looks like, KJo peaks at 81.27% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) and bottoms out at 63.93% on monotone flops. KJo stays ahead on all five textures, but the swing between them is large, so how the flop looks matters a great deal. **KTs against KJo by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | KTs wins | Ties | KJo wins | KTs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.177 | 28.463 | 5.759 | 65.778 | 31.343 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.771 | 16.934 | 3.603 | 79.463 | 18.735 | | Two-tone | 46.527 | 29.445 | 4.952 | 65.603 | 31.921 | | Monotone | 5.192 | 33.129 | 5.887 | 60.984 | 36.072 | | Paired | 17.333 | 23.994 | 18.908 | 57.098 | 33.448 | A rainbow flop shows three suits, a two-tone flop repeats one suit, a monotone flop is a single suit, and a paired flop repeats a rank. ## Compared with a random hand Relative to a random opponent, KTs changes by -30.55 points (baseline 61.79%) and KJo by +8.19 points (baseline 60.57%). **KTs and KJo 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 | 31.242 | 61.789 | -30.547 | 0.50562 | | KTs, rainbow, ten or higher | 31.343 | 61.789 | -30.446 | 0.50726 | | KTs, rainbow, nine or lower | 18.735 | 61.789 | -43.054 | 0.30321 | | KTs, two-tone | 31.921 | 61.789 | -29.868 | 0.51661 | | KTs, monotone | 36.072 | 61.789 | -25.717 | 0.58379 | | KTs, paired | 33.448 | 61.789 | -28.341 | 0.54133 | | KJo, all flops | 68.758 | 60.569 | +8.189 | 1.13520 | | KJo, rainbow, ten or higher | 68.657 | 60.569 | +8.088 | 1.13353 | | KJo, rainbow, nine or lower | 81.265 | 60.569 | +20.696 | 1.34169 | | KJo, two-tone | 68.079 | 60.569 | +7.510 | 1.12399 | | KJo, monotone | 63.928 | 60.569 | +3.359 | 1.05546 | | KJo, paired | 66.552 | 60.569 | +5.983 | 1.09878 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Looking only at deals where the hands share a suit, KJo has 69.45%; looking only at deals where they do not, 68.41%. KJo does better with a shared suit, by 1.04 points. **KTs against KJo by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | KTs wins | Ties | KJo wins | KTs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 12 | 33.33 | 26.745 | 7.601 | 65.654 | 30.546 | | No shared suit | 24 | 66.67 | 27.865 | 7.452 | 64.683 | 31.591 | ## 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 Worked example: both players commit $100, so $200 sits in the middle. Over every board, KJo's average share is $137.52 (a gain of $37.52) and KTs' is $62.48 (a loss of $37.52). Over a long run, 1,000 deals split into about 650 for KJo, 275 for KTs and 75 tied. ## The same matchup from the other side Read it from the other side: KJo against KTs is the same matchup with the numbers swapped, so KJo holds 68.76% and KTs holds 31.24%. That address sends you back to this page. ## Keep exploring The calculator link fills in KsTs against KhJd, 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 KhJd in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=KsTs&p2=KhJd) - [KTs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/kts.md) - [KJo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/kjo.md) - [KTs vs 55](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-55.md) - [KTs vs QJs](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-qjs.md) - [KQo vs KJo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-kjo.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed The figures are counted, not estimated: 1,712,304 boards for every suit pattern of the 36 specific deals, with both seven-card hands compared each time. Equity gives half a win for a tie. For the flop rows, a board is counted once under each of the ten flops inside it. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [KTs vs 55: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-55.md) - [KTs vs QJs: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-qjs.md) - [KQo vs KJo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-kjo.md)