--- title: "KTs vs Q9s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-q9s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-q9s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "KTs is a big favorite over Q9s before the flop: 63.08% to 36.92% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-jts.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-a2s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-q9s.md"] --- # KTs vs Q9s: preflop equity KTs is a big favorite over Q9s before the flop: 63.08% to 36.92% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. In equity, KTs against Q9s stands at 63.08% to 36.92%, a gap of 26.16 points. ## KTs against Q9s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for KTs against Q9s, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KTs | 62.728 | 0.706 | 36.566 | 63.081 | | Q9s | 36.566 | 0.706 | 62.728 | 36.919 | KTs and Q9s are both suited hands. With no overlap in ranks, every card that pairs one hand is a card that does not pair the other. A 26.16 point lead is real, and Q9s still takes about 366 of every 1,000 deals outright. A split pot comes up on 0.71% of boards, so the wins and the equity differ by half of that. Among the 169 starting hands, KTs is number 22 and Q9s is number 43 by strength against a random hand. **Boards behind the percentages: 27,396,864 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KTs | 17,186,000 | 193,000 | 10,018,000 | | Q9s | 10,018,000 | 193,000 | 17,186,000 | The total is exact: 16 specific deals times 1,712,304 boards. The three counts are approximate, worked out from the percentages to five decimals and rounded to the nearest thousand. **KTs against Q9s 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 | 1.709 | 1.594 | 2.735 | 0.585 | | Q9s | 0.585 | 2.735 | 1.594 | 1.709 | 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 The flop changes the picture. KTs does best on paired flops, at 65.39%, and worst on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower), at 59.29%. KTs stays ahead on all five textures. **KTs against Q9s by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | KTs wins | Ties | Q9s wins | KTs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.867 | 64.608 | 0.286 | 35.106 | 64.751 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.042 | 58.905 | 0.771 | 40.324 | 59.291 | | Two-tone | 46.727 | 62.159 | 0.355 | 37.486 | 62.337 | | Monotone | 5.273 | 57.980 | 3.467 | 38.553 | 59.713 | | Paired | 17.091 | 64.699 | 1.371 | 33.930 | 65.385 | 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 Against one random hand instead, KTs holds 61.79% and Q9s holds 57.66%. Facing each other changes that by +1.29 points for KTs and -20.74 points for Q9s. **KTs and Q9s 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 | 63.081 | 61.789 | +1.292 | 1.02091 | | KTs, rainbow, ten or higher | 64.751 | 61.789 | +2.962 | 1.04794 | | KTs, rainbow, nine or lower | 59.291 | 61.789 | -2.498 | 0.95957 | | KTs, two-tone | 62.337 | 61.789 | +0.548 | 1.00887 | | KTs, monotone | 59.713 | 61.789 | -2.076 | 0.96640 | | KTs, paired | 65.385 | 61.789 | +3.596 | 1.05820 | | Q9s, all flops | 36.919 | 57.664 | -20.745 | 0.64024 | | Q9s, rainbow, ten or higher | 35.249 | 57.664 | -22.415 | 0.61128 | | Q9s, rainbow, nine or lower | 40.709 | 57.664 | -16.955 | 0.70597 | | Q9s, two-tone | 37.663 | 57.664 | -20.001 | 0.65315 | | Q9s, monotone | 40.287 | 57.664 | -17.377 | 0.69865 | | Q9s, paired | 34.615 | 57.664 | -23.049 | 0.60029 | ## Does a shared suit matter? When the hands share a suit, KTs holds 65.55%; when they do not, it holds 62.26%. KTs does better with a shared suit, by 3.29 points. **KTs against Q9s by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | KTs wins | Ties | Q9s wins | KTs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 4 | 25.00 | 65.152 | 0.792 | 34.056 | 65.548 | | No shared suit | 12 | 75.00 | 61.920 | 0.677 | 37.403 | 62.259 | ## How often this matchup comes up KTs against Q9s 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 A $100 all-in from each player makes a $200 pot, and the exact equity says KTs gets $126.16 of it on average and Q9s gets $73.84. In 1,000 deals of exactly this matchup, expect about 627 won outright by KTs, about 366 won outright by Q9s and about 7 split. ## The same matchup from the other side Q9s versus KTs is this same page seen from the other hand: 36.92% for Q9s, 63.08% for KTs. ## Keep exploring KsTs against Qh9h is a ready-made deal for the calculator, with no suit in common between the hands. The neighboring matchups below replace one hand with another of similar strength. - [Open KsTs against Qh9h in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=KsTs&p2=Qh9h) - [KTs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/kts.md) - [Q9s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/q9s.md) - [KTs vs JTs](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-jts.md) - [KTs vs A2s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-a2s.md) - [KQo vs Q9s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-q9s.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed Nothing here is simulated. The 16 deals of KTs against Q9s 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 JTs: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-jts.md) - [KTs vs A2s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-a2s.md) - [KQo vs Q9s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-q9s.md)