--- title: "KTs vs QTs: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-qts.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-qts" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "KTs is a big favorite over QTs before the flop: 70.62% to 29.38% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-a4s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-a3s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-qts.md"] --- # KTs vs QTs: preflop equity KTs is a big favorite over QTs before the flop: 70.62% to 29.38% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Dealt all in against each other, KTs takes 70.62% of the pot on average and QTs takes the other 29.38%. ## KTs against QTs: the numbers **Exact preflop results for KTs against QTs, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KTs | 69.243 | 2.753 | 28.004 | 70.620 | | QTs | 28.004 | 2.753 | 69.243 | 29.380 | Two suited hands meet here: KTs against QTs. 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 41.24 points is large but not decisive: QTs still takes about 280 of every 1,000 deals. The tie share is 2.75%: on those boards the pot is chopped and neither hand wins outright. Among the 169 starting hands, KTs is number 22 and QTs is number 34 by strength against a random hand. **Boards behind the percentages: 20,547,648 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KTs | 14,228,000 | 566,000 | 5,754,000 | | QTs | 5,754,000 | 566,000 | 14,228,000 | Exact total: 12 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 QTs 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 | 2.404 | 1.444 | 3.571 | 0.416 | | QTs | 0.416 | 3.571 | 1.444 | 2.404 | The final column gives the least the pot must offer for each unit called for a call to break even at this equity. ## Who is ahead on which flops If you know the kind of flop that came, the numbers shift: KTs holds 81.73% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) and 63.65% on monotone flops. KTs stays ahead on all five textures, but the swing between them is large, so how the flop looks matters a great deal. **KTs against QTs by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | KTs wins | Ties | QTs wins | KTs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.138 | 67.798 | 2.370 | 29.832 | 68.983 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.771 | 80.456 | 2.542 | 17.002 | 81.727 | | Two-tone | 46.543 | 68.261 | 2.166 | 29.573 | 69.344 | | Monotone | 5.215 | 61.359 | 4.589 | 34.052 | 63.653 | | Paired | 17.333 | 71.154 | 4.385 | 24.461 | 73.346 | 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 Start from the random-hand figures, 61.79% for KTs and 59.47% for QTs. This opponent changes them by +8.83 and -30.09 points. **KTs and QTs 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 | 70.620 | 61.789 | +8.831 | 1.14292 | | KTs, rainbow, ten or higher | 68.983 | 61.789 | +7.194 | 1.11643 | | KTs, rainbow, nine or lower | 81.727 | 61.789 | +19.938 | 1.32268 | | KTs, two-tone | 69.344 | 61.789 | +7.555 | 1.12227 | | KTs, monotone | 63.653 | 61.789 | +1.864 | 1.03017 | | KTs, paired | 73.346 | 61.789 | +11.557 | 1.18704 | | QTs, all flops | 29.380 | 59.468 | -30.088 | 0.49405 | | QTs, rainbow, ten or higher | 31.017 | 59.468 | -28.451 | 0.52157 | | QTs, rainbow, nine or lower | 18.273 | 59.468 | -41.195 | 0.30727 | | QTs, two-tone | 30.656 | 59.468 | -28.812 | 0.51550 | | QTs, monotone | 36.347 | 59.468 | -23.121 | 0.61120 | | QTs, paired | 26.654 | 59.468 | -32.814 | 0.44821 | ## Does a shared suit matter? The hands cannot hold a suit in common here, which leaves a single case and a single number: 70.62% for KTs. **KTs against QTs by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | KTs wins | Ties | QTs wins | KTs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 0 | 0.00 | not possible | not possible | not possible | not possible | | No shared suit | 12 | 100.00 | 69.243 | 2.753 | 28.004 | 70.620 | ## How often this matchup comes up Exactly 12 specific deals fit this matchup in one seat order, which is 0.0007% of 1,624,350; both orders together give 24, or 0.0015%. ## A worked example A $100 all-in from each player makes a $200 pot, and the exact equity says KTs gets $141.24 of it on average and QTs gets $58.76. Run 1,000 deals and the tally comes out near 692 for KTs, 280 for QTs and 28 ties. ## The same matchup from the other side The mirror image, QTs against KTs, is 29.38% to 70.62%, and its address redirects to this page. ## Keep exploring Open the calculator with KsTs against QhTh already entered, a deal with no shared suit, and change any card to try your own hand. The matchups after it each swap one hand for a nearby one in the ranking. - [Open KsTs against QhTh in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=KsTs&p2=QhTh) - [KTs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/kts.md) - [QTs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/qts.md) - [KTs vs A4s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-a4s.md) - [KTs vs A3s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-a3s.md) - [KQo vs QTs](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-qts.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed Nothing here is simulated. The 12 deals of KTs against QTs 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 A4s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-a4s.md) - [KTs vs A3s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-a3s.md) - [KQo vs QTs: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-qts.md)