--- title: "KTs vs T9s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-t9s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-t9s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "KTs is a big favorite over T9s before the flop: 68.63% to 31.37% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-33.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-t8s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-t9s.md"] --- # KTs vs T9s: preflop equity KTs is a big favorite over T9s before the flop: 68.63% to 31.37% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Counting every board, the equity split is 68.63% for KTs and 31.37% for T9s, so KTs leads by 37.26 points. ## KTs against T9s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for KTs against T9s, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KTs | 67.111 | 3.030 | 29.859 | 68.626 | | T9s | 29.859 | 3.030 | 67.111 | 31.374 | Two suited hands meet here: KTs against T9s. 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 the clear favorite, though T9s gets there on roughly one board in 3. The tie share is 3.03%: on those boards the pot is chopped and neither hand wins outright. Place 22 of 169 belongs to KTs and place 64 belongs to T9s in the ranking 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 | 13,790,000 | 623,000 | 6,135,000 | | T9s | 6,135,000 | 623,000 | 13,790,000 | 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 T9s 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 | 2.187 | 1.490 | 3.349 | 0.457 | | T9s | 0.457 | 3.349 | 1.490 | 2.187 | 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 KTs prefers rainbow flops topped by a ten or better, where it holds 73.44%, and likes low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) least, where it holds 57.21%. 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 T9s by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | KTs wins | Ties | T9s wins | KTs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.867 | 72.055 | 2.775 | 25.170 | 73.443 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.042 | 55.897 | 2.623 | 41.480 | 57.208 | | Two-tone | 46.543 | 66.069 | 2.464 | 31.467 | 67.301 | | Monotone | 5.215 | 59.970 | 4.827 | 35.203 | 62.384 | | Paired | 17.333 | 69.805 | 4.529 | 25.666 | 72.069 | 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 How much does the opponent matter? Compared with its random-hand 61.79%, KTs changes by +6.84 points, and T9s, from 54.03%, by -22.66. **KTs and T9s 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 | 68.626 | 61.789 | +6.837 | 1.11065 | | KTs, rainbow, ten or higher | 73.443 | 61.789 | +11.654 | 1.18861 | | KTs, rainbow, nine or lower | 57.208 | 61.789 | -4.581 | 0.92586 | | KTs, two-tone | 67.301 | 61.789 | +5.512 | 1.08921 | | KTs, monotone | 62.384 | 61.789 | +0.595 | 1.00963 | | KTs, paired | 72.069 | 61.789 | +10.280 | 1.16637 | | T9s, all flops | 31.374 | 54.028 | -22.654 | 0.58070 | | T9s, rainbow, ten or higher | 26.557 | 54.028 | -27.471 | 0.49154 | | T9s, rainbow, nine or lower | 42.792 | 54.028 | -11.236 | 0.79203 | | T9s, two-tone | 32.699 | 54.028 | -21.329 | 0.60522 | | T9s, monotone | 37.616 | 54.028 | -16.412 | 0.69623 | | T9s, paired | 27.931 | 54.028 | -26.097 | 0.51697 | ## Does a shared suit matter? For this pair the shared-suit row is empty: the two hands cannot both own a card of one suit without reusing a card. **KTs against T9s by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | KTs wins | Ties | T9s wins | KTs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 0 | 0.00 | not possible | not possible | not possible | not possible | | No shared suit | 12 | 100.00 | 67.111 | 3.030 | 29.859 | 68.626 | ## How often this matchup comes up The class pair covers 12 combinations of specific cards in a fixed seat order, 0.0007% of 1,624,350, and 24 (0.0015%) in either order. ## A worked example To see what the equity is worth, imagine $100 each in a $200 pot. KTs is worth $137.26 on average (+$37.26); T9s is worth $62.74 (-$37.26). Over a long run, 1,000 deals split into about 671 for KTs, 299 for T9s and 30 tied. ## The same matchup from the other side One page covers both views. From T9s' side the equity is 31.37%, and from KTs' side it is 68.63%. ## Keep exploring Open the calculator with KsTs against Th9h 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 Th9h in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=KsTs&p2=Th9h) - [KTs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/kts.md) - [T9s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/t9s.md) - [KTs vs 33](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-33.md) - [KTs vs T8s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-t8s.md) - [KQo vs T9s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-t9s.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed We counted every case. Each suit pattern of the 12 specific KTs against T9s deals meets all 1,712,304 boards, and the better five-card hand wins; a split pot is half a win each. The flop table reads each board under all ten of its three-card flops. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [KTs vs 33: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-33.md) - [KTs vs T8s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-t8s.md) - [KQo vs T9s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-t9s.md)