--- title: "QQ vs KJo: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-kjo.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-kjo" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "QQ is a big favorite over KJo before the flop: 71.54% to 28.46% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-55.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-qjs.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-kjo.md"] --- # QQ vs KJo: preflop equity QQ is a big favorite over KJo before the flop: 71.54% to 28.46% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Dealt all in against each other, QQ takes 71.54% of the pot on average and KJo takes the other 28.46%. ## QQ against KJo: the numbers **Exact preflop results for QQ against KJo, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QQ | 71.335 | 0.411 | 28.254 | 71.541 | | KJo | 28.254 | 0.411 | 71.335 | 28.459 | QQ is a pocket pair and KJo is an offsuit hand. One of the other hand's cards outranks the pair and one is below it, which makes this a closer race than a pair against two small cards. QQ is the clear favorite, though KJo gets there on roughly one board in 4. A split pot comes up on 0.41% of boards, so the wins and the equity differ by half of that. Ranked by equity against a random hand, QQ is number 3 of the 169 starting hands and KJo is number 26. **Boards behind the percentages: 123,285,888 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QQ | 87,946,000 | 507,000 | 34,833,000 | | KJo | 34,833,000 | 507,000 | 87,946,000 | The board total is exact, 72 deals at 1,712,304 boards each. Won, tied and lost counts are rounded to the nearest thousand from the five-decimal percentages. **QQ 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QQ | 2.514 | 1.402 | 3.539 | 0.398 | | KJo | 0.398 | 3.539 | 1.402 | 2.514 | 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 Split by what the flop looks like, QQ peaks at 85.65% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) and bottoms out at 66.51% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better. QQ stays ahead on all five textures, but the swing between them is large, so how the flop looks matters a great deal. **QQ against KJo by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | QQ wins | Ties | KJo wins | QQ equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.260 | 66.448 | 0.113 | 33.439 | 66.505 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.771 | 85.018 | 1.270 | 13.712 | 85.653 | | Two-tone | 46.485 | 70.594 | 0.385 | 29.021 | 70.787 | | Monotone | 5.151 | 65.864 | 1.750 | 32.386 | 66.739 | | Paired | 17.333 | 75.371 | 0.099 | 24.530 | 75.420 | Rainbow flops have three suits, two-tone flops repeat one suit, monotone flops are all one suit, and paired flops repeat a rank. ## Compared with a random hand A random hand would give QQ 79.93% and KJo 60.57%. Against each other the change is -8.39 points for QQ and -32.11 for KJo. **QQ 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QQ, all flops | 71.541 | 79.925 | -8.384 | 0.89510 | | QQ, rainbow, ten or higher | 66.505 | 79.925 | -13.420 | 0.83209 | | QQ, rainbow, nine or lower | 85.653 | 79.925 | +5.728 | 1.07167 | | QQ, two-tone | 70.787 | 79.925 | -9.138 | 0.88567 | | QQ, monotone | 66.739 | 79.925 | -13.186 | 0.83502 | | QQ, paired | 75.420 | 79.925 | -4.505 | 0.94363 | | KJo, all flops | 28.459 | 60.569 | -32.110 | 0.46986 | | KJo, rainbow, ten or higher | 33.495 | 60.569 | -27.074 | 0.55301 | | KJo, rainbow, nine or lower | 14.347 | 60.569 | -46.222 | 0.23687 | | KJo, two-tone | 29.213 | 60.569 | -31.356 | 0.48231 | | KJo, monotone | 33.261 | 60.569 | -27.308 | 0.54914 | | KJo, paired | 24.580 | 60.569 | -35.989 | 0.40582 | ## Does a shared suit matter? When the hands share a suit, QQ holds 71.58%; when they do not, it holds 71.37%. The two rows differ by only 0.21 points, so suits barely change this matchup. **QQ against KJo by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | QQ wins | Ties | KJo wins | QQ equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 60 | 83.33 | 71.361 | 0.427 | 28.212 | 71.575 | | No shared suit | 12 | 16.67 | 71.206 | 0.331 | 28.463 | 71.371 | ## How often this matchup comes up Counting specific cards, QQ against KJo appears in 72 of the 1,624,350 ordered heads-up deals (0.0044%), and in 144 when the seats are swapped too (0.0089%). ## A worked example Put $100 each into a $200 pot and deal every board once: QQ averages $143.08 back, ahead of its $100 by $43.08, while KJo averages $56.92, short of its $100 by $43.08. Over a long run, 1,000 deals split into about 713 for QQ, 283 for KJo and 4 tied. ## The same matchup from the other side One page covers both views. From KJo's side the equity is 28.46%, and from QQ's side it is 71.54%. ## Keep exploring Try QsQh against KdJc 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 QsQh against KdJc in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=QsQh&p2=KdJc) - [QQ combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/qq.md) - [KJo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/kjo.md) - [QQ vs 55](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-55.md) - [QQ vs QJs](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-qjs.md) - [JJ vs KJo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-kjo.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed All 1,712,304 five-card boards are dealt for every suit pattern among the 72 specific deals of QQ against KJo, and both hands are scored on each. That is a full count, so the percentages are exact. Ties are half a win each, and each board appears once per flop it contains. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [QQ vs 55: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-55.md) - [QQ vs QJs: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-qjs.md) - [JJ vs KJo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-kjo.md)