--- title: "QQ vs KJs: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-kjs.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-kjs" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "QQ is a big favorite over KJs before the flop: 67.92% to 32.08% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-a8s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-kts.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-kjs.md"] --- # QQ vs KJs: preflop equity QQ is a big favorite over KJs before the flop: 67.92% to 32.08% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Over all 1,712,304 boards that can follow this deal, QQ finishes with 67.92% of the pot and KJs with 32.08%. ## QQ against KJs: the numbers **Exact preflop results for QQ against KJs, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QQ | 67.704 | 0.424 | 31.872 | 67.916 | | KJs | 31.872 | 0.424 | 67.704 | 32.084 | One side is a pocket pair, the other is a suited hand. The pair sits between the other hand's two cards: one is higher and one is lower, so the pair is exposed to the higher card. That is a clear edge, 67.92% to 32.08%, but KJs still wins often enough that one hand proves nothing. 0.42% of boards are ties, so the equity of each hand is its win rate plus half of that. Ranked by equity against a random hand, QQ is number 3 of the 169 starting hands and KJs is number 20. **Boards behind the percentages: 41,095,296 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QQ | 27,823,000 | 174,000 | 13,098,000 | | KJs | 13,098,000 | 174,000 | 27,823,000 | 24 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. **QQ against KJs 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 | 2.117 | 1.477 | 3.138 | 0.472 | | KJs | 0.472 | 3.138 | 1.477 | 2.117 | 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 By flop texture, QQ's equity runs from 63.10% on monotone flops up to 82.74% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower). 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 KJs by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | QQ wins | Ties | KJs wins | QQ equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.138 | 64.684 | 0.108 | 35.208 | 64.738 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.771 | 82.131 | 1.210 | 16.659 | 82.736 | | Two-tone | 46.545 | 65.817 | 0.348 | 33.835 | 65.991 | | Monotone | 5.212 | 61.887 | 2.418 | 35.695 | 63.096 | | Paired | 17.334 | 72.080 | 0.099 | 27.821 | 72.130 | 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 The table below sets each hand against its own random-hand baseline: a change of -12.01 points for QQ, from 79.93%, and -30.49 for KJs, from 62.57%. **QQ and KJs 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 | 67.916 | 79.925 | -12.009 | 0.84975 | | QQ, rainbow, ten or higher | 64.738 | 79.925 | -15.187 | 0.80998 | | QQ, rainbow, nine or lower | 82.736 | 79.925 | +2.811 | 1.03517 | | QQ, two-tone | 65.991 | 79.925 | -13.934 | 0.82566 | | QQ, monotone | 63.096 | 79.925 | -16.829 | 0.78944 | | QQ, paired | 72.130 | 79.925 | -7.795 | 0.90247 | | KJs, all flops | 32.084 | 62.567 | -30.483 | 0.51279 | | KJs, rainbow, ten or higher | 35.262 | 62.567 | -27.305 | 0.56359 | | KJs, rainbow, nine or lower | 17.264 | 62.567 | -45.303 | 0.27593 | | KJs, two-tone | 34.009 | 62.567 | -28.558 | 0.54356 | | KJs, monotone | 36.904 | 62.567 | -25.663 | 0.58983 | | KJs, paired | 27.870 | 62.567 | -34.697 | 0.44544 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Looking only at deals where the hands share a suit, QQ has 68.16%; looking only at deals where they do not, 67.67%. QQ does better with a shared suit, by 0.49 points. **QQ against KJs by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | QQ wins | Ties | KJs wins | QQ equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 12 | 50.00 | 67.930 | 0.464 | 31.606 | 68.162 | | No shared suit | 12 | 50.00 | 67.477 | 0.384 | 32.139 | 67.669 | ## How often this matchup comes up Out of 1,624,350 ways to deal two seats two cards each, 24 are QQ in one seat and KJs in the other (0.0015%); with the seats swapped too, 48 (0.0030%). ## A worked example Say each player puts $100 in before the flop, making a $200 pot. On average QQ takes back $135.84 of it, which is $35.84 more than it put in, and KJs takes back $64.16, $35.84 less than it put in. Out of 1,000 deals you should see around 677 outright wins for QQ, 319 for KJs, and 4 split pots. ## The same matchup from the other side Swap the hands and you get KJs with 32.08% against QQ with 67.92%. We keep one page per matchup, with the better-ranked hand first. ## Keep exploring The calculator link fills in QsQh against KdJd, 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 QsQh against KdJd in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=QsQh&p2=KdJd) - [QQ combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/qq.md) - [KJs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/kjs.md) - [QQ vs A8s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-a8s.md) - [QQ vs KTs](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-kts.md) - [JJ vs KJs](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-kjs.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed Method: exact enumeration. The 24 specific deals are grouped by suit pattern, each is run against all 1,712,304 boards, and both seven-card hands are scored. Equity adds half of every tie, and flop textures are tallied over the ten flops inside each board. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [QQ vs A8s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-a8s.md) - [QQ vs KTs: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-kts.md) - [JJ vs KJs: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-kjs.md)