--- title: "QQ vs KQo: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-kqo.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-kqo" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "QQ is a big favorite over KQo before the flop: 68.54% to 31.46% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-a7s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-a9o.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-kqo.md"] --- # QQ vs KQo: preflop equity QQ is a big favorite over KQo before the flop: 68.54% to 31.46% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. If QQ and KQo get all the chips in before the flop, QQ owns 68.54% of the pot in the long run and KQo owns 31.46%. ## QQ against KQo: the numbers **Exact preflop results for QQ against KQo, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QQ | 67.935 | 1.201 | 30.864 | 68.536 | | KQo | 30.864 | 1.201 | 67.935 | 31.464 | We compare a pocket pair with an offsuit hand. The pair already holds one of the other hand's ranks, and that overlap cuts down the cards the other hand can pair with. A lead of 37.08 points is large but not decisive: KQo still takes about 309 of every 1,000 deals. 1.20% of boards are ties, so the equity of each hand is its win rate plus half of that. QQ ranks number 3 of 169 starting hands, and KQo ranks number 23, by equity against a random hand. **Boards behind the percentages: 61,642,944 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QQ | 41,877,000 | 740,000 | 19,025,000 | | KQo | 19,025,000 | 740,000 | 41,877,000 | The board total is exact, 36 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 KQo 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 | 2.178 | 1.472 | 3.240 | 0.459 | | KQo | 0.459 | 3.240 | 1.472 | 2.178 | In the last column, a pot-to-call ratio at or above the figure makes a call break even or better at this equity. ## Who is ahead on which flops The flop changes the picture. QQ does best on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower), at 85.97%, and worst on monotone flops, at 61.54%. 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 KQo by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | QQ wins | Ties | KQo wins | QQ equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.053 | 61.086 | 1.393 | 37.521 | 61.782 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.771 | 85.282 | 1.385 | 13.333 | 85.974 | | Two-tone | 46.215 | 66.457 | 1.325 | 32.218 | 67.119 | | Monotone | 5.130 | 60.589 | 1.905 | 37.506 | 61.541 | | Paired | 17.831 | 75.178 | 0.346 | 24.476 | 75.351 | 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 Start from the random-hand figures, 79.93% for QQ and 61.46% for KQo. This opponent changes them by -11.39 and -30.00 points. **QQ and KQo 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 | 68.536 | 79.925 | -11.389 | 0.85750 | | QQ, rainbow, ten or higher | 61.782 | 79.925 | -18.143 | 0.77300 | | QQ, rainbow, nine or lower | 85.974 | 79.925 | +6.049 | 1.07568 | | QQ, two-tone | 67.119 | 79.925 | -12.806 | 0.83977 | | QQ, monotone | 61.541 | 79.925 | -18.384 | 0.76998 | | QQ, paired | 75.351 | 79.925 | -4.574 | 0.94277 | | KQo, all flops | 31.464 | 61.456 | -29.992 | 0.51198 | | KQo, rainbow, ten or higher | 38.218 | 61.456 | -23.238 | 0.62188 | | KQo, rainbow, nine or lower | 14.026 | 61.456 | -47.430 | 0.22823 | | KQo, two-tone | 32.881 | 61.456 | -28.575 | 0.53503 | | KQo, monotone | 38.459 | 61.456 | -22.997 | 0.62580 | | KQo, paired | 24.649 | 61.456 | -36.807 | 0.40108 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Looking only at deals where the hands share a suit, QQ has 68.47%; looking only at deals where they do not, 68.68%. The two rows differ by only 0.21 points, so suits barely change this matchup. **QQ against KQo by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | QQ wins | Ties | KQo wins | QQ equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 24 | 66.67 | 67.850 | 1.232 | 30.918 | 68.466 | | No shared suit | 12 | 33.33 | 68.106 | 1.138 | 30.756 | 68.675 | ## How often this matchup comes up Out of 1,624,350 ways to deal two seats two cards each, 36 are QQ in one seat and KQo in the other (0.0022%); with the seats swapped too, 72 (0.0044%). ## A worked example Take a $200 pot built from $100 each. QQ's equity of 68.54% is worth $137.08, a $37.08 edge, and KQo's 31.46% is worth $62.92, which is $37.08 under its stake. Think in thousands: about 679 of 1,000 go to QQ, about 309 go to KQo, and about 12 are chopped. ## The same matchup from the other side If you came looking for KQo against QQ, the numbers are the same with the hands swapped: 31.46% and 68.54%. ## Keep exploring Try QsQh against KdQc 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 KdQc in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=QsQh&p2=KdQc) - [QQ combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/qq.md) - [KQo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/kqo.md) - [QQ vs A7s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-a7s.md) - [QQ vs A9o](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-a9o.md) - [JJ vs KQo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-kqo.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed Each figure is a complete count over boards. Take the 36 specific deals, group them by suit pattern, deal all 1,712,304 boards against each, and compare the two seven-card hands. Equity counts a tie as half a win; the flop rows use every one of a board's ten flops. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [QQ vs A7s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-a7s.md) - [QQ vs A9o: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-a9o.md) - [JJ vs KQo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-kqo.md)