--- title: "QQ vs KQs: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-kqs.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-kqs" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "QQ is a big favorite over KQs before the flop: 64.66% to 35.34% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-66.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-a9s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-kqs.md"] --- # QQ vs KQs: preflop equity QQ is a big favorite over KQs before the flop: 64.66% to 35.34% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. In equity, QQ against KQs stands at 64.66% to 35.34%, a gap of 29.32 points. ## QQ against KQs: the numbers **Exact preflop results for QQ against KQs, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QQ | 64.079 | 1.165 | 34.756 | 64.661 | | KQs | 34.756 | 1.165 | 64.079 | 35.339 | One side is a pocket pair, the other is a suited 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 29.32 point lead is real, and KQs still takes about 347 of every 1,000 deals outright. Ties are 1.17% of the outcomes here; each tied board gives both hands half the pot. Among the 169 starting hands, QQ is number 3 and KQs is number 16 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QQ | 13,167,000 | 239,000 | 7,142,000 | | KQs | 7,142,000 | 239,000 | 13,167,000 | The total is exact: 12 specific deals times 1,712,304 boards. The three counts are approximate, worked out from the percentages to five decimals and rounded to the nearest thousand. **QQ against KQs 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 | 1.830 | 1.561 | 2.877 | 0.547 | | KQs | 0.547 | 2.877 | 1.561 | 1.830 | 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 Break the boards down by their first three cards and QQ is strongest on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) (82.63%) and weakest on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better (59.53%). 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 KQs by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | QQ wins | Ties | KQs wins | QQ equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.011 | 58.849 | 1.359 | 39.792 | 59.529 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.771 | 81.966 | 1.320 | 16.714 | 82.626 | | Two-tone | 46.236 | 61.495 | 1.234 | 37.271 | 62.112 | | Monotone | 5.151 | 59.356 | 2.304 | 38.340 | 60.508 | | Paired | 17.831 | 71.096 | 0.340 | 28.564 | 71.266 | 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 Compared with a random opponent, this matchup shifts QQ from 79.93% by -15.27 points and KQs from 63.40% by -28.06 points. **QQ and KQs 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 | 64.661 | 79.925 | -15.264 | 0.80902 | | QQ, rainbow, ten or higher | 59.529 | 79.925 | -20.396 | 0.74481 | | QQ, rainbow, nine or lower | 82.626 | 79.925 | +2.701 | 1.03379 | | QQ, two-tone | 62.112 | 79.925 | -17.813 | 0.77713 | | QQ, monotone | 60.508 | 79.925 | -19.417 | 0.75706 | | QQ, paired | 71.266 | 79.925 | -8.659 | 0.89166 | | KQs, all flops | 35.339 | 63.400 | -28.061 | 0.55740 | | KQs, rainbow, ten or higher | 40.471 | 63.400 | -22.929 | 0.63834 | | KQs, rainbow, nine or lower | 17.374 | 63.400 | -46.026 | 0.27404 | | KQs, two-tone | 37.888 | 63.400 | -25.512 | 0.59760 | | KQs, monotone | 39.492 | 63.400 | -23.908 | 0.62290 | | KQs, paired | 28.734 | 63.400 | -34.666 | 0.45322 | ## Does a shared suit matter? A shared suit is impossible for this matchup, so QQ's 64.66% is the answer for every suit pattern. **QQ against KQs by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | QQ wins | Ties | KQs wins | QQ equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 0 | 0.00 | not possible | not possible | not possible | not possible | | No shared suit | 12 | 100.00 | 64.079 | 1.165 | 34.756 | 64.661 | ## How often this matchup comes up You will meet this exact matchup 0.0015% of the time in a random heads-up deal: 24 of 1,624,350, counting either seat order. ## A worked example Say each player puts $100 in before the flop, making a $200 pot. On average QQ takes back $129.32 of it, which is $29.32 more than it put in, and KQs takes back $70.68, $29.32 less than it put in. Scaled to 1,000 deals, that is roughly 641 wins for QQ, 347 for KQs and 12 chopped pots. ## The same matchup from the other side If you came looking for KQs against QQ, the numbers are the same with the hands swapped: 35.34% and 64.66%. ## Keep exploring QsQh against KdQd is a ready-made deal for the calculator, with no suit in common between the hands. The neighboring matchups below replace one hand with another of similar strength. - [Open QsQh against KdQd in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=QsQh&p2=KdQd) - [QQ combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/qq.md) - [KQs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/kqs.md) - [QQ vs 66](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-66.md) - [QQ vs A9s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-a9s.md) - [JJ vs KQs](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-kqs.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 12 specific deals of QQ against KQs, 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 66: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-66.md) - [QQ vs A9s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-a9s.md) - [JJ vs KQs: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-kqs.md)