--- title: "TT vs KQo: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-kqo.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-kqo" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "Who is ahead, TT or KQo? TT leads 56.49% to 43.51% before the flop, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-a7s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-a9o.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/99-vs-kqo.md"] --- # TT vs KQo: preflop equity Who is ahead, TT or KQo? TT leads 56.49% to 43.51% before the flop, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Counting every board, the equity split is 56.49% for TT and 43.51% for KQo, so TT leads by 12.98 points. ## TT against KQo: the numbers **Exact preflop results for TT against KQo, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | TT | 56.292 | 0.396 | 43.312 | 56.490 | | KQo | 43.312 | 0.396 | 56.292 | 43.510 | TT is a pocket pair and KQo is an offsuit hand. One hand holds a pair and the other holds two cards that both outrank it, which keeps the equity closer than most people expect. A 12.98 point lead is real, and KQo still takes about 433 of every 1,000 deals outright. Ties are 0.40% of the outcomes here; each tied board gives both hands half the pot. The hand ranking puts TT at 5 and KQo at 23 out of 169 starting hands. **Boards behind the percentages: 123,285,888 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | TT | 69,400,000 | 488,000 | 53,398,000 | | KQo | 53,398,000 | 488,000 | 69,400,000 | 72 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. **TT 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | TT | 1.298 | 1.776 | 2.309 | 0.770 | | KQo | 0.770 | 2.309 | 1.776 | 1.298 | 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 Low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) are the best for TT (75.56%); rainbow flops topped by a ten or better are the worst (48.93%). KQo is ahead on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better, even though it trails TT when every flop is counted. **TT against KQo by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | TT wins | Ties | KQo wins | TT equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.260 | 48.858 | 0.141 | 51.001 | 48.928 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.771 | 75.043 | 1.039 | 23.918 | 75.563 | | Two-tone | 46.485 | 55.033 | 0.351 | 44.616 | 55.209 | | Monotone | 5.151 | 51.439 | 1.725 | 46.836 | 52.301 | | Paired | 17.333 | 62.681 | 0.176 | 37.143 | 62.769 | 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 The table below sets each hand against its own random-hand baseline: a change of -18.52 points for TT, from 75.01%, and -17.95 for KQo, from 61.46%. **TT 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | TT, all flops | 56.490 | 75.012 | -18.522 | 0.75308 | | TT, rainbow, ten or higher | 48.928 | 75.012 | -26.084 | 0.65227 | | TT, rainbow, nine or lower | 75.563 | 75.012 | +0.551 | 1.00735 | | TT, two-tone | 55.209 | 75.012 | -19.803 | 0.73600 | | TT, monotone | 52.301 | 75.012 | -22.711 | 0.69724 | | TT, paired | 62.769 | 75.012 | -12.243 | 0.83679 | | KQo, all flops | 43.510 | 61.456 | -17.946 | 0.70799 | | KQo, rainbow, ten or higher | 51.072 | 61.456 | -10.384 | 0.83103 | | KQo, rainbow, nine or lower | 24.437 | 61.456 | -37.019 | 0.39763 | | KQo, two-tone | 44.791 | 61.456 | -16.665 | 0.72883 | | KQo, monotone | 47.699 | 61.456 | -13.757 | 0.77615 | | KQo, paired | 37.231 | 61.456 | -24.225 | 0.60582 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Split by suits, the deals give TT 56.41% when the hands overlap in a suit and 56.91% when they do not. TT does better with no shared suit, by 0.50 points. **TT against KQo by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | TT wins | Ties | KQo wins | TT equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 60 | 83.33 | 56.202 | 0.412 | 43.386 | 56.408 | | No shared suit | 12 | 16.67 | 56.746 | 0.317 | 42.937 | 56.905 | ## How often this matchup comes up Counting specific cards, TT against KQo 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 A $100 all-in from each player makes a $200 pot, and the exact equity says TT gets $112.98 of it on average and KQo gets $87.02. Per 1,000 deals: TT wins about 563, KQo wins about 433, and about 4 end in a split pot. ## The same matchup from the other side KQo against TT adds nothing new: it is 43.51% for KQo and 56.49% for TT, the same figures reversed. ## Keep exploring TsTh against KdQc 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 TsTh against KdQc in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=TsTh&p2=KdQc) - [TT combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/tt.md) - [KQo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/kqo.md) - [TT vs A7s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-a7s.md) - [TT vs A9o](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-a9o.md) - [99 vs KQo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/99-vs-kqo.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed Nothing here is simulated. The 72 deals of TT against KQo fall into a few suit patterns, each dealt against all 1,712,304 boards, with both best five-card hands compared on every board. Ties give each hand half a win, and the flop rows count a board under each of its ten flops. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [TT vs A7s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-a7s.md) - [TT vs A9o: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-a9o.md) - [99 vs KQo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/99-vs-kqo.md)