TT
64.14%
Wins 63.14%, ties 2.00%
KTs
35.86%
Wins 34.86%, ties 2.00%
TT against KTs: the numbers
| Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TT | 63.144 | 1.999 | 34.857 | 64.143 |
| KTs | 34.857 | 1.999 | 63.144 | 35.857 |
TT is a pocket pair and KTs is a suited hand. One hand holds a card of the same rank as the pair, which removes a card the pair needs and makes the pair a bigger favorite.
TT is ahead, but KTs is far from dead: it takes 349 of every 1,000 deals outright. Ties are 2.00% of the outcomes here; each tied board gives both hands half the pot.
By strength against a random hand, TT holds place 5 of 169 and KTs holds place 22.
| Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about |
|---|---|---|---|
| TT | 12,975,000 | 411,000 | 7,162,000 |
| KTs | 7,162,000 | 411,000 | 12,975,000 |
12 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.
| Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TT | 1.789 | 1.584 | 2.869 | 0.559 |
| KTs | 0.559 | 2.869 | 1.584 | 1.789 |
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. TT does best on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower), at 81.72%, and worst on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better, at 59.19%. TT stays ahead on all five textures, but the swing between them is large, so how the flop looks matters a great deal.
| Flop | Share of flops | TT wins | Ties | KTs wins | TT equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.011 | 58.190 | 2.001 | 39.809 | 59.190 |
| Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.771 | 80.051 | 3.343 | 16.606 | 81.723 |
| Two-tone | 46.236 | 60.617 | 2.122 | 37.261 | 61.678 |
| Monotone | 5.151 | 58.788 | 2.864 | 38.348 | 60.220 |
| Paired | 17.831 | 69.978 | 0.842 | 29.180 | 70.399 |
Read the flop types this way: rainbow has three suits, two-tone has two cards of one suit, monotone has three, and paired repeats a rank.
Compared with a random hand
A random hand would give TT 75.01% and KTs 61.79%. Against each other the change is -10.87 points for TT and -25.93 for KTs.
| Case | Equity here | Against a random hand | Change in points | Times the random-hand equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TT, all flops | 64.143 | 75.012 | -10.869 | 0.85510 |
| TT, rainbow, ten or higher | 59.190 | 75.012 | -15.822 | 0.78907 |
| TT, rainbow, nine or lower | 81.723 | 75.012 | +6.711 | 1.08947 |
| TT, two-tone | 61.678 | 75.012 | -13.334 | 0.82224 |
| TT, monotone | 60.220 | 75.012 | -14.792 | 0.80280 |
| TT, paired | 70.399 | 75.012 | -4.613 | 0.93850 |
| KTs, all flops | 35.857 | 61.789 | -25.932 | 0.58031 |
| KTs, rainbow, ten or higher | 40.810 | 61.789 | -20.979 | 0.66047 |
| KTs, rainbow, nine or lower | 18.277 | 61.789 | -43.512 | 0.29580 |
| KTs, two-tone | 38.322 | 61.789 | -23.467 | 0.62021 |
| KTs, monotone | 39.780 | 61.789 | -22.009 | 0.64380 |
| KTs, paired | 29.601 | 61.789 | -32.188 | 0.47907 |
Does a shared suit matter?
Every legal deal of TT against KTs leaves the hands with no suit in common, so the suit split does not apply here.
| Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | TT wins | Ties | KTs wins | TT equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Share a suit | 0 | 0.00 | not possible | not possible | not possible | not possible |
| No shared suit | 12 | 100.00 | 63.144 | 1.999 | 34.857 | 64.143 |
How often this matchup comes up
Out of 1,624,350 ways to deal two seats two cards each, 12 are TT in one seat and KTs in the other (0.0007%); with the seats swapped too, 24 (0.0015%).
A worked example
Say each player puts $100 in before the flop, making a $200 pot. On average TT takes back $128.28 of it, which is $28.28 more than it put in, and KTs takes back $71.72, $28.28 less than it put in.
A thousand deals look like this: TT takes 631, KTs takes 349, 20 are ties.
The same matchup from the other side
KTs versus TT is this same page seen from the other hand: 35.86% for KTs, 64.14% for TT.
Keep exploring
Try TsTh against KdTd 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.
How this was computed
Each figure is a complete count over boards. Take the 12 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.
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