--- title: "TT vs KTs: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-kts.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-kts" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "TT is a big favorite over KTs before the flop: 64.14% to 35.86% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-kqo.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-a7s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/99-vs-kts.md"] --- # TT vs KTs: preflop equity TT is a big favorite over KTs before the flop: 64.14% to 35.86% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. If TT and KTs get all the chips in before the flop, TT owns 64.14% of the pot in the long run and KTs owns 35.86%. ## TT against KTs: the numbers **Exact preflop results for TT against KTs, in percent** | 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. **Boards behind the percentages: 20,547,648 counted in all** | 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. **TT against KTs 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 | 1.789 | 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. **TT against KTs by flop texture, in percent** | 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. **TT and KTs 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 | 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. **TT against KTs by suit overlap, in percent** | 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. - [Open TsTh against KdTd in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=TsTh&p2=KdTd) - [TT combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/tt.md) - [KTs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/kts.md) - [TT vs KQo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-kqo.md) - [TT vs A7s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-a7s.md) - [99 vs KTs](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/99-vs-kts.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## 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. ## Related - [TT vs KQo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-kqo.md) - [TT vs A7s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-a7s.md) - [99 vs KTs: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/99-vs-kts.md)