KTo

KTo (king-ten offsuit) wins 59.8% of the time against a single random opponent, which places it 33th out of the 169 starting hands — the top 19.5% of the range. At a six-handed table (five opponents) its equity falls to 22.5% and its rank moves to 30; nine-handed (eight opponents) it holds 14.3% for rank 45. Two unconnected offsuit cards — the class of hand most often overvalued.

Its suited/offsuit twin KTs runs at 61.8% (rank 22), a gap of 2 points. Losing the shared suit costs 2 points of raw equity. The hand directly above it in the ranking is A5s at 59.8%, and directly below is QTs at 59.5%, so three hands are packed into a band of 0.3 points.

Played heads-up against each of the other 168 hands, KTo is a favourite against 126 of them and an underdog against 42. Its best matchup is T2o at 76.6% and its worst is KK at 9.6% — a spread of 67 points, which is why calling KTo simply "strong" or "weak" says very little. 2 opponents land inside one point of a coinflip, the closest being 22 at 49.4%.

KTo dominates 8 hands that share one of its ranks, pushing hardest against T2o at 76.6%. It is dominated by 8 hands in return, the worst of them ATs, which leaves KTo with only 24.9%. A single kicker can move the number by tens of points, and the full table below lists every one of those opponents.

Within the 78 offsuit hands it comes 9 of 78. The strongest hand in that group, AKo, is 5.6 points away, and the weakest, 32o, sits 27.5 points below. Measured against the average equity of all 169 hands, 51%, KTo lands +8.8 points from the middle of the pack, and 32 hands in the full ranking are still ahead of it.

Adding players costs equity steadily: 59.8% against one opponent, 41.9% against two, 26.4% against four and 14.3% against eight. That last figure is 129% of an even nine-way share (11.1%). The Chen formula scores this hand at 6 points, and it arrives 0.9% of the time (12 of 1,326 combinations).

One caveat worth repeating: every number on this page assumes the opponent holds a completely random hand and that the pot goes to showdown. Real opponents hold ranges, and a range that has already put money in is stronger than random — which is exactly why KTo reads as 59.8% here but plays worse than that against a raise. Use the 168 rows in the table below to see which specific holdings are the problem, rather than treating the headline figure as a verdict on the hand.

KTo pairs the board on the flop — at least one of its two ranks hits — 32.4% of the time, and flops top pair or better (the paired card is the highest on the board, or two pair and up) 23.0%. By the river it has made a pair or better 48.7% of the time.

For straights, the flop completes one 0.653% of the time (128 flops), gives an eight-out draw 4.00% and a four-out gutshot 13.4%. By the river a straight using a hole card completes 5.60% of the time.

Put together, KTo flops a pair or better or a strong draw (an eight-out straight draw) 36.6% of the time — rank 101 of the 156 unpaired hands (tied with 3 others). The highest is JTs, T9s, 98s and 4 others at 50.6% and the lowest AKo, A2o at 32.8%.

Against one random hand, KTo goes from 59.7% before the flop up to 80.6% when either card pairs, and down to 49.7% when both miss. It connects 32.4% of the time (6,356 of 19,600 flops). Missing with a card above K on board leaves 54.1%; missing with nothing above K leaves 48.2%.

By board shape: rainbow 60.2%, two-tone 59.5%, monotone 58.7%. A monotone flop in one of your suits gives 68.1%. A paired board gives 60.2%, and a connected board (three ranks within five) 55.4%. The best row in the table is "Either card hits (a matching rank on the flop)" at 80.6%, the worst "and nothing above K" at 48.2%.

The 59.8% at the top of the page is a 400,000-hand simulation; this table counts every deal of the opponent's two cards and the five-card board (2,097,572,400 per starting hand), which puts the pre-flop figure at 59.74% (a gap of 0.06 points). Each equity is taken with the flop out and the turn and river still to come.