KQs vs KQo

When KQs and KQo get all in before the flop, KQs wins 52.5% of the time and KQo takes 47.5%. Broken down, KQs wins outright 7.2%, chops 90.6% and loses 2.2% — a margin of 5 points. Domination — a shared rank turns this into a kicker fight, and kicker fights are lopsided.

The same matchup shifts depending on how the suits overlap. With no shared suit the number is 52.5% (for example Ks Qs against Kh Qd); with no shared suit it is 52.5% (Ks Qs against Kh Qd). That is a spread of 0 points across the 24 distinct card combinations, and it comes almost entirely from whether the two hands are fighting over the same flush.

Add a third player holding a random hand and the split becomes KQs 32.1%, KQo 27.3%, random 40.6%. KQs gives up 20.4 points and KQo gives up 20.2, so the favourite loses more than the underdog does. Extra players always eat into the leader's share faster than into anyone else's.

Taken on their own, KQs is worth 63.4% against a random hand (rank 16 of 169) and KQo is worth 61.5% (rank 23). The gap between them in the ranking is only 1.9 points, yet head to head the gap is 5 points — a reminder that a ranking table and a direct matchup are two different questions.

Framed as a run of one hundred identical all-ins, KQs scoops roughly 7 pots, splits about 91, and loses the remaining 2. Against eight random opponents rather than this one specific hand, KQs would be down to 20.4% and KQo to 16.7%, so the shape of this particular confrontation matters far more than either hand's standing in the overall ranking.

From KQo's side, 47.5% is the break-even point for calling an all-in at 1.11:1 pot odds. Put another way, the call is profitable as long as the amount you have to put in is less than 47.5% of the pot you are playing for. KQs holds the other 52.5% of that same pot.

Two caveats keep this figure honest. First, it is showdown equity across all 24 card combinations with five board cards still to come — there is no fold equity in it, so the value of shoving in practice is usually higher than the raw percentage suggests. Second, it assumes KQo really does hold exactly KQo; against the wider range a player would actually get all in with, KQs's 52.5% moves. Use the individual pages for KQs and KQo to see how each of them fares against all 168 other holdings before treating this single pairing as the whole picture.