KQ vs KJ
King-queen against king-jack, all in before the flop. No ace in either hand, and the queen kicker still decides it.
Also written as king-queen vs king-jack. Suitedness variants: KQs vs KJs, KQs vs KJo, KQo vs KJs and KQo vs KJo.
The numbers
KQ
king-queen
73.2%
equity
KJ
king-jack
26.8%
equity
| Outcome | Share of boards |
|---|---|
| KQ wins | 70.4% |
| KJ wins | 24.1% |
| Split pot | 5.5% |
Exact, not simulated. KQ means king-queen and KJ means king-jack: 192 legal ways to deal the two hands, and every one of the 1,712,304 possible five-card boards dealt for each — 328,762,368 board-and-hand combinations in total, each one scored by the same evaluator the calculator uses. Combinations that are the same hand with the suits renamed were counted once and weighted by how many they stand for: 10 distinct suit patterns stand in for all 192, which is the same answer for 19 times less work.
Why it comes out this way
Both hands contain a king, but king-queen has the stronger kicker: queen over jack. Pairing the jack can put king-jack ahead, while straights and flushes can also change the winner. The hands split the pot on 5.5% of boards.
King-queen wins 70.4% and king-jack wins 24.1%. Suitedness is part of the answer: against king-jack, KQs wins 71.3% and KQo wins 70.1%. The KQ wins figure in the table is the average of both, weighted the way they actually come out of a deck — one suited combination for every three offsuit.
Open it in the calculator
The link below deals one typical version of this matchup — Kof spadesQof spades against Kof heartsJof diamonds — into the calculator, with both hands set and the board empty. Add community cards one at a time to watch the equity move, or change a card to see how much the suits are worth.