K4s preflop: king-four suited

King-four suited has 54.9% against a random hand, the 60th best of the 169 starting hands. Below are its odds against every hand and on the flop, and what the charts do with it from each seat.

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Quick answers

Is K4s a good hand?

K4s ranks 60th of the 169 starting hands by against a random hand, in the top 36% of hand classes. Classes have different numbers of card combinations; this is not a deal-frequency percentile. First in at 100bb, the charts say: raise from the button and the small blind; fold from under the gun, middle position and the cutoff.

What is K4s's equity against AA?

15.8% all in before the flop.

How often does K4s hit the flop?

K4s makes one pair or better on 47.0% of flops, counting pairs on the board, and two pair or better on 6.6%.

K4s against common hands

for K4s all in before the flop. The line marks 50%; linked hands have their own matchup page.
  • AA15.8%
  • KK11.6%
  • QQ31.4%
  • JJ31.4%
  • TT31.5%
  • 7733.0%
  • 2249.2%
  • AKs26.8%
  • AKo27.8%
  • AQo39.0%
  • AJo38.9%
  • KQs29.0%
  • KQo30.2%
  • JTs54.0%
  • T9s54.2%
  • 72o65.9%

K4s against every hand

Each cell is K4s's in percent against that hand, all in before the flop. Blue cells are hands K4s is ahead of, red cells hands it is behind.

Under 20%20–35%35–45%45–55%55–65%65–80%80% and up

K4s equity against each of the 169 hands, in percent
AA 16AKs 27AQs 36AJs 36ATs 36A9s 37A8s 37A7s 37A6s 37A5s 36A4s 27A3s 40A2s 40
AKo 28KK 12KQs 29KJs 30KTs 31K9s 33K8s 36K7s 39K6s 42K5s 45K4s 50K3s 53K2s 53
AQo 39KQo 30QQ 31QJs 55QTs 55Q9s 56Q8s 58Q7s 59Q6s 59Q5s 59Q4s 72Q3s 63Q2s 63
AJo 39KJo 31QJo 58JJ 31JTs 54J9s 55J8s 57J7s 58J6s 59J5s 59J4s 71J3s 63J2s 63
ATo 39KTo 32QTo 58JTo 57TT 32T9s 54T8s 56T7s 57T6s 58T5s 59T4s 71T3s 62T2s 63
A9o 40K9o 34Q9o 59J9o 58T9o 5799 3298s 5497s 5596s 5695s 5894s 7193s 6292s 62
A8o 40K8o 38Q8o 61J8o 59T8o 5898o 5788 3387s 5586s 5685s 5784s 7083s 6382s 63
A7o 40K7o 40Q7o 62J7o 61T7o 5997o 5887o 5877 3376s 5575s 5674s 6973s 6272s 63
A6o 40K6o 44Q6o 62J6o 62T6o 6196o 5986o 5976o 5866 3365s 5664s 6863s 6162s 62
A5o 38K5o 47Q5o 62J5o 62T5o 6295o 6085o 6075o 5965o 5855 3354s 6753s 6052s 61
A4o 28K4o 52Q4o 76J4o 76T4o 7594o 7584o 7474o 7364o 7254o 7044 3643s 6942s 70
A3o 42K3o 56Q3o 66J3o 66T3o 6593o 6583o 6673o 6563o 6453o 6343o 7333 4832s 65
A2o 43K2o 56Q2o 66J2o 66T2o 6592o 6582o 6672o 6662o 6552o 6442o 7532o 6822 49

Cells with a matchup page are links.

Compare starting hands

Against one random hand, K4s has and K4o has 52.33%: 2.56 percentage points more for K4s.

against one to eight random opponents

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0%25%50%75%100%12345678OpponentsK4s, 1 opponent: 54.88%K4s, 2 opponents: 36.58%K4s, 3 opponents: 27.56%K4s, 4 opponents: 22.34%K4s, 5 opponents: 18.89%K4s, 6 opponents: 16.63%K4s, 7 opponents: 14.76%K4s, 8 opponents: 13.40%K4o, 1 opponent: 52.33%K4o, 2 opponents: 33.24%K4o, 3 opponents: 23.58%K4o, 4 opponents: 18.31%K4o, 5 opponents: 14.62%K4o, 6 opponents: 12.44%K4o, 7 opponents: 10.56%K4o, 8 opponents: 9.10%
  • K4s: 54.88%
  • K4o: 52.33%
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Equity by number of random opponents
OpponentsK4sK4o
154.88%52.33%
236.58%33.24%
327.56%23.58%
422.34%18.31%
518.89%14.62%
616.63%12.44%
714.76%10.56%
813.40%9.10%

The one-opponent values are exact. Two to eight opponents use 100,000 seeded deals per point; small differences can be sampling noise. All opponents have random hands. These curves do not measure profit or account for position, betting or opponents folding.

K4s versus K4o: what suited changes

Against a random hand, K4s has 54.88% and K4o has 52.33%: a 2.56 percentage-point advantage for K4s. This is showdown equity, not a prediction of profit.

Exact flop probabilities for suited and offsuit starting hands
Hand
K4s10.94%0.84%
K4o2.24%0.00%

All 19,600 flops are counted. A flush draw has four cards of one suit, uses at least one hole card, and has not already made a flush or better. The flush column excludes straight flushes.

K4s on the flop

The best five-card hand K4s holds after the flop, over all 19,600 flops. Pairs on the board count.
  • High card53.0%
  • One pair40.4%
  • Two pair4.0%
  • Three of a kind1.6%
  • Flush0.8%
  • Full house0.1%
  • Four of a kind0.0%
Draws on the flop, counted only when the hand has not already made that straight or flush or better.
  • Flush draw10.9%
  • Open-ended straight draw1.3%
  • Gutshot5.1%

How to play K4s

The charts below show where this hand is worth playing.

First in

Raise from the button and the small blind; fold from under the gun, middle position and the cutoff.

Facing a raise

Fold from middle position, the cutoff, the button and the small blind; call 70% and fold 30% from the big blind.

Facing a 3-bet

Fold from every seat.

From the six-handed 100bb charts. A percentage means the chart mixes actions with this hand.

What each chart does with K4s

Six-handed cash charts at 100 big blinds. A spot marked mix plays K4s more than one way.

Where these numbers come from

Heads-up equity comes from the same preflop table the odds calculator uses, which averages each pair of hands over every board and suit pattern. Against a random hand, your own two cards make some hands less likely: holding an ace leaves three aces for the other player, so each hand counts once for every way it can still be dealt. Equity against several players is sampled with a fixed seed, so it can move by a few tenths of a point from the exact figure. The flop figures count every one of the 19,600 flops.

All 169 starting hands