K5s preflop: king-five suited

King-five suited has 55.8% against a random hand, the 54th 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 K5s a good hand?

K5s ranks 54th of the 169 starting hands by against a random hand, in the top 32% 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 K5s's equity against AA?

16.2% all in before the flop.

How often does K5s hit the flop?

K5s makes one pair or better on 47.0% of flops, counting pairs on the board, and two pair or better on 6.6%.

K5s against common hands

for K5s all in before the flop. The line marks 50%; linked hands have their own matchup page.
  • AA16.2%
  • KK12.0%
  • QQ31.8%
  • JJ31.8%
  • TT31.5%
  • 7733.2%
  • 2249.5%
  • AKs27.3%
  • AKo28.2%
  • AQo39.3%
  • AJo39.2%
  • KQs29.4%
  • KQo30.6%
  • JTs54.0%
  • T9s54.2%
  • 72o66.2%

K5s against every hand

Each cell is K5s's in percent against that hand, all in before the flop. Blue cells are hands K5s is ahead of, red cells hands it is behind.

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

K5s equity against each of the 169 hands, in percent
AA 16AKs 27AQs 37AJs 37ATs 36A9s 38A8s 38A7s 37A6s 37A5s 28A4s 40A3s 40A2s 40
AKo 28KK 12KQs 29KJs 30KTs 31K9s 33K8s 36K7s 39K6s 42K5s 50K4s 55K3s 55K2s 56
AQo 39KQo 31QQ 32QJs 56QTs 55Q9s 57Q8s 58Q7s 59Q6s 59Q5s 72Q4s 63Q3s 63Q2s 63
AJo 39KJo 32QJo 58JJ 32JTs 54J9s 56J8s 57J7s 58J6s 59J5s 71J4s 63J3s 63J2s 63
ATo 39KTo 32QTo 58JTo 57TT 32T9s 54T8s 56T7s 57T6s 58T5s 71T4s 62T3s 62T2s 63
A9o 40K9o 35Q9o 60J9o 58T9o 5799 3298s 5597s 5696s 5795s 7094s 6393s 6292s 63
A8o 40K8o 38Q8o 61J8o 60T8o 5898o 5888 3387s 5686s 5785s 6984s 6283s 6382s 63
A7o 40K7o 40Q7o 62J7o 61T7o 5997o 5987o 5877 3376s 5675s 6874s 6173s 6272s 63
A6o 40K6o 44Q6o 62J6o 62T6o 6196o 6086o 5976o 5866 3365s 6764s 6063s 6162s 62
A5o 29K5o 52Q5o 76J5o 76T5o 7595o 7485o 7375o 7165o 7055 3554s 6753s 6952s 70
A4o 42K4o 58Q4o 66J4o 66T4o 6594o 6684o 6574o 6464o 6354o 7144 4743s 6342s 64
A3o 43K3o 58Q3o 66J3o 66T3o 6593o 6583o 6673o 6563o 6453o 7343o 6633 4832s 65
A2o 43K2o 59Q2o 66J2o 66T2o 6592o 6682o 6672o 6662o 6552o 7442o 6732o 6822 50

Cells with a matchup page are links.

Compare starting hands

Against one random hand, K5s has and K5o has 53.31%: 2.48 percentage points more for K5s.

against one to eight random opponents

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0%25%50%75%100%12345678OpponentsK5s, 1 opponent: 55.79%K5s, 2 opponents: 37.42%K5s, 3 opponents: 28.17%K5s, 4 opponents: 22.88%K5s, 5 opponents: 19.32%K5s, 6 opponents: 16.86%K5s, 7 opponents: 14.93%K5s, 8 opponents: 13.55%K5o, 1 opponent: 53.31%K5o, 2 opponents: 33.99%K5o, 3 opponents: 24.39%K5o, 4 opponents: 18.92%K5o, 5 opponents: 15.03%K5o, 6 opponents: 12.77%K5o, 7 opponents: 10.74%K5o, 8 opponents: 9.43%
  • K5s: 55.79%
  • K5o: 53.31%
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Equity by number of random opponents
OpponentsK5sK5o
155.79%53.31%
237.42%33.99%
328.17%24.39%
422.88%18.92%
519.32%15.03%
616.86%12.77%
714.93%10.74%
813.55%9.43%

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.

K5s versus K5o: what suited changes

Against a random hand, K5s has 55.79% and K5o has 53.31%: a 2.48 percentage-point advantage for K5s. This is showdown equity, not a prediction of profit.

Exact flop probabilities for suited and offsuit starting hands
Hand
K5s10.94%0.84%
K5o2.24%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.

K5s on the flop

The best five-card hand K5s 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 draw1.6%
  • Gutshot5.8%

How to play K5s

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 80% and fold 20% 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 K5s

Six-handed cash charts at 100 big blinds. A spot marked mix plays K5s 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