KQ vs a nit's range: Equity & Strategy

King-Queen (KQ) has 35.3% equity all-in preflop against a nit's range — 104 combos, 7.8% of all starting hands. It wins 33.8% of runouts outright, loses 63.2% and chops 2.9%. These are exact figures from full board enumeration against every unblocked combo in the range, not a simulation.

The range this is computed against

The rock at the table: 77+, ATs+, KQs and AJo+, a shade under 8% of hands. A nit almost never has a marginal holding — when they put money in voluntarily, the range is close to this and their bluff frequency is close to zero.

nit — 104 combos, 7.8% of all starting hands: AA, KK, QQ, JJ, TT, 99, 88, 77, AKs, AQs, AJs, ATs, KQs, AKo, AQo, AJo

After card removal, 88 of those 104 combos are still available (16 are blocked by the cards KQ holds). KQ is ahead of 0 and behind 88.

Hardest parts of the range for KQ

Easiest parts of the range for KQ

KQ has 35.3% equity all-in preflop against a nit's range — 104 combos, 7.8% of all hands. King-Queen wins the pot outright 33.8% of the time, loses 63.2% and chops 2.9%. Your own two cards remove 16 of those combos before the flop is even dealt — a blocker effect this number already accounts for, because every combo containing one of your exact cards is stripped out of the range first. There is not one combo in the range that KQ is a favourite against: all 88 live combos are in front of it. A range-average of 35.3% here is not an average of good spots and bad ones — every spot is a bad one.

The range behind this number is not a guess. The rock at the table: 77+, ATs+, KQs and AJo+, a shade under 8% of hands. A nit almost never has a marginal holding — when they put money in voluntarily, the range is close to this and their bluff frequency is close to zero. KQ's worst spots in it are KK (10.0%), AA (13.9%) and AKs (25.4%) — and its best are KQs (48.1%), 77 (46.9%) and 88 (46.8%). Across the whole range KQ's equity swings from 10.0% at the bottom to 48.1% at the top — the single 35.3% headline is the combo-weighted average of all of it.

Against a nit, the range is the whole story: 7.8% of hands, no bluffs, and KQ at 35.3%. 35.3% against a range with no bluffs in it means folding is not weak, it is correct. The classic leak is paying off a rock with a hand that is "too good to fold".

KQ vs nit FAQ

What is KQ's equity against a nit's range?

KQ has 35.3% equity all-in preflop against a nit's range — it wins 33.8% of runouts outright, loses 63.2% and chops 2.9%. The range holds 104 combos (7.8% of all hands); KQ blocks 16 of them, leaving 88 live. This is exact full board enumeration, not a simulation.

Which hands in a nit's range beat KQ?

All of them — KQ is behind every one of the 88 live combos. The worst are KK (10.0%), AA (13.9%) and AKs (25.4%), and the closest it gets is KQs (48.1%), 77 (46.9%) and 88 (46.8%). Every figure is exact, computed against that hand's unblocked combos only.

What hands are in a nit's range?

16 hand classes and 104 combos — 7.8% of the 1,326 possible starting hands. By combo count it is 46% pocket pairs (8 pairs, 48 combos), 19% suited hands (5 classes, 20 combos) and 35% offsuit hands (3 classes, 36 combos). That shape is why KQ runs at 35.3% against it rather than against a random hand.

Does KQ do better against a wider or a tighter range?

Wider, almost always. KQ has 55.8% equity against a loose-passive calling range (50.5% of hands) but 26.5% against a 4-betting range (3.2%). Equity against a range is mostly a question of how many weak hands the range still contains — which is why the same holding can be a monster against a button open and a fold against a 4-bet.

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