KQs vs a nit's range: Equity & Strategy

King-Queen Suited (KQs) has 38.0% equity all-in preflop against a nit's range — 104 combos, 7.8% of all starting hands. It wins 36.2% of runouts outright, loses 60.2% and chops 3.6%. 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, 89 of those 104 combos are still available (15 are blocked by the cards KQs holds). KQs is ahead of 0 and behind 89.

Hardest parts of the range for KQs

Easiest parts of the range for KQs

KQs has 38.0% equity all-in preflop against a nit's range — 104 combos, 7.8% of all hands. King-Queen Suited wins the pot outright 36.2% of the time, loses 60.2% and chops 3.6%. Your own two cards remove 15 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 KQs is a favourite against: all 89 live combos are in front of it. A range-average of 38.0% here is not an average of good spots and bad ones — every spot is a bad one.

Where does the range come from? 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. Broken down hand by hand, KQs does worst against KK (13.9%), AA (17.1%) and AKs (28.6%) and best against KQs (50.0%), 77 (48.9%) and 88 (48.7%). Across the whole range KQs's equity swings from 13.9% at the bottom to 50.0% at the top — the single 38.0% headline is the combo-weighted average of all of it.

KQs vs a nit's range: 38.0%. A nit's range contains almost nothing you beat, and 38.0% is the arithmetic proof. You are priced in against a pot-sized bet (which needs about 33%).

KQs vs nit FAQ

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

KQs has 38.0% equity all-in preflop against a nit's range — it wins 36.2% of runouts outright, loses 60.2% and chops 3.6%. The range holds 104 combos (7.8% of all hands); KQs blocks 15 of them, leaving 89 live. This is exact full board enumeration, not a simulation.

Which hands in a nit's range beat KQs?

All of them — KQs is behind every one of the 89 live combos. The worst are KK (13.9%), AA (17.1%) and AKs (28.6%), and the closest it gets is KQs (50.0%), 77 (48.9%) and 88 (48.7%). 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 KQs runs at 38.0% against it rather than against a random hand.

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

Wider, almost always. KQs has 57.5% equity against a loose-passive calling range (50.5% of hands) but 29.5% 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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