A5s
58.73%
Wins 58.50%, ties 0.47%
QJo
41.27%
Wins 41.03%, ties 0.47%
A5s against QJo: the numbers
| Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A5s | 58.498 | 0.471 | 41.031 | 58.734 |
| QJo | 41.031 | 0.471 | 58.498 | 41.266 |
A5s is a suited hand and QJo is an offsuit hand. With no overlap in ranks, every card that pairs one hand is a card that does not pair the other.
That is a modest edge, the kind that shows up over many hands and is easy to miss in one. About 0.47% of boards chop the pot, which is why equity sits slightly above the win figure for both hands.
The hand ranking puts A5s at 30 and QJo at 39 out of 169 starting hands.
| Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about |
|---|---|---|---|
| A5s | 48,080,000 | 387,000 | 33,724,000 |
| QJo | 33,724,000 | 387,000 | 48,080,000 |
The total is exact: 48 specific deals times 1,712,304 boards. The three counts are approximate, worked out from the percentages to five decimals and rounded to the nearest thousand.
| Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A5s | 1.423 | 1.709 | 2.437 | 0.703 |
| QJo | 0.703 | 2.437 | 1.709 | 1.423 |
The last column is the break-even price: the pot odds a call needs to offer, as a ratio of pot to call.
Who is ahead on which flops
By flop texture, A5s' equity runs from 50.95% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better up to 76.23% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower). A5s stays ahead on all five textures, but the swing between them is large, so how the flop looks matters a great deal.
| Flop | Share of flops | A5s wins | Ties | QJo wins | A5s equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.988 | 50.893 | 0.119 | 48.988 | 50.952 |
| Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.042 | 75.725 | 1.003 | 23.272 | 76.227 |
| Two-tone | 46.667 | 58.235 | 0.298 | 41.467 | 58.384 |
| Monotone | 5.212 | 54.477 | 2.396 | 43.127 | 55.675 |
| Paired | 17.091 | 64.018 | 0.633 | 35.349 | 64.335 |
A rainbow flop shows three suits, a two-tone flop repeats one suit, a monotone flop is a single suit, and a paired flop repeats a rank.
Compared with a random hand
A random hand would give A5s 59.92% and QJo 58.14%. Against each other the change is -1.19 points for A5s and -16.87 for QJo.
| Case | Equity here | Against a random hand | Change in points | Times the random-hand equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A5s, all flops | 58.734 | 59.923 | -1.189 | 0.98016 |
| A5s, rainbow, ten or higher | 50.952 | 59.923 | -8.971 | 0.85029 |
| A5s, rainbow, nine or lower | 76.227 | 59.923 | +16.304 | 1.27208 |
| A5s, two-tone | 58.384 | 59.923 | -1.539 | 0.97432 |
| A5s, monotone | 55.675 | 59.923 | -4.248 | 0.92911 |
| A5s, paired | 64.335 | 59.923 | +4.412 | 1.07363 |
| QJo, all flops | 41.266 | 58.135 | -16.869 | 0.70983 |
| QJo, rainbow, ten or higher | 49.048 | 58.135 | -9.087 | 0.84369 |
| QJo, rainbow, nine or lower | 23.773 | 58.135 | -34.362 | 0.40893 |
| QJo, two-tone | 41.616 | 58.135 | -16.519 | 0.71585 |
| QJo, monotone | 44.325 | 58.135 | -13.810 | 0.76245 |
| QJo, paired | 35.665 | 58.135 | -22.470 | 0.61349 |
Does a shared suit matter?
The suit split reads 58.39% for A5s with a shared suit and 59.08% without one. A5s does better with no shared suit, by 0.69 points.
| Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | A5s wins | Ties | QJo wins | A5s equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Share a suit | 24 | 50.00 | 58.132 | 0.513 | 41.355 | 58.389 |
| No shared suit | 24 | 50.00 | 58.863 | 0.430 | 40.707 | 59.078 |
How often this matchup comes up
This page stands for 48 specific-card matchups (0.0030% of 1,624,350 ordered deals), or 96 once you count the seats both ways (0.0059%).
A worked example
With $100 from each side, the $200 pot is split on average as $117.46 for A5s and $82.54 for QJo; the first side gains $17.46 per all-in and the second gives up $17.46.
Run 1,000 deals and the tally comes out near 585 for A5s, 410 for QJo and 5 ties.
The same matchup from the other side
Read it from the other side: QJo against A5s is the same matchup with the numbers swapped, so QJo holds 41.27% and A5s holds 58.73%. That address sends you back to this page.
Keep exploring
As5s against QhJd is a ready-made deal for the calculator, with no suit in common between the hands. The neighboring matchups below replace one hand with another of similar strength.
How this was computed
Nothing here is simulated. The 48 deals of A5s against QJo fall into a few suit patterns, each dealt against all 1,712,304 boards, with both best five-card hands compared on every board. Ties give each hand half a win, and the flop rows count a board under each of its ten flops.
Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used.
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