--- title: "A8s vs QJo: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a8s-vs-qjo.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a8s-vs-qjo" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "Who is ahead, A8s or QJo? A8s leads 58.91% to 41.09% before the flop, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a8s-vs-k9o.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a8s-vs-q9s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-qjo.md"] --- # A8s vs QJo: preflop equity Who is ahead, A8s or QJo? A8s leads 58.91% to 41.09% before the flop, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Dealt all in against each other, A8s takes 58.91% of the pot on average and QJo takes the other 41.09%. ## A8s against QJo: the numbers **Exact preflop results for A8s against QJo, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | A8s | 58.691 | 0.442 | 40.867 | 58.912 | | QJo | 40.867 | 0.442 | 58.691 | 41.088 | A8s and QJo are a suited hand and an offsuit hand, in that order. The two hands share no rank, which makes this a pure matchup of card strength, straight chances and flush chances. A 17.82 point lead is real, and QJo still takes about 409 of every 1,000 deals outright. Split pots make up 0.44% of the boards, and both equity figures count them as half a win each. By strength against a random hand, A8s holds place 21 of 169 and QJo holds place 39. **Boards behind the percentages: 82,190,592 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | A8s | 48,238,000 | 363,000 | 33,589,000 | | QJo | 33,589,000 | 363,000 | 48,238,000 | 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. **A8s against QJo read as odds** | Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | A8s | 1.434 | 1.704 | 2.447 | 0.697 | | QJo | 0.697 | 2.447 | 1.704 | 1.434 | 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, A8s' equity runs from 51.35% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better up to 75.79% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower). A8s stays ahead on all five textures, but the swing between them is large, so how the flop looks matters a great deal. **A8s against QJo by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | A8s wins | Ties | QJo wins | A8s equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.988 | 51.286 | 0.118 | 48.596 | 51.345 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.042 | 75.352 | 0.865 | 23.783 | 75.785 | | Two-tone | 46.667 | 58.393 | 0.265 | 41.342 | 58.525 | | Monotone | 5.212 | 54.534 | 2.366 | 43.100 | 55.717 | | Paired | 17.091 | 64.303 | 0.620 | 35.077 | 64.613 | 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 How much does the opponent matter? Compared with its random-hand 61.94%, A8s changes by -3.03 points, and QJo, from 58.14%, by -17.05. **A8s and QJo here compared with each against a random hand, in percent** | Case | Equity here | Against a random hand | Change in points | Times the random-hand equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | A8s, all flops | 58.912 | 61.944 | -3.032 | 0.95105 | | A8s, rainbow, ten or higher | 51.345 | 61.944 | -10.599 | 0.82889 | | A8s, rainbow, nine or lower | 75.785 | 61.944 | +13.841 | 1.22344 | | A8s, two-tone | 58.525 | 61.944 | -3.419 | 0.94480 | | A8s, monotone | 55.717 | 61.944 | -6.227 | 0.89947 | | A8s, paired | 64.613 | 61.944 | +2.669 | 1.04309 | | QJo, all flops | 41.088 | 58.135 | -17.047 | 0.70677 | | QJo, rainbow, ten or higher | 48.655 | 58.135 | -9.480 | 0.83693 | | QJo, rainbow, nine or lower | 24.215 | 58.135 | -33.920 | 0.41653 | | QJo, two-tone | 41.475 | 58.135 | -16.660 | 0.71343 | | QJo, monotone | 44.283 | 58.135 | -13.852 | 0.76173 | | QJo, paired | 35.387 | 58.135 | -22.748 | 0.60870 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Suit overlap shows up in the numbers. With a suit in common A8s has 58.57% equity, and with none in common it has 59.25%. A8s does better with no shared suit, by 0.68 points. **A8s against QJo by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | A8s wins | Ties | QJo wins | A8s equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 24 | 50.00 | 58.329 | 0.483 | 41.188 | 58.570 | | No shared suit | 24 | 50.00 | 59.054 | 0.401 | 40.545 | 59.254 | ## How often this matchup comes up Out of 1,624,350 ways to deal two seats two cards each, 48 are A8s in one seat and QJo in the other (0.0030%); with the seats swapped too, 96 (0.0059%). ## A worked example A $100 all-in from each player makes a $200 pot, and the exact equity says A8s gets $117.82 of it on average and QJo gets $82.18. In 1,000 deals of exactly this matchup, expect about 587 won outright by A8s, about 409 won outright by QJo and about 4 split. ## The same matchup from the other side The reversed view, QJo against A8s, shows 41.09% for QJo and 58.91% for A8s. It is the same count, so it redirects here. ## Keep exploring As8s 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. - [Open As8s against QhJd in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=As8s&p2=QhJd) - [A8s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/a8s.md) - [QJo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/qjo.md) - [A8s vs K9o](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a8s-vs-k9o.md) - [A8s vs Q9s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a8s-vs-q9s.md) - [KTs vs QJo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-qjo.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed Each figure is a complete count over boards. Take the 48 specific deals, group them by suit pattern, deal all 1,712,304 boards against each, and compare the two seven-card hands. Equity counts a tie as half a win; the flop rows use every one of a board's ten flops. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [A8s vs K9o: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a8s-vs-k9o.md) - [A8s vs Q9s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a8s-vs-q9s.md) - [KTs vs QJo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-qjo.md)