--- title: "AA vs QJs: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aa-vs-qjs.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aa-vs-qjs" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "AA is a big favorite over QJs before the flop: 80.89% to 19.11% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aa-vs-k9s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aa-vs-a5s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-qjs.md"] --- # AA vs QJs: preflop equity AA is a big favorite over QJs before the flop: 80.89% to 19.11% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. If AA and QJs get all the chips in before the flop, AA owns 80.89% of the pot in the long run and QJs owns 19.11%. ## AA against QJs: the numbers **Exact preflop results for AA against QJs, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AA | 80.689 | 0.398 | 18.913 | 80.888 | | QJs | 18.913 | 0.398 | 80.689 | 19.112 | AA, a pocket pair, plays QJs, a suited hand. The pair outranks both of the other hand's cards, which is why the pair is a strong favorite. AA is a big favorite here before anyone sees a flop. Split pots make up 0.40% of the boards, and both equity figures count them as half a win each. For context, AA sits at number 1 of 169 starting hands and QJs at number 28 when each is run against a random hand. **Boards behind the percentages: 41,095,296 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AA | 33,159,000 | 164,000 | 7,772,000 | | QJs | 7,772,000 | 164,000 | 33,159,000 | Exact total: 24 deals times 1,712,304 boards. The other three counts come from the five-decimal percentages and are rounded to the nearest thousand, so read them as approximate. **AA against QJs read as odds** | Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AA | 4.232 | 1.239 | 5.287 | 0.236 | | QJs | 0.236 | 5.287 | 1.239 | 4.232 | The last column is the smallest pot odds, written as a pot-to-call ratio, at which a call breaks even with this equity. ## Who is ahead on which flops The flop changes the picture. AA does best on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower), at 91.91%, and worst on monotone flops, at 75.10%. AA stays ahead on all five textures, but the swing between them is large, so how the flop looks matters a great deal. **AA against QJs by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | AA wins | Ties | QJs wins | AA equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.138 | 79.553 | 0.106 | 20.341 | 79.606 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.771 | 91.329 | 1.155 | 7.516 | 91.906 | | Two-tone | 46.545 | 78.894 | 0.336 | 20.770 | 79.062 | | Monotone | 5.212 | 73.887 | 2.415 | 23.698 | 75.095 | | Paired | 17.334 | 84.300 | 0.007 | 15.693 | 84.303 | 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 The table below sets each hand against its own random-hand baseline: a change of -4.31 points for AA, from 85.20%, and -41.15 for QJs, from 60.26%. **AA and QJs 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AA, all flops | 80.888 | 85.204 | -4.316 | 0.94935 | | AA, rainbow, ten or higher | 79.606 | 85.204 | -5.598 | 0.93430 | | AA, rainbow, nine or lower | 91.906 | 85.204 | +6.702 | 1.07866 | | AA, two-tone | 79.062 | 85.204 | -6.142 | 0.92791 | | AA, monotone | 75.095 | 85.204 | -10.109 | 0.88136 | | AA, paired | 84.303 | 85.204 | -0.901 | 0.98943 | | QJs, all flops | 19.112 | 60.259 | -41.147 | 0.31716 | | QJs, rainbow, ten or higher | 20.394 | 60.259 | -39.865 | 0.33844 | | QJs, rainbow, nine or lower | 8.094 | 60.259 | -52.165 | 0.13432 | | QJs, two-tone | 20.938 | 60.259 | -39.321 | 0.34747 | | QJs, monotone | 24.905 | 60.259 | -35.354 | 0.41330 | | QJs, paired | 15.697 | 60.259 | -44.562 | 0.26049 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Two kinds of deal exist here. In 12 of them the hands share a suit and AA holds 81.48%. In 12 they do not, and it holds 80.30%. AA does better with a shared suit, by 1.18 points. **AA against QJs by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | AA wins | Ties | QJs wins | AA equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 12 | 50.00 | 81.256 | 0.439 | 18.305 | 81.476 | | No shared suit | 12 | 50.00 | 80.121 | 0.357 | 19.522 | 80.299 | ## How often this matchup comes up This page stands for 24 specific-card matchups (0.0015% of 1,624,350 ordered deals), or 48 once you count the seats both ways (0.0030%). ## A worked example Say each player puts $100 in before the flop, making a $200 pot. On average AA takes back $161.78 of it, which is $61.78 more than it put in, and QJs takes back $38.22, $61.78 less than it put in. Over a long run, 1,000 deals split into about 807 for AA, 189 for QJs and 4 tied. ## The same matchup from the other side Read it from the other side: QJs against AA is the same matchup with the numbers swapped, so QJs holds 19.11% and AA holds 80.89%. That address sends you back to this page. ## Keep exploring Open the calculator with AsAh against QdJd already entered, a deal with no shared suit, and change any card to try your own hand. The matchups after it each swap one hand for a nearby one in the ranking. - [Open AsAh against QdJd in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=AsAh&p2=QdJd) - [AA combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/aa.md) - [QJs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/qjs.md) - [AA vs K9s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aa-vs-k9s.md) - [AA vs A5s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aa-vs-a5s.md) - [KK vs QJs](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-qjs.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed The figures are counted, not estimated: 1,712,304 boards for every suit pattern of the 24 specific deals, with both seven-card hands compared each time. Equity gives half a win for a tie. For the flop rows, a board is counted once under each of the ten flops inside it. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [AA vs K9s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aa-vs-k9s.md) - [AA vs A5s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aa-vs-a5s.md) - [KK vs QJs: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-qjs.md)