--- title: "AA vs QQ: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aa-vs-qq.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aa-vs-qq" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "AA is a big favorite over QQ before the flop: 81.55% to 18.45% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aa-vs-kk.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aa-vs-jj.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-qq.md"] --- # AA vs QQ: preflop equity AA is a big favorite over QQ before the flop: 81.55% to 18.45% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. In equity, AA against QQ stands at 81.55% to 18.45%, a gap of 63.10 points. ## AA against QQ: the numbers **Exact preflop results for AA against QQ, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AA | 81.330 | 0.434 | 18.236 | 81.547 | | QQ | 18.236 | 0.434 | 81.330 | 18.453 | Two pocket pairs meet here: AA against QQ. Both hands are pairs, so the bigger pair is ahead on every board that does not pair a card below it. That is a heavy lead: QQ needs the board to help it on most runouts and still falls behind far more often than not. Ties are part of the picture: 0.43% of boards end in a split pot, and each side counts that as half a win. In the ranking of all 169 starting hands, AA is number 1 and QQ is number 3. **Boards behind the percentages: 61,642,944 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AA | 50,134,000 | 268,000 | 11,241,000 | | QQ | 11,241,000 | 268,000 | 50,134,000 | 36 specific deals times 1,712,304 boards gives the exact total. The won, tied and lost counts are approximations from the five-decimal percentages, rounded to the nearest thousand. **AA against QQ 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 | 4.419 | 1.230 | 5.484 | 0.226 | | QQ | 0.226 | 5.484 | 1.230 | 4.419 | 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 Split by what the flop looks like, AA peaks at 90.84% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) and bottoms out at 75.86% on monotone flops. AA stays ahead on all five textures. **AA against QQ by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | AA wins | Ties | QQ wins | AA equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.138 | 77.828 | 0.160 | 22.012 | 77.908 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.771 | 90.173 | 1.328 | 8.499 | 90.837 | | Two-tone | 46.363 | 80.344 | 0.434 | 19.222 | 80.561 | | Monotone | 5.152 | 74.967 | 1.785 | 23.248 | 75.860 | | Paired | 17.576 | 86.494 | 0.007 | 13.499 | 86.497 | Flop types: rainbow means three different suits, two-tone means one suit twice, monotone means one suit three times, paired means a repeated rank. ## Compared with a random hand Against one random hand instead, AA holds 85.20% and QQ holds 79.93%. Facing each other changes that by -3.65 points for AA and -61.48 points for QQ. **AA and QQ 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 | 81.547 | 85.204 | -3.657 | 0.95708 | | AA, rainbow, ten or higher | 77.908 | 85.204 | -7.296 | 0.91437 | | AA, rainbow, nine or lower | 90.837 | 85.204 | +5.633 | 1.06611 | | AA, two-tone | 80.561 | 85.204 | -4.643 | 0.94551 | | AA, monotone | 75.860 | 85.204 | -9.344 | 0.89033 | | AA, paired | 86.497 | 85.204 | +1.293 | 1.01518 | | QQ, all flops | 18.453 | 79.925 | -61.472 | 0.23088 | | QQ, rainbow, ten or higher | 22.092 | 79.925 | -57.833 | 0.27641 | | QQ, rainbow, nine or lower | 9.163 | 79.925 | -70.762 | 0.11464 | | QQ, two-tone | 19.439 | 79.925 | -60.486 | 0.24322 | | QQ, monotone | 24.140 | 79.925 | -55.785 | 0.30203 | | QQ, paired | 13.503 | 79.925 | -66.422 | 0.16895 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Of the deals of this matchup, 30 share a suit (AA at 81.68%) and 6 do not (80.87%). AA does better with a shared suit, by 0.81 points. **AA against QQ by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | AA wins | Ties | QQ wins | AA equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 30 | 83.33 | 81.458 | 0.451 | 18.091 | 81.683 | | No shared suit | 6 | 16.67 | 80.688 | 0.354 | 18.958 | 80.865 | ## How often this matchup comes up Out of 1,624,350 ways to deal two seats two cards each, 36 are AA in one seat and QQ in the other (0.0022%); with the seats swapped too, 72 (0.0044%). ## A worked example With $100 from each side, the $200 pot is split on average as $163.10 for AA and $36.90 for QQ; the first side gains $63.10 per all-in and the second gives up $63.10. Out of 1,000 deals you should see around 813 outright wins for AA, 183 for QQ, and 4 split pots. ## The same matchup from the other side The reversed view, QQ against AA, shows 18.45% for QQ and 81.55% for AA. It is the same count, so it redirects here. ## Keep exploring Open the calculator with AsAh against QdQc 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 QdQc in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=AsAh&p2=QdQc) - [AA combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/aa.md) - [QQ combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/qq.md) - [AA vs KK](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aa-vs-kk.md) - [AA vs JJ](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aa-vs-jj.md) - [KK vs QQ](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-qq.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed Method: exact enumeration. The 36 specific deals are grouped by suit pattern, each is run against all 1,712,304 boards, and both seven-card hands are scored. Equity adds half of every tie, and flop textures are tallied over the ten flops inside each board. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [AA vs KK: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aa-vs-kk.md) - [AA vs JJ: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aa-vs-jj.md) - [KK vs QQ: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-qq.md)