--- title: "AJo vs QTo: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajo-vs-qto.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajo-vs-qto" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "AJo is a big favorite over QTo before the flop: 61.65% to 38.35% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajo-vs-44.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajo-vs-j9s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqs-vs-qto.md"] --- # AJo vs QTo: preflop equity AJo is a big favorite over QTo before the flop: 61.65% to 38.35% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Dealt all in against each other, AJo takes 61.65% of the pot on average and QTo takes the other 38.35%. ## AJo against QTo: the numbers **Exact preflop results for AJo against QTo, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AJo | 61.432 | 0.437 | 38.131 | 61.650 | | QTo | 38.131 | 0.437 | 61.432 | 38.350 | This is a contest between two offsuit hands, AJo and QTo. With no overlap in ranks, every card that pairs one hand is a card that does not pair the other. A 23.30 point lead is real, and QTo still takes about 381 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. Among the 169 starting hands, AJo is number 15 and QTo is number 47 by strength against a random hand. **Boards behind the percentages: 246,571,776 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AJo | 151,474,000 | 1,078,000 | 94,020,000 | | QTo | 94,020,000 | 1,078,000 | 151,474,000 | The board total is exact, 144 deals at 1,712,304 boards each. Won, tied and lost counts are rounded to the nearest thousand from the five-decimal percentages. **AJo against QTo read as odds** | Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AJo | 1.608 | 1.628 | 2.623 | 0.622 | | QTo | 0.622 | 2.623 | 1.628 | 1.608 | 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 Across the five flop textures AJo's equity moves by 17.33 points, from 56.62% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better to 73.95% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower). AJo stays ahead on all five textures, but the swing between them is large, so how the flop looks matters a great deal. **AJo against QTo by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | AJo wins | Ties | QTo wins | AJo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.381 | 56.562 | 0.115 | 43.323 | 56.619 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.771 | 73.471 | 0.952 | 25.577 | 73.947 | | Two-tone | 46.606 | 60.684 | 0.310 | 39.006 | 60.839 | | Monotone | 5.151 | 58.883 | 1.696 | 39.421 | 59.731 | | Paired | 17.091 | 65.428 | 0.612 | 33.960 | 65.734 | Rainbow flops have three suits, two-tone flops repeat one suit, monotone flops are all one suit, and paired flops repeat a rank. ## Compared with a random hand Each hand has a baseline against a random hand: 63.56% for AJo, 57.29% for QTo. Here the change is -1.91 and -18.94 points. **AJo and QTo 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AJo, all flops | 61.650 | 63.563 | -1.913 | 0.96990 | | AJo, rainbow, ten or higher | 56.619 | 63.563 | -6.944 | 0.89075 | | AJo, rainbow, nine or lower | 73.947 | 63.563 | +10.384 | 1.16337 | | AJo, two-tone | 60.839 | 63.563 | -2.724 | 0.95714 | | AJo, monotone | 59.731 | 63.563 | -3.832 | 0.93971 | | AJo, paired | 65.734 | 63.563 | +2.171 | 1.03416 | | QTo, all flops | 38.350 | 57.291 | -18.941 | 0.66939 | | QTo, rainbow, ten or higher | 43.381 | 57.291 | -13.910 | 0.75720 | | QTo, rainbow, nine or lower | 26.053 | 57.291 | -31.238 | 0.45475 | | QTo, two-tone | 39.161 | 57.291 | -18.130 | 0.68355 | | QTo, monotone | 40.269 | 57.291 | -17.022 | 0.70289 | | QTo, paired | 34.266 | 57.291 | -23.025 | 0.59810 | ## Does a shared suit matter? The suit split reads 61.71% for AJo with a shared suit and 61.35% without one. AJo does better with a shared suit, by 0.36 points. **AJo against QTo by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | AJo wins | Ties | QTo wins | AJo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 120 | 83.33 | 61.483 | 0.453 | 38.064 | 61.710 | | No shared suit | 24 | 16.67 | 61.173 | 0.358 | 38.469 | 61.352 | ## How often this matchup comes up How often does it happen? 144 of the 1,624,350 ordered deals (0.0089%) are AJo against QTo, and 288 (0.0177%) if either hand may sit in either seat. ## A worked example Try it with money: two players each put in $100 and the whole board runs out every possible way. AJo averages $123.30 from the $200, up $23.30; QTo averages $76.70, down $23.30. Over a long run, 1,000 deals split into about 614 for AJo, 381 for QTo and 5 tied. ## The same matchup from the other side Read it from the other side: QTo against AJo is the same matchup with the numbers swapped, so QTo holds 38.35% and AJo holds 61.65%. That address sends you back to this page. ## Keep exploring AsJh against QdTc 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 AsJh against QdTc in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=AsJh&p2=QdTc) - [AJo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/ajo.md) - [QTo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/qto.md) - [AJo vs 44](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajo-vs-44.md) - [AJo vs J9s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajo-vs-j9s.md) - [KQs vs QTo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqs-vs-qto.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed Each figure is a complete count over boards. Take the 144 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 - [AJo vs 44: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajo-vs-44.md) - [AJo vs J9s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajo-vs-j9s.md) - [KQs vs QTo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqs-vs-qto.md)