--- title: "AJo vs QTs: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajo-vs-qts.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajo-vs-qts" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "Who is ahead, AJo or QTs? AJo leads 58.05% to 41.95% before the flop, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajo-vs-a4s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajo-vs-a3s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqs-vs-qts.md"] --- # AJo vs QTs: preflop equity Who is ahead, AJo or QTs? AJo leads 58.05% to 41.95% before the flop, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. In equity, AJo against QTs stands at 58.05% to 41.95%, a gap of 16.10 points. ## AJo against QTs: the numbers **Exact preflop results for AJo against QTs, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AJo | 57.819 | 0.456 | 41.725 | 58.047 | | QTs | 41.725 | 0.456 | 57.819 | 41.953 | The matchup pits an offsuit hand against a suited hand. Neither hand shares a rank with the other, so this is a contest of high cards, connection and suits. That is a modest edge, the kind that shows up over many hands and is easy to miss in one. Ties are 0.46% of the outcomes here; each tied board gives both hands half the pot. Ranked by equity against a random hand, AJo is number 15 of the 169 starting hands and QTs is number 34. **Boards behind the percentages: 82,190,592 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AJo | 47,522,000 | 375,000 | 34,294,000 | | QTs | 34,294,000 | 375,000 | 47,522,000 | 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. **AJo against QTs 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 | 1.384 | 1.730 | 2.397 | 0.723 | | QTs | 0.723 | 2.397 | 1.730 | 1.384 | In the last column, a pot-to-call ratio at or above the figure makes a call break even or better at this equity. ## Who is ahead on which flops Across the five flop textures AJo's equity moves by 16.15 points, from 54.92% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better to 71.07% 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 QTs by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | AJo wins | Ties | QTs wins | AJo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.260 | 54.869 | 0.110 | 45.021 | 54.924 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.770 | 70.620 | 0.908 | 28.472 | 71.074 | | Two-tone | 46.667 | 56.085 | 0.282 | 43.633 | 56.226 | | Monotone | 5.212 | 54.481 | 2.375 | 43.144 | 55.668 | | Paired | 17.091 | 61.769 | 0.612 | 37.619 | 62.075 | Read the flop types this way: rainbow has three suits, two-tone has two cards of one suit, monotone has three, and paired repeats a rank. ## Compared with a random hand Start from the random-hand figures, 63.56% for AJo and 59.47% for QTs. This opponent changes them by -5.51 and -17.52 points. **AJo and QTs 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 | 58.047 | 63.563 | -5.516 | 0.91322 | | AJo, rainbow, ten or higher | 54.924 | 63.563 | -8.639 | 0.86409 | | AJo, rainbow, nine or lower | 71.074 | 63.563 | +7.511 | 1.11817 | | AJo, two-tone | 56.226 | 63.563 | -7.337 | 0.88457 | | AJo, monotone | 55.668 | 63.563 | -7.895 | 0.87579 | | AJo, paired | 62.075 | 63.563 | -1.488 | 0.97659 | | QTs, all flops | 41.953 | 59.468 | -17.515 | 0.70547 | | QTs, rainbow, ten or higher | 45.076 | 59.468 | -14.392 | 0.75799 | | QTs, rainbow, nine or lower | 28.926 | 59.468 | -30.542 | 0.48641 | | QTs, two-tone | 43.774 | 59.468 | -15.694 | 0.73609 | | QTs, monotone | 44.332 | 59.468 | -15.136 | 0.74548 | | QTs, paired | 37.925 | 59.468 | -21.543 | 0.63774 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Looking only at deals where the hands share a suit, AJo has 58.55%; looking only at deals where they do not, 57.55%. AJo does better with a shared suit, by 1.00 points. **AJo against QTs by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | AJo wins | Ties | QTs wins | AJo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 24 | 50.00 | 58.300 | 0.496 | 41.204 | 58.548 | | No shared suit | 24 | 50.00 | 57.339 | 0.416 | 42.245 | 57.547 | ## How often this matchup comes up AJo against QTs is made up of 48 specific-card matchups in one seat order, 0.0030% of the 1,624,350 ordered deals, and 96 counting both seat orders, 0.0059%. ## A worked example A $100 all-in from each player makes a $200 pot, and the exact equity says AJo gets $116.10 of it on average and QTs gets $83.90. In 1,000 deals of exactly this matchup, expect about 578 won outright by AJo, about 417 won outright by QTs and about 5 split. ## The same matchup from the other side QTs versus AJo is this same page seen from the other hand: 41.95% for QTs, 58.05% for AJo. ## Keep exploring The calculator link fills in AsJh against QdTd, a deal where the two hands share no suit. Change any card to test your own hand. The neighboring matchups below swap one of the two hands for one of similar strength. - [Open AsJh against QdTd in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=AsJh&p2=QdTd) - [AJo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/ajo.md) - [QTs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/qts.md) - [AJo vs A4s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajo-vs-a4s.md) - [AJo vs A3s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajo-vs-a3s.md) - [KQs vs QTs](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqs-vs-qts.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 48 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 - [AJo vs A4s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajo-vs-a4s.md) - [AJo vs A3s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajo-vs-a3s.md) - [KQs vs QTs: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqs-vs-qts.md)