--- title: "AJs vs JTs: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajs-vs-jts.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajs-vs-jts" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "AJs is a big favorite over JTs before the flop: 68.52% to 31.49% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajs-vs-a2s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajs-vs-qto.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ako-vs-jts.md"] --- # AJs vs JTs: preflop equity AJs is a big favorite over JTs before the flop: 68.52% to 31.49% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Over all 1,712,304 boards that can follow this deal, AJs finishes with 68.52% of the pot and JTs with 31.48%. ## AJs against JTs: the numbers **Exact preflop results for AJs against JTs, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AJs | 67.655 | 1.719 | 30.626 | 68.515 | | JTs | 30.626 | 1.719 | 67.655 | 31.485 | This is a contest between two suited hands, AJs and JTs. Sharing a rank is the signature of a dominated hand, since the weaker hand is usually out-kicked when the shared rank shows up. A lead of 37.04 points is large but not decisive: JTs still takes about 306 of every 1,000 deals. About 1.72% of boards chop the pot, which is why equity sits slightly above the win figure for both hands. In the ranking of all 169 starting hands, AJs is number 11 and JTs is number 45. **Boards behind the percentages: 20,547,648 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AJs | 13,902,000 | 353,000 | 6,293,000 | | JTs | 6,293,000 | 353,000 | 13,902,000 | Exact total: 12 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. **AJs against JTs read as odds** | Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AJs | 2.176 | 1.478 | 3.265 | 0.460 | | JTs | 0.460 | 3.265 | 1.478 | 2.176 | 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, AJs' equity runs from 62.26% on monotone flops up to 76.84% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower). AJs stays ahead on all five textures. **AJs against JTs by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | AJs wins | Ties | JTs wins | AJs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.138 | 66.085 | 1.597 | 32.318 | 66.883 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.771 | 76.098 | 1.492 | 22.410 | 76.844 | | Two-tone | 46.543 | 66.337 | 1.384 | 32.279 | 67.029 | | Monotone | 5.215 | 60.285 | 3.941 | 35.774 | 62.255 | | Paired | 17.333 | 71.723 | 2.216 | 26.061 | 72.831 | 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: 65.39% for AJs, 57.53% for JTs. Here the change is +3.13 and -26.05 points. **AJs and JTs 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AJs, all flops | 68.515 | 65.393 | +3.122 | 1.04774 | | AJs, rainbow, ten or higher | 66.883 | 65.393 | +1.490 | 1.02279 | | AJs, rainbow, nine or lower | 76.844 | 65.393 | +11.451 | 1.17511 | | AJs, two-tone | 67.029 | 65.393 | +1.636 | 1.02502 | | AJs, monotone | 62.255 | 65.393 | -3.138 | 0.95201 | | AJs, paired | 72.831 | 65.393 | +7.438 | 1.11374 | | JTs, all flops | 31.485 | 57.528 | -26.043 | 0.54730 | | JTs, rainbow, ten or higher | 33.117 | 57.528 | -24.411 | 0.57567 | | JTs, rainbow, nine or lower | 23.156 | 57.528 | -34.372 | 0.40252 | | JTs, two-tone | 32.971 | 57.528 | -24.557 | 0.57313 | | JTs, monotone | 37.745 | 57.528 | -19.783 | 0.65612 | | JTs, paired | 27.169 | 57.528 | -30.359 | 0.47227 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Every legal deal of AJs against JTs leaves the hands with no suit in common, so the suit split does not apply here. **AJs against JTs by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | AJs wins | Ties | JTs wins | AJs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 0 | 0.00 | not possible | not possible | not possible | not possible | | No shared suit | 12 | 100.00 | 67.655 | 1.719 | 30.626 | 68.515 | ## How often this matchup comes up AJs against JTs is made up of 12 specific-card matchups in one seat order, 0.0007% of the 1,624,350 ordered deals, and 24 counting both seat orders, 0.0015%. ## A worked example With $100 from each side, the $200 pot is split on average as $137.04 for AJs and $62.96 for JTs; the first side gains $37.04 per all-in and the second gives up $37.04. Over a long run, 1,000 deals split into about 677 for AJs, 306 for JTs and 17 tied. ## The same matchup from the other side JTs against AJs adds nothing new: it is 31.48% for JTs and 68.52% for AJs, the same figures reversed. ## Keep exploring AsJs against JhTh 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 AsJs against JhTh in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=AsJs&p2=JhTh) - [AJs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/ajs.md) - [JTs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/jts.md) - [AJs vs A2s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajs-vs-a2s.md) - [AJs vs QTo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajs-vs-qto.md) - [AKo vs JTs](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ako-vs-jts.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed We counted every case. Each suit pattern of the 12 specific AJs against JTs deals meets all 1,712,304 boards, and the better five-card hand wins; a split pot is half a win each. The flop table reads each board under all ten of its three-card flops. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [AJs vs A2s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajs-vs-a2s.md) - [AJs vs QTo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajs-vs-qto.md) - [AKo vs JTs: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ako-vs-jts.md)