--- title: "AJs vs QJs: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajs-vs-qjs.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajs-vs-qjs" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "AJs is a big favorite over QJs before the flop: 69.90% to 30.10% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajs-vs-k9s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajs-vs-a5s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ako-vs-qjs.md"] --- # AJs vs QJs: preflop equity AJs is a big favorite over QJs before the flop: 69.90% to 30.10% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. In equity, AJs against QJs stands at 69.90% to 30.10%, a gap of 39.80 points. ## AJs against QJs: the numbers **Exact preflop results for AJs against QJs, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AJs | 69.187 | 1.418 | 29.395 | 69.896 | | QJs | 29.395 | 1.418 | 69.187 | 30.104 | The matchup is suited hands on both sides, AJs against QJs. Sharing a rank is the signature of a dominated hand, since the weaker hand is usually out-kicked when the shared rank shows up. AJs is the clear favorite, though QJs gets there on roughly one board in 3. A split pot comes up on 1.42% of boards, so the wins and the equity differ by half of that. The hand ranking puts AJs at 11 and QJs at 28 out of 169 starting hands. **Boards behind the percentages: 20,547,648 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AJs | 14,216,000 | 291,000 | 6,040,000 | | QJs | 6,040,000 | 291,000 | 14,216,000 | The board total is exact, 12 deals at 1,712,304 boards each. Won, tied and lost counts are rounded to the nearest thousand from the five-decimal percentages. **AJs 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AJs | 2.322 | 1.445 | 3.402 | 0.431 | | QJs | 0.431 | 3.402 | 1.445 | 2.322 | 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 Across the five flop textures AJs' equity moves by 18.81 points, from 63.17% on monotone flops to 81.98% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower). AJs stays ahead on all five textures, but the swing between them is large, so how the flop looks matters a great deal. **AJs against QJs by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | AJs wins | Ties | QJs wins | AJs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.138 | 66.864 | 1.203 | 31.933 | 67.466 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.771 | 81.356 | 1.249 | 17.395 | 81.981 | | Two-tone | 46.543 | 67.943 | 1.068 | 30.989 | 68.477 | | Monotone | 5.215 | 61.318 | 3.702 | 34.980 | 63.169 | | Paired | 17.333 | 72.541 | 2.035 | 25.424 | 73.558 | 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 The table below sets each hand against its own random-hand baseline: a change of +4.51 points for AJs, from 65.39%, and -30.16 for QJs, from 60.26%. **AJs 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AJs, all flops | 69.896 | 65.393 | +4.503 | 1.06886 | | AJs, rainbow, ten or higher | 67.466 | 65.393 | +2.073 | 1.03170 | | AJs, rainbow, nine or lower | 81.981 | 65.393 | +16.588 | 1.25367 | | AJs, two-tone | 68.477 | 65.393 | +3.084 | 1.04716 | | AJs, monotone | 63.169 | 65.393 | -2.224 | 0.96599 | | AJs, paired | 73.558 | 65.393 | +8.165 | 1.12486 | | QJs, all flops | 30.104 | 60.259 | -30.155 | 0.49958 | | QJs, rainbow, ten or higher | 32.534 | 60.259 | -27.725 | 0.53990 | | QJs, rainbow, nine or lower | 18.019 | 60.259 | -42.240 | 0.29903 | | QJs, two-tone | 31.523 | 60.259 | -28.736 | 0.52313 | | QJs, monotone | 36.831 | 60.259 | -23.428 | 0.61121 | | QJs, paired | 26.442 | 60.259 | -33.817 | 0.43881 | ## Does a shared suit matter? AJs and QJs never overlap in suit in a legal deal, so the whole matchup sits in the no-shared-suit row. **AJs against QJs by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | AJs wins | Ties | QJs wins | AJs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 0 | 0.00 | not possible | not possible | not possible | not possible | | No shared suit | 12 | 100.00 | 69.187 | 1.418 | 29.395 | 69.896 | ## How often this matchup comes up This page stands for 12 specific-card matchups (0.0007% of 1,624,350 ordered deals), or 24 once you count the seats both ways (0.0015%). ## A worked example Put $100 each into a $200 pot and deal every board once: AJs averages $139.80 back, ahead of its $100 by $39.80, while QJs averages $60.20, short of its $100 by $39.80. Over a long run, 1,000 deals split into about 692 for AJs, 294 for QJs and 14 tied. ## The same matchup from the other side Read it from the other side: QJs against AJs is the same matchup with the numbers swapped, so QJs holds 30.10% and AJs holds 69.90%. That address sends you back to this page. ## Keep exploring The calculator link fills in AsJs against QhJh, 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 AsJs against QhJh in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=AsJs&p2=QhJh) - [AJs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/ajs.md) - [QJs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/qjs.md) - [AJs vs K9s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajs-vs-k9s.md) - [AJs vs A5s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajs-vs-a5s.md) - [AKo vs QJs](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ako-vs-qjs.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 QJs 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 K9s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajs-vs-k9s.md) - [AJs vs A5s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajs-vs-a5s.md) - [AKo vs QJs: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ako-vs-qjs.md)