--- title: "AJs vs QTo: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajs-vs-qto.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajs-vs-qto" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "AJs is a big favorite over QTo before the flop: 63.47% to 36.53% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajs-vs-44.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajs-vs-j9s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ako-vs-qto.md"] --- # AJs vs QTo: preflop equity AJs is a big favorite over QTo before the flop: 63.47% to 36.53% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. In equity, AJs against QTo stands at 63.47% to 36.53%, a gap of 26.94 points. ## AJs against QTo: the numbers **Exact preflop results for AJs against QTo, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AJs | 63.237 | 0.458 | 36.305 | 63.466 | | QTo | 36.305 | 0.458 | 63.237 | 36.534 | AJs and QTo are a suited hand and an offsuit hand, in that order. The two hands share no rank, which makes this a pure matchup of card strength, straight chances and flush chances. AJs is ahead, but QTo is far from dead: it takes 363 of every 1,000 deals outright. The tie share is 0.46%: on those boards the pot is chopped and neither hand wins outright. Place 11 of 169 belongs to AJs and place 47 belongs to QTo in the ranking against a random hand. **Boards behind the percentages: 82,190,592 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AJs | 51,975,000 | 376,000 | 29,839,000 | | QTo | 29,839,000 | 376,000 | 51,975,000 | 48 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. **AJs 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AJs | 1.737 | 1.581 | 2.754 | 0.576 | | QTo | 0.576 | 2.754 | 1.581 | 1.737 | 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 Low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) are the best for AJs (74.95%); rainbow flops topped by a ten or better are the worst (57.97%). 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 QTo by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | AJs wins | Ties | QTo wins | AJs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.260 | 57.909 | 0.111 | 41.980 | 57.965 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.770 | 74.493 | 0.912 | 24.595 | 74.949 | | Two-tone | 46.667 | 63.241 | 0.284 | 36.475 | 63.383 | | Monotone | 5.212 | 58.161 | 2.375 | 39.464 | 59.348 | | Paired | 17.091 | 66.908 | 0.612 | 32.480 | 67.214 | 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 Each hand has a baseline against a random hand: 65.39% for AJs, 57.29% for QTo. Here the change is -1.92 and -20.76 points. **AJs 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AJs, all flops | 63.466 | 65.393 | -1.927 | 0.97053 | | AJs, rainbow, ten or higher | 57.965 | 65.393 | -7.428 | 0.88641 | | AJs, rainbow, nine or lower | 74.949 | 65.393 | +9.556 | 1.14613 | | AJs, two-tone | 63.383 | 65.393 | -2.010 | 0.96926 | | AJs, monotone | 59.348 | 65.393 | -6.045 | 0.90756 | | AJs, paired | 67.214 | 65.393 | +1.821 | 1.02785 | | QTo, all flops | 36.534 | 57.291 | -20.757 | 0.63769 | | QTo, rainbow, ten or higher | 42.035 | 57.291 | -15.256 | 0.73371 | | QTo, rainbow, nine or lower | 25.051 | 57.291 | -32.240 | 0.43726 | | QTo, two-tone | 36.617 | 57.291 | -20.674 | 0.63914 | | QTo, monotone | 40.652 | 57.291 | -16.639 | 0.70957 | | QTo, paired | 32.786 | 57.291 | -24.505 | 0.57227 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Split by suits, the deals give AJs 63.22% when the hands overlap in a suit and 63.71% when they do not. AJs does better with no shared suit, by 0.49 points. **AJs against QTo by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | AJs wins | Ties | QTo wins | AJs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 24 | 50.00 | 62.973 | 0.498 | 36.529 | 63.222 | | No shared suit | 24 | 50.00 | 63.501 | 0.417 | 36.082 | 63.710 | ## How often this matchup comes up The class pair covers 48 combinations of specific cards in a fixed seat order, 0.0030% of 1,624,350, and 96 (0.0059%) in either order. ## A worked example Say each player puts $100 in before the flop, making a $200 pot. On average AJs takes back $126.94 of it, which is $26.94 more than it put in, and QTo takes back $73.06, $26.94 less than it put in. Per 1,000 deals: AJs wins about 632, QTo wins about 363, and about 5 end in a split pot. ## The same matchup from the other side The mirror image, QTo against AJs, is 36.53% to 63.47%, and its address redirects to this page. ## Keep exploring Try AsJs against QhTd in the calculator: the hands share no suit, and every card can be changed. The links after it are the closest matchups in the ranking. - [Open AsJs against QhTd in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=AsJs&p2=QhTd) - [AJs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/ajs.md) - [QTo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/qto.md) - [AJs vs 44](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajs-vs-44.md) - [AJs vs J9s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajs-vs-j9s.md) - [AKo vs QTo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ako-vs-qto.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 - [AJs vs 44: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajs-vs-44.md) - [AJs vs J9s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajs-vs-j9s.md) - [AKo vs QTo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ako-vs-qto.md)