--- title: "AKo vs QJs: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ako-vs-qjs.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ako-vs-qjs" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "AKo is a big favorite over QJs before the flop: 61.07% to 38.93% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ako-vs-k9s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ako-vs-a5s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ats-vs-qjs.md"] --- # AKo vs QJs: preflop equity AKo is a big favorite over QJs before the flop: 61.07% to 38.93% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. The exact count puts AKo at 61.07% and QJs at 38.93% when the two hands see all five board cards. ## AKo against QJs: the numbers **Exact preflop results for AKo against QJs, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AKo | 60.829 | 0.482 | 38.689 | 61.070 | | QJs | 38.689 | 0.482 | 60.829 | 38.930 | AKo, an offsuit hand, plays QJs, a suited hand. The two hands share no rank, which makes this a pure matchup of card strength, straight chances and flush chances. AKo is ahead, but QJs is far from dead: it takes 387 of every 1,000 deals outright. A split pot comes up on 0.48% of boards, so the wins and the equity differ by half of that. Ranked by equity against a random hand, AKo is number 12 of the 169 starting hands and QJs is number 28. **Boards behind the percentages: 82,190,592 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AKo | 49,996,000 | 396,000 | 31,799,000 | | QJs | 31,799,000 | 396,000 | 49,996,000 | Exact total: 48 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. **AKo 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AKo | 1.569 | 1.644 | 2.585 | 0.637 | | QJs | 0.637 | 2.585 | 1.644 | 1.569 | 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 AKo prefers low rainbow flops (nine high or lower), where it holds 72.35%, and likes rainbow flops topped by a ten or better least, where it holds 59.00%. AKo stays ahead on all five textures. **AKo against QJs by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | AKo wins | Ties | QJs wins | AKo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.260 | 58.964 | 0.071 | 40.965 | 59.000 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.770 | 71.761 | 1.183 | 27.056 | 72.353 | | Two-tone | 46.667 | 59.372 | 0.314 | 40.314 | 59.529 | | Monotone | 5.212 | 57.971 | 2.394 | 39.635 | 59.168 | | Paired | 17.091 | 63.247 | 0.600 | 36.153 | 63.547 | 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 How much does the opponent matter? Compared with its random-hand 65.32%, AKo changes by -4.25 points, and QJs, from 60.26%, by -21.33. **AKo 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AKo, all flops | 61.070 | 65.320 | -4.250 | 0.93494 | | AKo, rainbow, ten or higher | 59.000 | 65.320 | -6.320 | 0.90325 | | AKo, rainbow, nine or lower | 72.353 | 65.320 | +7.033 | 1.10767 | | AKo, two-tone | 59.529 | 65.320 | -5.791 | 0.91134 | | AKo, monotone | 59.168 | 65.320 | -6.152 | 0.90582 | | AKo, paired | 63.547 | 65.320 | -1.773 | 0.97286 | | QJs, all flops | 38.930 | 60.259 | -21.329 | 0.64604 | | QJs, rainbow, ten or higher | 41.000 | 60.259 | -19.259 | 0.68040 | | QJs, rainbow, nine or lower | 27.647 | 60.259 | -32.612 | 0.45880 | | QJs, two-tone | 40.471 | 60.259 | -19.788 | 0.67162 | | QJs, monotone | 40.832 | 60.259 | -19.427 | 0.67761 | | QJs, paired | 36.453 | 60.259 | -23.806 | 0.60494 | ## Does a shared suit matter? The suit split reads 61.77% for AKo with a shared suit and 60.38% without one. AKo does better with a shared suit, by 1.39 points. **AKo against QJs by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | AKo wins | Ties | QJs wins | AKo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 24 | 50.00 | 61.504 | 0.523 | 37.973 | 61.766 | | No shared suit | 24 | 50.00 | 60.154 | 0.442 | 39.404 | 60.375 | ## How often this matchup comes up Exactly 48 specific deals fit this matchup in one seat order, which is 0.0030% of 1,624,350; both orders together give 96, or 0.0059%. ## A worked example Try it with money: two players each put in $100 and the whole board runs out every possible way. AKo averages $122.14 from the $200, up $22.14; QJs averages $77.86, down $22.14. A thousand deals look like this: AKo takes 608, QJs takes 387, 5 are ties. ## The same matchup from the other side If you came looking for QJs against AKo, the numbers are the same with the hands swapped: 38.93% and 61.07%. ## Keep exploring Open the calculator with AsKh against QdJd already entered, a deal with no shared suit, and change any card to try your own hand. The matchups after it each swap one hand for a nearby one in the ranking. - [Open AsKh against QdJd in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=AsKh&p2=QdJd) - [AKo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/ako.md) - [QJs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/qjs.md) - [AKo vs K9s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ako-vs-k9s.md) - [AKo vs A5s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ako-vs-a5s.md) - [ATs vs QJs](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ats-vs-qjs.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed All 1,712,304 five-card boards are dealt for every suit pattern among the 48 specific deals of AKo against QJs, and both hands are scored on each. That is a full count, so the percentages are exact. Ties are half a win each, and each board appears once per flop it contains. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [AKo vs K9s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ako-vs-k9s.md) - [AKo vs A5s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ako-vs-a5s.md) - [ATs vs QJs: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ats-vs-qjs.md)