--- title: "AKs vs QJs: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aks-vs-qjs.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aks-vs-qjs" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "AKs is a big favorite over QJs before the flop: 63.53% to 36.47% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aks-vs-k9s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aks-vs-a5s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/77-vs-qjs.md"] --- # AKs vs QJs: preflop equity AKs is a big favorite over QJs before the flop: 63.53% to 36.47% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Before any board card is dealt, AKs holds 63.53% equity against QJs, which leaves QJs with 36.47%. ## AKs against QJs: the numbers **Exact preflop results for AKs against QJs, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AKs | 63.266 | 0.524 | 36.210 | 63.528 | | QJs | 36.210 | 0.524 | 63.266 | 36.472 | Both hands are suited hands: AKs and QJs. 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. A split pot comes up on 0.52% of boards, so the wins and the equity differ by half of that. Among the 169 starting hands, AKs is number 8 and QJs is number 28 by strength against a random hand. **Boards behind the percentages: 27,396,864 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AKs | 17,333,000 | 144,000 | 9,920,000 | | QJs | 9,920,000 | 144,000 | 17,333,000 | Exact total: 16 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. **AKs 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AKs | 1.742 | 1.581 | 2.762 | 0.574 | | QJs | 0.574 | 2.762 | 1.581 | 1.742 | 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 The flop changes the picture. AKs does best on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower), at 73.91%, and worst on monotone flops, at 60.44%. AKs stays ahead on all five textures. **AKs against QJs by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | AKs wins | Ties | QJs wins | AKs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.138 | 60.494 | 0.068 | 39.438 | 60.528 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.771 | 73.339 | 1.142 | 25.519 | 73.910 | | Two-tone | 46.727 | 62.692 | 0.292 | 37.016 | 62.838 | | Monotone | 5.273 | 58.729 | 3.423 | 37.848 | 60.440 | | Paired | 17.091 | 65.408 | 0.600 | 33.992 | 65.708 | A rainbow flop shows three suits, a two-tone flop repeats one suit, a monotone flop is a single suit, and a paired flop repeats a rank. ## Compared with a random hand How much does the opponent matter? Compared with its random-hand 67.05%, AKs changes by -3.52 points, and QJs, from 60.26%, by -23.79. **AKs 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AKs, all flops | 63.528 | 67.045 | -3.517 | 0.94754 | | AKs, rainbow, ten or higher | 60.528 | 67.045 | -6.517 | 0.90280 | | AKs, rainbow, nine or lower | 73.910 | 67.045 | +6.865 | 1.10239 | | AKs, two-tone | 62.838 | 67.045 | -4.207 | 0.93725 | | AKs, monotone | 60.440 | 67.045 | -6.605 | 0.90148 | | AKs, paired | 65.708 | 67.045 | -1.337 | 0.98006 | | QJs, all flops | 36.472 | 60.259 | -23.787 | 0.60525 | | QJs, rainbow, ten or higher | 39.472 | 60.259 | -20.787 | 0.65504 | | QJs, rainbow, nine or lower | 26.090 | 60.259 | -34.169 | 0.43296 | | QJs, two-tone | 37.162 | 60.259 | -23.097 | 0.61670 | | QJs, monotone | 39.560 | 60.259 | -20.699 | 0.65650 | | QJs, paired | 34.292 | 60.259 | -25.967 | 0.56908 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Looking only at deals where the hands share a suit, AKs has 65.96%; looking only at deals where they do not, 62.72%. AKs does better with a shared suit, by 3.24 points. **AKs against QJs by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | AKs wins | Ties | QJs wins | AKs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 4 | 25.00 | 65.653 | 0.603 | 33.744 | 65.955 | | No shared suit | 12 | 75.00 | 62.471 | 0.497 | 37.032 | 62.719 | ## How often this matchup comes up Counting specific cards, AKs against QJs appears in 16 of the 1,624,350 ordered heads-up deals (0.0010%), and in 32 when the seats are swapped too (0.0020%). ## A worked example Put $100 each into a $200 pot and deal every board once: AKs averages $127.06 back, ahead of its $100 by $27.06, while QJs averages $72.94, short of its $100 by $27.06. Per 1,000 deals: AKs wins about 633, QJs wins about 362, and about 5 end in a split pot. ## The same matchup from the other side Read it from the other side: QJs against AKs is the same matchup with the numbers swapped, so QJs holds 36.47% and AKs holds 63.53%. That address sends you back to this page. ## Keep exploring Open the calculator with AsKs against QhJh 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 AsKs against QhJh in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=AsKs&p2=QhJh) - [AKs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/aks.md) - [QJs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/qjs.md) - [AKs vs K9s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aks-vs-k9s.md) - [AKs vs A5s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aks-vs-a5s.md) - [77 vs QJs](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/77-vs-qjs.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed Nothing here is simulated. The 16 deals of AKs against QJs fall into a few suit patterns, each dealt against all 1,712,304 boards, with both best five-card hands compared on every board. Ties give each hand half a win, and the flop rows count a board under each of its ten flops. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [AKs vs K9s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aks-vs-k9s.md) - [AKs vs A5s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aks-vs-a5s.md) - [77 vs QJs: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/77-vs-qjs.md)