AQo vs JTo: preflop equity

Averaged over every possible board, AQo is ahead of JTo by 26.76 points of equity, 63.38% to 36.62%.

AQo

63.38%

Wins 63.17%, ties 0.44%

JTo

36.62%

Wins 36.39%, ties 0.44%

Equity counts a tie as half a win. Exact over every board.

AQo against JTo: the numbers

Exact preflop results for AQo against JTo, in percent
HandWinsTiesLosesEquity
AQo63.1650.43736.39863.384
JTo36.3980.43763.16536.616

Both hands are offsuit hands: AQo and JTo. With no overlap in ranks, every card that pairs one hand is a card that does not pair the other.

A 26.76 point lead is real, and JTo still takes about 364 of every 1,000 deals outright. Split pots make up 0.44% of the boards, and both equity figures count them as half a win each.

Among the 169 starting hands, AQo is number 14 and JTo is number 57 by strength against a random hand.

Boards behind the percentages: 246,571,776 counted in all
HandBoards won, aboutBoards tied, aboutBoards lost, about
AQo155,747,0001,078,00089,747,000
JTo89,747,0001,078,000155,747,000

Exact total: 144 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.

AQo against JTo read as odds
HandEquity as odds (to 1)Wins one deal inLoses one deal inPot odds needed to call (to 1)
AQo1.7311.5832.7470.578
JTo0.5782.7471.5831.731

The last column is the smallest pot odds, written as a pot-to-call ratio, at which a call breaks even with this equity.

Who is ahead on which flops

Split by what the flop looks like, AQo peaks at 70.25% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) and bottoms out at 60.23% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better. AQo stays ahead on all five textures.

AQo against JTo by flop texture, in percent
FlopShare of flopsAQo winsTiesJTo winsAQo equity
Rainbow, ten or higher23.38160.1720.11539.71360.229
Rainbow, nine or lower7.77169.7730.95229.27570.249
Two-tone46.60662.6170.31037.07362.772
Monotone5.15161.7661.69636.53862.614
Paired17.09166.1730.61233.21566.479

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

A random hand would give AQo 64.43% and JTo 55.25%. Against each other the change is -1.05 points for AQo and -18.63 for JTo.

AQo and JTo here compared with each against a random hand, in percent
CaseEquity hereAgainst a random handChange in pointsTimes the random-hand equity
AQo, all flops63.38464.432-1.0480.98373
AQo, rainbow, ten or higher60.22964.432-4.2030.93477
AQo, rainbow, nine or lower70.24964.432+5.8171.09028
AQo, two-tone62.77264.432-1.6600.97424
AQo, monotone62.61464.432-1.8180.97178
AQo, paired66.47964.432+2.0471.03177
JTo, all flops36.61655.248-18.6320.66276
JTo, rainbow, ten or higher39.77155.248-15.4770.71986
JTo, rainbow, nine or lower29.75155.248-25.4970.53850
JTo, two-tone37.22855.248-18.0200.67383
JTo, monotone37.38655.248-17.8620.67669
JTo, paired33.52155.248-21.7270.60674

Does a shared suit matter?

Split by suits, the deals give AQo 63.49% when the hands overlap in a suit and 62.87% when they do not. AQo does better with a shared suit, by 0.62 points.

AQo against JTo by suit overlap, in percent
DealsSpecific dealsShare of dealsAQo winsTiesJTo winsAQo equity
Share a suit12083.3363.2600.45336.28763.486
No shared suit2416.6762.6930.35836.94962.872

How often this matchup comes up

Exactly 144 specific deals fit this matchup in one seat order, which is 0.0089% of 1,624,350; both orders together give 288, or 0.0177%.

A worked example

With $100 from each side, the $200 pot is split on average as $126.76 for AQo and $73.24 for JTo; the first side gains $26.76 per all-in and the second gives up $26.76.

In 1,000 deals of exactly this matchup, expect about 632 won outright by AQo, about 364 won outright by JTo and about 4 split.

The same matchup from the other side

One page covers both views. From JTo's side the equity is 36.62%, and from AQo's side it is 63.38%.

The calculator link fills in AsQh against JdTc, 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.

How this was computed

We counted every case. Each suit pattern of the 144 specific AQo against JTo 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.

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