--- title: "AQo vs JTs: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqo-vs-jts.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqo-vs-jts" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "Who is ahead, AQo or JTs? AQo leads 59.73% to 40.28% before the flop, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqo-vs-a2s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqo-vs-qto.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajo-vs-jts.md"] --- # AQo vs JTs: preflop equity Who is ahead, AQo or JTs? AQo leads 59.73% to 40.28% before the flop, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. If AQo and JTs get all the chips in before the flop, AQo owns 59.73% of the pot in the long run and JTs owns 40.27%. ## AQo against JTs: the numbers **Exact preflop results for AQo against JTs, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AQo | 59.497 | 0.456 | 40.047 | 59.725 | | JTs | 40.047 | 0.456 | 59.497 | 40.275 | The first hand is an offsuit hand; the second is a suited hand. Neither hand shares a rank with the other, so this is a contest of high cards, connection and suits. A 19.46 point lead is real, and JTs still takes about 400 of every 1,000 deals outright. Split pots make up 0.46% of the boards, and both equity figures count them as half a win each. Ranked by equity against a random hand, AQo is number 14 of the 169 starting hands and JTs is number 45. **Boards behind the percentages: 82,190,592 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AQo | 48,901,000 | 375,000 | 32,915,000 | | JTs | 32,915,000 | 375,000 | 48,901,000 | The total is exact: 48 specific deals times 1,712,304 boards. The three counts are approximate, worked out from the percentages to five decimals and rounded to the nearest thousand. **AQo against JTs read as odds** | Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AQo | 1.483 | 1.681 | 2.497 | 0.674 | | JTs | 0.674 | 2.497 | 1.681 | 1.483 | 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 67.55% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) and bottoms out at 58.09% on two-tone flops. AQo stays ahead on all five textures. **AQo against JTs by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | AQo wins | Ties | JTs wins | AQo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.260 | 58.422 | 0.110 | 41.468 | 58.477 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.770 | 67.091 | 0.908 | 32.001 | 67.545 | | Two-tone | 46.667 | 57.950 | 0.282 | 41.768 | 58.091 | | Monotone | 5.212 | 56.918 | 2.376 | 40.706 | 58.106 | | Paired | 17.091 | 62.518 | 0.612 | 36.870 | 62.824 | 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 Compared with a random opponent, this matchup shifts AQo from 64.43% by -4.70 points and JTs from 57.53% by -17.26 points. **AQo and JTs 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AQo, all flops | 59.725 | 64.432 | -4.707 | 0.92695 | | AQo, rainbow, ten or higher | 58.477 | 64.432 | -5.955 | 0.90758 | | AQo, rainbow, nine or lower | 67.545 | 64.432 | +3.113 | 1.04831 | | AQo, two-tone | 58.091 | 64.432 | -6.341 | 0.90159 | | AQo, monotone | 58.106 | 64.432 | -6.326 | 0.90182 | | AQo, paired | 62.824 | 64.432 | -1.608 | 0.97504 | | JTs, all flops | 40.275 | 57.528 | -17.253 | 0.70009 | | JTs, rainbow, ten or higher | 41.523 | 57.528 | -16.005 | 0.72179 | | JTs, rainbow, nine or lower | 32.455 | 57.528 | -25.073 | 0.56416 | | JTs, two-tone | 41.909 | 57.528 | -15.619 | 0.72850 | | JTs, monotone | 41.894 | 57.528 | -15.634 | 0.72824 | | JTs, paired | 37.176 | 57.528 | -20.352 | 0.64622 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Does suit overlap move the numbers? AQo has 60.38% when the hands share a suit and 59.07% when they do not. AQo does better with a shared suit, by 1.31 points. **AQo against JTs by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | AQo wins | Ties | JTs wins | AQo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 24 | 50.00 | 60.130 | 0.496 | 39.374 | 60.378 | | No shared suit | 24 | 50.00 | 58.864 | 0.416 | 40.720 | 59.072 | ## How often this matchup comes up How often does it happen? 48 of the 1,624,350 ordered deals (0.0030%) are AQo against JTs, and 96 (0.0059%) if either hand may sit in either seat. ## A worked example Try it with money: two players each put in $100 and the whole board runs out every possible way. AQo averages $119.46 from the $200, up $19.46; JTs averages $80.54, down $19.46. Per 1,000 deals: AQo wins about 595, JTs wins about 400, and about 5 end in a split pot. ## The same matchup from the other side One page covers both views. From JTs' side the equity is 40.27%, and from AQo's side it is 59.73%. ## Keep exploring Open the calculator with AsQh against JdTd 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 AsQh against JdTd in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=AsQh&p2=JdTd) - [AQo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/aqo.md) - [JTs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/jts.md) - [AQo vs A2s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqo-vs-a2s.md) - [AQo vs QTo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqo-vs-qto.md) - [AJo vs JTs](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajo-vs-jts.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed The page is built from a full enumeration: 1,712,304 boards, every suit pattern of the 48 specific deals, both seven-card hands evaluated. A tie is worth half a win to each hand, and a board is tallied under each of its ten possible flops for the texture rows. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [AQo vs A2s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqo-vs-a2s.md) - [AQo vs QTo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqo-vs-qto.md) - [AJo vs JTs: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajo-vs-jts.md)