--- title: "AQo vs QJo: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqo-vs-qjo.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqo-vs-qjo" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "AQo is a big favorite over QJo before the flop: 73.06% to 26.94% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqo-vs-k9o.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqo-vs-q9s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajo-vs-qjo.md"] --- # AQo vs QJo: preflop equity AQo is a big favorite over QJo before the flop: 73.06% to 26.94% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Before any board card is dealt, AQo holds 73.06% equity against QJo, which leaves QJo with 26.94%. ## AQo against QJo: the numbers **Exact preflop results for AQo against QJo, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AQo | 72.324 | 1.472 | 26.204 | 73.060 | | QJo | 26.204 | 1.472 | 72.324 | 26.940 | Each side holds one of the offsuit hands: AQo and QJo. The two hands share a rank, and the one with the better other card dominates: it wins most kicker battles when that shared rank hits. AQo is well ahead, and QJo needs a specific kind of board to catch up. Split pots make up 1.47% of the boards, and both equity figures count them as half a win each. In the ranking of all 169 starting hands, AQo is number 14 and QJo is number 39. **Boards behind the percentages: 184,928,832 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AQo | 133,748,000 | 2,722,000 | 48,459,000 | | QJo | 48,459,000 | 2,722,000 | 133,748,000 | Exact total: 108 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 QJo 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 | 2.712 | 1.383 | 3.816 | 0.369 | | QJo | 0.369 | 3.816 | 1.383 | 2.712 | In the last column, a pot-to-call ratio at or above the figure makes a call break even or better at this equity. ## Who is ahead on which flops By flop texture, AQo's equity runs from 68.66% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better up to 84.40% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower). AQo stays ahead on all five textures, but the swing between them is large, so how the flop looks matters a great deal. **AQo against QJo by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | AQo wins | Ties | QJo wins | AQo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.275 | 68.019 | 1.278 | 30.703 | 68.658 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.771 | 83.716 | 1.371 | 14.913 | 84.401 | | Two-tone | 46.477 | 71.643 | 1.253 | 27.104 | 72.269 | | Monotone | 5.144 | 68.296 | 2.252 | 29.452 | 69.422 | | Paired | 17.333 | 76.020 | 2.132 | 21.848 | 77.086 | 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 Each hand has a baseline against a random hand: 64.43% for AQo, 58.14% for QJo. Here the change is +8.63 and -31.20 points. **AQo and QJo 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 | 73.060 | 64.432 | +8.628 | 1.13391 | | AQo, rainbow, ten or higher | 68.658 | 64.432 | +4.226 | 1.06559 | | AQo, rainbow, nine or lower | 84.401 | 64.432 | +19.969 | 1.30992 | | AQo, two-tone | 72.269 | 64.432 | +7.837 | 1.12163 | | AQo, monotone | 69.422 | 64.432 | +4.990 | 1.07745 | | AQo, paired | 77.086 | 64.432 | +12.654 | 1.19639 | | QJo, all flops | 26.940 | 58.135 | -31.195 | 0.46340 | | QJo, rainbow, ten or higher | 31.342 | 58.135 | -26.793 | 0.53912 | | QJo, rainbow, nine or lower | 15.599 | 58.135 | -42.536 | 0.26832 | | QJo, two-tone | 27.731 | 58.135 | -30.404 | 0.47701 | | QJo, monotone | 30.578 | 58.135 | -27.557 | 0.52598 | | QJo, paired | 22.914 | 58.135 | -35.221 | 0.39415 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Does suit overlap move the numbers? AQo has 73.23% when the hands share a suit and 72.48% when they do not. AQo does better with a shared suit, by 0.75 points. **AQo against QJo by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | AQo wins | Ties | QJo wins | AQo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 84 | 77.78 | 72.479 | 1.495 | 26.026 | 73.226 | | No shared suit | 24 | 22.22 | 71.782 | 1.390 | 26.828 | 72.477 | ## How often this matchup comes up Out of 1,624,350 ways to deal two seats two cards each, 108 are AQo in one seat and QJo in the other (0.0066%); with the seats swapped too, 216 (0.0133%). ## A worked example Try it with money: two players each put in $100 and the whole board runs out every possible way. AQo averages $146.12 from the $200, up $46.12; QJo averages $53.88, down $46.12. A thousand deals look like this: AQo takes 723, QJo takes 262, 15 are ties. ## The same matchup from the other side Swap the hands and you get QJo with 26.94% against AQo with 73.06%. We keep one page per matchup, with the better-ranked hand first. ## Keep exploring Open the calculator with AsQh against QdJc 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 QdJc in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=AsQh&p2=QdJc) - [AQo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/aqo.md) - [QJo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/qjo.md) - [AQo vs K9o](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqo-vs-k9o.md) - [AQo vs Q9s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqo-vs-q9s.md) - [AJo vs QJo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajo-vs-qjo.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 108 specific deals of AQo against QJo, 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 - [AQo vs K9o: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqo-vs-k9o.md) - [AQo vs Q9s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqo-vs-q9s.md) - [AJo vs QJo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajo-vs-qjo.md)