AQo vs QTs: preflop equity

AQo against QTs: the numbers

The first hand is an offsuit hand; the second is a suited hand. 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 the clear favorite, though QTs gets there on roughly one board in 3. Ties are 1.45% of the outcomes here; each tied board gives both hands half the pot.

For context, AQo sits at number 14 of 169 starting hands and QTs at number 34 when each is run against a random hand.

The board total is exact, 36 deals at 1,712,304 boards each. Won, tied and lost counts are rounded to the nearest thousand from the five-decimal percentages.

The final column gives the least the pot must offer for each unit called for a call to break even at this equity.

Who is ahead on which flops

By flop texture, AQo's equity runs from 64.17% on monotone flops up to 79.92% 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.

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

The table below sets each hand against its own random-hand baseline: a change of +4.12 points for AQo, from 64.43%, and -28.02 for QTs, from 59.47%.

Does a shared suit matter?

The suit split reads 69.58% for AQo with a shared suit and 68.04% without one. AQo does better with a shared suit, by 1.54 points.

How often this matchup comes up

You will meet this exact matchup 0.0044% of the time in a random heads-up deal: 72 of 1,624,350, counting either seat order.

A worked example

Try it with money: two players each put in $100 and the whole board runs out every possible way. AQo averages $137.10 from the $200, up $37.10; QTs averages $62.90, down $37.10.

Over a long run, 1,000 deals split into about 678 for AQo, 307 for QTs and 15 tied.

The same matchup from the other side

Read it from the other side: QTs against AQo is the same matchup with the numbers swapped, so QTs holds 31.45% and AQo holds 68.55%. That address sends you back to this page.

Keep exploring

AsQh against QdTd is a ready-made deal for the calculator, with no suit in common between the hands. The neighboring matchups below replace one hand with another of similar strength.

• Open AsQh against QdTd in the equity calculator
• AQo combos
• QTs combos
• AQo vs A4s
• AQo vs A3s
• AJo vs QTs
• All hand matchups