--- title: "AQo vs QTs: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqo-vs-qts.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqo-vs-qts" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "AQo is a big favorite over QTs before the flop: 68.55% to 31.45% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqo-vs-a4s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqo-vs-a3s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajo-vs-qts.md"] --- # AQo vs QTs: preflop equity AQo is a big favorite over QTs before the flop: 68.55% to 31.45% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Averaged over every possible board, AQo is ahead of QTs by 37.10 points of equity, 68.55% to 31.45%. ## AQo against QTs: the numbers **Exact preflop results for AQo against QTs, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AQo | 67.826 | 1.449 | 30.725 | 68.550 | | QTs | 30.725 | 1.449 | 67.826 | 31.450 | 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. **Boards behind the percentages: 61,642,944 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AQo | 41,810,000 | 893,000 | 18,940,000 | | QTs | 18,940,000 | 893,000 | 41,810,000 | 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. **AQo against QTs 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 | 2.180 | 1.474 | 3.255 | 0.459 | | QTs | 0.459 | 3.255 | 1.474 | 2.180 | 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. **AQo against QTs by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | AQo wins | Ties | QTs wins | AQo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.177 | 65.912 | 1.292 | 32.796 | 66.558 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.771 | 79.355 | 1.124 | 19.521 | 79.917 | | Two-tone | 46.527 | 65.968 | 1.171 | 32.861 | 66.553 | | Monotone | 5.192 | 62.748 | 2.834 | 34.418 | 64.165 | | Paired | 17.333 | 71.726 | 2.135 | 26.139 | 72.793 | 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%. **AQo and QTs 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 | 68.550 | 64.432 | +4.118 | 1.06391 | | AQo, rainbow, ten or higher | 66.558 | 64.432 | +2.126 | 1.03300 | | AQo, rainbow, nine or lower | 79.917 | 64.432 | +15.485 | 1.24033 | | AQo, two-tone | 66.553 | 64.432 | +2.121 | 1.03292 | | AQo, monotone | 64.165 | 64.432 | -0.267 | 0.99586 | | AQo, paired | 72.793 | 64.432 | +8.361 | 1.12976 | | QTs, all flops | 31.450 | 59.468 | -28.018 | 0.52886 | | QTs, rainbow, ten or higher | 33.442 | 59.468 | -26.026 | 0.56235 | | QTs, rainbow, nine or lower | 20.083 | 59.468 | -39.385 | 0.33771 | | QTs, two-tone | 33.447 | 59.468 | -26.021 | 0.56244 | | QTs, monotone | 35.835 | 59.468 | -23.633 | 0.60259 | | QTs, paired | 27.207 | 59.468 | -32.261 | 0.45751 | ## 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. **AQo against QTs by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | AQo wins | Ties | QTs wins | AQo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 12 | 33.33 | 68.821 | 1.519 | 29.660 | 69.580 | | No shared suit | 24 | 66.67 | 67.328 | 1.414 | 31.258 | 68.035 | ## 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](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=AsQh&p2=QdTd) - [AQo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/aqo.md) - [QTs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/qts.md) - [AQo vs A4s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqo-vs-a4s.md) - [AQo vs A3s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqo-vs-a3s.md) - [AJo vs QTs](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajo-vs-qts.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed Nothing here is simulated. The 36 deals of AQo against QTs 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 - [AQo vs A4s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqo-vs-a4s.md) - [AQo vs A3s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqo-vs-a3s.md) - [AJo vs QTs: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajo-vs-qts.md)