--- title: "AQs vs JTs: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-jts.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-jts" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "AQs is a big favorite over JTs before the flop: 62.20% to 37.80% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-a2s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-qto.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajs-vs-jts.md"] --- # AQs vs JTs: preflop equity AQs is a big favorite over JTs before the flop: 62.20% to 37.80% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Counting every board, the equity split is 62.20% for AQs and 37.80% for JTs, so AQs leads by 24.40 points. ## AQs against JTs: the numbers **Exact preflop results for AQs against JTs, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AQs | 61.952 | 0.500 | 37.548 | 62.202 | | JTs | 37.548 | 0.500 | 61.952 | 37.798 | AQs and JTs are both suited hands. With no overlap in ranks, every card that pairs one hand is a card that does not pair the other. That is a modest edge, the kind that shows up over many hands and is easy to miss in one. A split pot comes up on 0.50% of boards, so the wins and the equity differ by half of that. AQs ranks number 10 of 169 starting hands, and JTs ranks number 45, by equity against a random hand. **Boards behind the percentages: 27,396,864 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AQs | 16,973,000 | 137,000 | 10,287,000 | | JTs | 10,287,000 | 137,000 | 16,973,000 | 16 specific deals times 1,712,304 boards gives the exact total. The won, tied and lost counts are approximations from the five-decimal percentages, rounded to the nearest thousand. **AQs 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AQs | 1.646 | 1.614 | 2.663 | 0.608 | | JTs | 0.608 | 2.663 | 1.614 | 1.646 | 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 The flop changes the picture. AQs does best on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower), at 69.18%, and worst on monotone flops, at 59.32%. AQs stays ahead on all five textures. **AQs against JTs by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | AQs wins | Ties | JTs wins | AQs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.138 | 59.967 | 0.106 | 39.927 | 60.020 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.771 | 68.745 | 0.877 | 30.378 | 69.184 | | Two-tone | 46.727 | 61.294 | 0.263 | 38.443 | 61.426 | | Monotone | 5.273 | 57.616 | 3.410 | 38.974 | 59.321 | | Paired | 17.091 | 64.689 | 0.612 | 34.699 | 64.995 | 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 Relative to a random opponent, AQs changes by -4.01 points (baseline 66.21%) and JTs by -19.73 points (baseline 57.53%). **AQs 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AQs, all flops | 62.202 | 66.209 | -4.007 | 0.93948 | | AQs, rainbow, ten or higher | 60.020 | 66.209 | -6.189 | 0.90652 | | AQs, rainbow, nine or lower | 69.184 | 66.209 | +2.975 | 1.04493 | | AQs, two-tone | 61.426 | 66.209 | -4.783 | 0.92776 | | AQs, monotone | 59.321 | 66.209 | -6.888 | 0.89597 | | AQs, paired | 64.995 | 66.209 | -1.214 | 0.98166 | | JTs, all flops | 37.798 | 57.528 | -19.730 | 0.65704 | | JTs, rainbow, ten or higher | 39.980 | 57.528 | -17.548 | 0.69497 | | JTs, rainbow, nine or lower | 30.816 | 57.528 | -26.712 | 0.53567 | | JTs, two-tone | 38.574 | 57.528 | -18.954 | 0.67053 | | JTs, monotone | 40.679 | 57.528 | -16.849 | 0.70712 | | JTs, paired | 35.005 | 57.528 | -22.523 | 0.60849 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Suit overlap shows up in the numbers. With a suit in common AQs has 64.51% equity, and with none in common it has 61.44%. AQs does better with a shared suit, by 3.07 points. **AQs against JTs by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | AQs wins | Ties | JTs wins | AQs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 4 | 25.00 | 64.216 | 0.577 | 35.207 | 64.505 | | No shared suit | 12 | 75.00 | 61.197 | 0.475 | 38.328 | 61.435 | ## How often this matchup comes up This page stands for 16 specific-card matchups (0.0010% of 1,624,350 ordered deals), or 32 once you count the seats both ways (0.0020%). ## A worked example Try it with money: two players each put in $100 and the whole board runs out every possible way. AQs averages $124.40 from the $200, up $24.40; JTs averages $75.60, down $24.40. In 1,000 deals of exactly this matchup, expect about 620 won outright by AQs, about 375 won outright by JTs and about 5 split. ## The same matchup from the other side If you came looking for JTs against AQs, the numbers are the same with the hands swapped: 37.80% and 62.20%. ## Keep exploring Open the calculator with AsQs against JhTh 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 AsQs against JhTh in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=AsQs&p2=JhTh) - [AQs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/aqs.md) - [JTs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/jts.md) - [AQs vs A2s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-a2s.md) - [AQs vs QTo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-qto.md) - [AJs vs JTs](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajs-vs-jts.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed We counted every case. Each suit pattern of the 16 specific AQs against JTs 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. ## Related - [AQs vs A2s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-a2s.md) - [AQs vs QTo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-qto.md) - [AJs vs JTs: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajs-vs-jts.md)