--- title: "AQs vs QTs: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-qts.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-qts" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "AQs is a big favorite over QTs before the flop: 69.71% to 30.30% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-a4s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-a3s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajs-vs-qts.md"] --- # AQs vs QTs: preflop equity AQs is a big favorite over QTs before the flop: 69.71% to 30.30% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Averaged over every possible board, AQs is ahead of QTs by 39.42 points of equity, 69.71% to 30.29%. ## AQs against QTs: the numbers **Exact preflop results for AQs against QTs, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AQs | 68.989 | 1.431 | 29.580 | 69.705 | | QTs | 29.580 | 1.431 | 68.989 | 30.295 | Here suited hands face each other, AQs on one side and QTs on the other. Sharing a rank is the signature of a dominated hand, since the weaker hand is usually out-kicked when the shared rank shows up. AQs is the clear favorite, though QTs gets there on roughly one board in 3. Ties are part of the picture: 1.43% of boards end in a split pot, and each side counts that as half a win. By strength against a random hand, AQs holds place 10 of 169 and QTs holds place 34. **Boards behind the percentages: 20,547,648 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AQs | 14,176,000 | 294,000 | 6,078,000 | | QTs | 6,078,000 | 294,000 | 14,176,000 | 12 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 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AQs | 2.301 | 1.450 | 3.381 | 0.435 | | QTs | 0.435 | 3.381 | 1.450 | 2.301 | 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 Break the boards down by their first three cards and AQs is strongest on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) (80.58%) and weakest on monotone flops (63.06%). AQs stays ahead on all five textures, but the swing between them is large, so how the flop looks matters a great deal. **AQs against QTs by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | AQs wins | Ties | QTs wins | AQs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.138 | 66.888 | 1.253 | 31.859 | 67.515 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.771 | 80.047 | 1.069 | 18.884 | 80.581 | | Two-tone | 46.543 | 67.701 | 1.066 | 31.233 | 68.234 | | Monotone | 5.215 | 61.207 | 3.710 | 35.083 | 63.062 | | Paired | 17.333 | 72.637 | 2.123 | 25.240 | 73.699 | Flop types: rainbow means three different suits, two-tone means one suit twice, monotone means one suit three times, paired means a repeated rank. ## Compared with a random hand Against one random hand instead, AQs holds 66.21% and QTs holds 59.47%. Facing each other changes that by +3.50 points for AQs and -29.18 points for QTs. **AQs 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AQs, all flops | 69.705 | 66.209 | +3.496 | 1.05280 | | AQs, rainbow, ten or higher | 67.515 | 66.209 | +1.306 | 1.01973 | | AQs, rainbow, nine or lower | 80.581 | 66.209 | +14.372 | 1.21707 | | AQs, two-tone | 68.234 | 66.209 | +2.025 | 1.03058 | | AQs, monotone | 63.062 | 66.209 | -3.147 | 0.95247 | | AQs, paired | 73.699 | 66.209 | +7.490 | 1.11313 | | QTs, all flops | 30.295 | 59.468 | -29.173 | 0.50943 | | QTs, rainbow, ten or higher | 32.485 | 59.468 | -26.983 | 0.54626 | | QTs, rainbow, nine or lower | 19.419 | 59.468 | -40.049 | 0.32655 | | QTs, two-tone | 31.766 | 59.468 | -27.702 | 0.53417 | | QTs, monotone | 36.938 | 59.468 | -22.530 | 0.62114 | | QTs, paired | 26.301 | 59.468 | -33.167 | 0.44227 | ## Does a shared suit matter? There is no shared-suit case for this pair, since the cards they would need are already in the other hand. Every deal is a no-shared-suit deal. **AQs against QTs by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | AQs wins | Ties | QTs wins | AQs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 0 | 0.00 | not possible | not possible | not possible | not possible | | No shared suit | 12 | 100.00 | 68.989 | 1.431 | 29.580 | 69.705 | ## How often this matchup comes up How often does it happen? 12 of the 1,624,350 ordered deals (0.0007%) are AQs against QTs, and 24 (0.0015%) if either hand may sit in either seat. ## A worked example Put $100 each into a $200 pot and deal every board once: AQs averages $139.42 back, ahead of its $100 by $39.42, while QTs averages $60.58, short of its $100 by $39.42. Per 1,000 deals: AQs wins about 690, QTs wins about 296, and about 14 end in a split pot. ## The same matchup from the other side Read it from the other side: QTs against AQs is the same matchup with the numbers swapped, so QTs holds 30.29% and AQs holds 69.71%. That address sends you back to this page. ## Keep exploring AsQs against QhTh 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 AsQs against QhTh in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=AsQs&p2=QhTh) - [AQs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/aqs.md) - [QTs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/qts.md) - [AQs vs A4s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-a4s.md) - [AQs vs A3s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-a3s.md) - [AJs vs QTs](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajs-vs-qts.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed The figures are counted, not estimated: 1,712,304 boards for every suit pattern of the 12 specific deals, with both seven-card hands compared each time. Equity gives half a win for a tie. For the flop rows, a board is counted once under each of the ten flops inside it. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [AQs vs A4s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-a4s.md) - [AQs vs A3s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-a3s.md) - [AJs vs QTs: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajs-vs-qts.md)