--- title: "ATs vs QJs: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ats-vs-qjs.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ats-vs-qjs" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "Who is ahead, ATs or QJs? ATs leads 58.05% to 41.95% before the flop, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ats-vs-k9s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ats-vs-a5s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqo-vs-qjs.md"] --- # ATs vs QJs: preflop equity Who is ahead, ATs or QJs? ATs leads 58.05% to 41.95% before the flop, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. In equity, ATs against QJs stands at 58.05% to 41.95%, a gap of 16.10 points. ## ATs against QJs: the numbers **Exact preflop results for ATs against QJs, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | ATs | 57.804 | 0.500 | 41.696 | 58.054 | | QJs | 41.696 | 0.500 | 57.804 | 41.946 | Here suited hands face each other, ATs on one side and QJs on the other. With no overlap in ranks, every card that pairs one hand is a card that does not pair the other. ATs is ahead, but QJs is far from dead: it takes 417 of every 1,000 deals outright. A split pot comes up on 0.50% of boards, so the wins and the equity differ by half of that. The hand ranking puts ATs at 13 and QJs at 28 out of 169 starting hands. **Boards behind the percentages: 27,396,864 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | ATs | 15,836,000 | 137,000 | 11,423,000 | | QJs | 11,423,000 | 137,000 | 15,836,000 | The board total is exact, 16 deals at 1,712,304 boards each. Won, tied and lost counts are rounded to the nearest thousand from the five-decimal percentages. **ATs against QJs read as odds** | Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | ATs | 1.384 | 1.730 | 2.398 | 0.723 | | QJs | 0.723 | 2.398 | 1.730 | 1.384 | The last column is the break-even price: the pot odds a call needs to offer, as a ratio of pot to call. ## Who is ahead on which flops The flop changes the picture. ATs does best on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower), at 73.39%, and worst on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better, at 52.28%. ATs stays ahead on all five textures, but the swing between them is large, so how the flop looks matters a great deal. **ATs against QJs by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | ATs wins | Ties | QJs wins | ATs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.138 | 52.230 | 0.106 | 47.664 | 52.283 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.771 | 72.948 | 0.877 | 26.175 | 73.386 | | Two-tone | 46.727 | 56.791 | 0.264 | 42.945 | 56.923 | | Monotone | 5.273 | 53.523 | 3.409 | 43.068 | 55.227 | | Paired | 17.091 | 62.557 | 0.612 | 36.831 | 62.863 | Rainbow flops have three suits, two-tone flops repeat one suit, monotone flops are all one suit, and paired flops repeat a rank. ## Compared with a random hand Start from the random-hand figures, 64.60% for ATs and 60.26% for QJs. This opponent changes them by -6.55 and -18.31 points. **ATs and QJs 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | ATs, all flops | 58.054 | 64.602 | -6.548 | 0.89864 | | ATs, rainbow, ten or higher | 52.283 | 64.602 | -12.319 | 0.80931 | | ATs, rainbow, nine or lower | 73.386 | 64.602 | +8.784 | 1.13597 | | ATs, two-tone | 56.923 | 64.602 | -7.679 | 0.88113 | | ATs, monotone | 55.227 | 64.602 | -9.375 | 0.85488 | | ATs, paired | 62.863 | 64.602 | -1.739 | 0.97308 | | QJs, all flops | 41.946 | 60.259 | -18.313 | 0.69610 | | QJs, rainbow, ten or higher | 47.717 | 60.259 | -12.542 | 0.79187 | | QJs, rainbow, nine or lower | 26.614 | 60.259 | -33.645 | 0.44166 | | QJs, two-tone | 43.077 | 60.259 | -17.182 | 0.71486 | | QJs, monotone | 44.773 | 60.259 | -15.486 | 0.74301 | | QJs, paired | 37.137 | 60.259 | -23.122 | 0.61629 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Does suit overlap move the numbers? ATs has 60.08% when the hands share a suit and 57.38% when they do not. ATs does better with a shared suit, by 2.70 points. **ATs against QJs by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | ATs wins | Ties | QJs wins | ATs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 4 | 25.00 | 59.788 | 0.577 | 39.635 | 60.077 | | No shared suit | 12 | 75.00 | 57.143 | 0.475 | 42.382 | 57.380 | ## How often this matchup comes up Exactly 16 specific deals fit this matchup in one seat order, which is 0.0010% of 1,624,350; both orders together give 32, or 0.0020%. ## A worked example A $100 all-in from each player makes a $200 pot, and the exact equity says ATs gets $116.10 of it on average and QJs gets $83.90. Over a long run, 1,000 deals split into about 578 for ATs, 417 for QJs and 5 tied. ## The same matchup from the other side If you came looking for QJs against ATs, the numbers are the same with the hands swapped: 41.95% and 58.05%. ## Keep exploring Try AsTs against QhJh in the calculator: the hands share no suit, and every card can be changed. The links after it are the closest matchups in the ranking. - [Open AsTs against QhJh in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=AsTs&p2=QhJh) - [ATs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/ats.md) - [QJs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/qjs.md) - [ATs vs K9s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ats-vs-k9s.md) - [ATs vs A5s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ats-vs-a5s.md) - [AQo vs QJs](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqo-vs-qjs.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed The page is built from a full enumeration: 1,712,304 boards, every suit pattern of the 16 specific deals, both seven-card hands evaluated. A tie is worth half a win to each hand, and a board is tallied under each of its ten possible flops for the texture rows. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [ATs vs K9s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ats-vs-k9s.md) - [ATs vs A5s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ats-vs-a5s.md) - [AQo vs QJs: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqo-vs-qjs.md)