--- title: "JJ vs AQo: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-aqo.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-aqo" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "Who is ahead, JJ or AQo? JJ leads 56.92% to 43.08% before the flop, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-ajo.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-kqs.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-aqo.md"] --- # JJ vs AQo: preflop equity Who is ahead, JJ or AQo? JJ leads 56.92% to 43.08% before the flop, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Counting every board, the equity split is 56.92% for JJ and 43.08% for AQo, so JJ leads by 13.84 points. ## JJ against AQo: the numbers **Exact preflop results for JJ against AQo, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | JJ | 56.723 | 0.400 | 42.877 | 56.923 | | AQo | 42.877 | 0.400 | 56.723 | 43.077 | JJ is a pocket pair and AQo is an offsuit hand. One hand holds a pair and the other holds two cards that both outrank it, which keeps the equity closer than most people expect. JJ is ahead, but AQo is far from dead: it takes 429 of every 1,000 deals outright. 0.40% of boards are ties, so the equity of each hand is its win rate plus half of that. By strength against a random hand, JJ holds place 4 of 169 and AQo holds place 14. **Boards behind the percentages: 123,285,888 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | JJ | 69,931,000 | 493,000 | 52,861,000 | | AQo | 52,861,000 | 493,000 | 69,931,000 | The total is exact: 72 specific deals times 1,712,304 boards. The three counts are approximate, worked out from the percentages to five decimals and rounded to the nearest thousand. **JJ against AQo read as odds** | Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | JJ | 1.321 | 1.763 | 2.332 | 0.757 | | AQo | 0.757 | 2.332 | 1.763 | 1.321 | 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 JJ prefers low rainbow flops (nine high or lower), where it holds 74.13%, and likes rainbow flops topped by a ten or better least, where it holds 50.07%. JJ stays ahead on all five textures, but the swing between them is large, so how the flop looks matters a great deal. **JJ against AQo by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | JJ wins | Ties | AQo wins | JJ equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.260 | 50.015 | 0.107 | 49.878 | 50.069 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.771 | 73.514 | 1.241 | 25.245 | 74.134 | | Two-tone | 46.485 | 55.509 | 0.374 | 44.117 | 55.696 | | Monotone | 5.151 | 51.822 | 1.742 | 46.436 | 52.693 | | Paired | 17.333 | 62.907 | 0.087 | 37.006 | 62.951 | A rainbow flop shows three suits, a two-tone flop repeats one suit, a monotone flop is a single suit, and a paired flop repeats a rank. ## Compared with a random hand A random hand would give JJ 77.47% and AQo 64.43%. Against each other the change is -20.55 points for JJ and -21.35 for AQo. **JJ and AQo 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | JJ, all flops | 56.923 | 77.469 | -20.546 | 0.73478 | | JJ, rainbow, ten or higher | 50.069 | 77.469 | -27.400 | 0.64631 | | JJ, rainbow, nine or lower | 74.134 | 77.469 | -3.335 | 0.95695 | | JJ, two-tone | 55.696 | 77.469 | -21.773 | 0.71895 | | JJ, monotone | 52.693 | 77.469 | -24.776 | 0.68018 | | JJ, paired | 62.951 | 77.469 | -14.518 | 0.81260 | | AQo, all flops | 43.077 | 64.432 | -21.355 | 0.66857 | | AQo, rainbow, ten or higher | 49.931 | 64.432 | -14.501 | 0.77494 | | AQo, rainbow, nine or lower | 25.866 | 64.432 | -38.566 | 0.40145 | | AQo, two-tone | 44.304 | 64.432 | -20.128 | 0.68761 | | AQo, monotone | 47.307 | 64.432 | -17.125 | 0.73422 | | AQo, paired | 37.049 | 64.432 | -27.383 | 0.57501 | ## Does a shared suit matter? The suit split reads 56.84% for JJ with a shared suit and 57.33% without one. JJ does better with no shared suit, by 0.49 points. **JJ against AQo by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | JJ wins | Ties | AQo wins | JJ equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 60 | 83.33 | 56.634 | 0.416 | 42.950 | 56.842 | | No shared suit | 12 | 16.67 | 57.167 | 0.320 | 42.513 | 57.327 | ## How often this matchup comes up Counting specific cards, JJ against AQo appears in 72 of the 1,624,350 ordered heads-up deals (0.0044%), and in 144 when the seats are swapped too (0.0089%). ## A worked example Take a $200 pot built from $100 each. JJ's equity of 56.92% is worth $113.84, a $13.84 edge, and AQo's 43.08% is worth $86.16, which is $13.84 under its stake. Over a long run, 1,000 deals split into about 567 for JJ, 429 for AQo and 4 tied. ## The same matchup from the other side AQo versus JJ is this same page seen from the other hand: 43.08% for AQo, 56.92% for JJ. ## Keep exploring Try JsJh against AdQc 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 JsJh against AdQc in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=JsJh&p2=AdQc) - [JJ combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/jj.md) - [AQo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/aqo.md) - [JJ vs AJo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-ajo.md) - [JJ vs KQs](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-kqs.md) - [TT vs AQo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-aqo.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed This is an exact count with no sampling. For the 72 ways to deal one JJ and one AQo without reusing a card, grouped by suit pattern, every one of the 1,712,304 possible boards is dealt and both seven-card hands are compared. A tie counts as half a win in the equity column, and each board is counted once under each of its ten three-card flops. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [JJ vs AJo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-ajo.md) - [JJ vs KQs: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-kqs.md) - [TT vs AQo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-aqo.md)