--- title: "JJ vs AQs: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-aqs.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-aqs" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "Who is ahead, JJ or AQs? JJ leads 54.12% to 45.89% before the flop, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-ajs.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-ako.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-aqs.md"] --- # JJ vs AQs: preflop equity Who is ahead, JJ or AQs? JJ leads 54.12% to 45.89% before the flop, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Averaged over every possible board, JJ is ahead of AQs by 8.24 points of equity, 54.12% to 45.88%. ## JJ against AQs: the numbers **Exact preflop results for JJ against AQs, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | JJ | 53.908 | 0.415 | 45.677 | 54.115 | | AQs | 45.677 | 0.415 | 53.908 | 45.885 | JJ, a pocket pair, plays AQs, a suited 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. This is close to even money, with JJ a little ahead. Split pots make up 0.42% of the boards, and both equity figures count them as half a win each. The hand ranking puts JJ at 4 and AQs at 10 out of 169 starting hands. **Boards behind the percentages: 41,095,296 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | JJ | 22,154,000 | 171,000 | 18,771,000 | | AQs | 18,771,000 | 171,000 | 22,154,000 | 24 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. **JJ against AQs 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 | 1.179 | 1.855 | 2.189 | 0.848 | | AQs | 0.848 | 2.189 | 1.855 | 1.179 | The last column is the smallest pot odds, written as a pot-to-call ratio, at which a call breaks even with this equity. ## Who is ahead on which flops By flop texture, JJ's equity runs from 48.65% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better up to 71.24% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower). Watch for rainbow flops topped by a ten or better: on those flops AQs holds the better equity. **JJ against AQs by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | JJ wins | Ties | AQs wins | JJ equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.138 | 48.596 | 0.103 | 51.301 | 48.648 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.771 | 70.644 | 1.187 | 28.169 | 71.238 | | Two-tone | 46.545 | 51.751 | 0.340 | 47.909 | 51.921 | | Monotone | 5.212 | 51.224 | 2.413 | 46.363 | 52.430 | | Paired | 17.334 | 60.095 | 0.087 | 39.818 | 60.138 | 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 Start from the random-hand figures, 77.47% for JJ and 66.21% for AQs. This opponent changes them by -23.35 and -20.33 points. **JJ and AQs 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 | 54.115 | 77.469 | -23.354 | 0.69854 | | JJ, rainbow, ten or higher | 48.648 | 77.469 | -28.821 | 0.62797 | | JJ, rainbow, nine or lower | 71.238 | 77.469 | -6.231 | 0.91957 | | JJ, two-tone | 51.921 | 77.469 | -25.548 | 0.67022 | | JJ, monotone | 52.430 | 77.469 | -25.039 | 0.67679 | | JJ, paired | 60.138 | 77.469 | -17.331 | 0.77628 | | AQs, all flops | 45.885 | 66.209 | -20.324 | 0.69303 | | AQs, rainbow, ten or higher | 51.352 | 66.209 | -14.857 | 0.77560 | | AQs, rainbow, nine or lower | 28.762 | 66.209 | -37.447 | 0.43441 | | AQs, two-tone | 48.079 | 66.209 | -18.130 | 0.72617 | | AQs, monotone | 47.570 | 66.209 | -18.639 | 0.71848 | | AQs, paired | 39.862 | 66.209 | -26.347 | 0.60206 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Split by suits, the deals give JJ 54.27% when the hands overlap in a suit and 53.96% when they do not. JJ does better with a shared suit, by 0.31 points. **JJ against AQs by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | JJ wins | Ties | AQs wins | JJ equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 12 | 50.00 | 54.046 | 0.456 | 45.498 | 54.274 | | No shared suit | 12 | 50.00 | 53.769 | 0.375 | 45.856 | 53.957 | ## How often this matchup comes up Out of 1,624,350 ways to deal two seats two cards each, 24 are JJ in one seat and AQs in the other (0.0015%); with the seats swapped too, 48 (0.0030%). ## A worked example Say each player puts $100 in before the flop, making a $200 pot. On average JJ takes back $108.24 of it, which is $8.24 more than it put in, and AQs takes back $91.76, $8.24 less than it put in. Scaled to 1,000 deals, that is roughly 539 wins for JJ, 457 for AQs and 4 chopped pots. ## The same matchup from the other side Swap the hands and you get AQs with 45.88% against JJ with 54.12%. We keep one page per matchup, with the better-ranked hand first. ## Keep exploring JsJh against AdQd 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 JsJh against AdQd in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=JsJh&p2=AdQd) - [JJ combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/jj.md) - [AQs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/aqs.md) - [JJ vs AJs](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-ajs.md) - [JJ vs AKo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-ako.md) - [TT vs AQs](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-aqs.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed Method: exact enumeration. The 24 specific deals are grouped by suit pattern, each is run against all 1,712,304 boards, and both seven-card hands are scored. Equity adds half of every tie, and flop textures are tallied over the ten flops inside each board. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [JJ vs AJs: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-ajs.md) - [JJ vs AKo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-ako.md) - [TT vs AQs: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-aqs.md)