JJ
63.01%
Wins 62.26%, ties 1.50%
QJs
36.99%
Wins 36.24%, ties 1.50%
JJ against QJs: the numbers
| Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| JJ | 62.260 | 1.501 | 36.239 | 63.011 |
| QJs | 36.239 | 1.501 | 62.260 | 36.989 |
The first hand is a pocket pair; the second is a suited hand. The pair already holds one of the other hand's ranks, and that overlap cuts down the cards the other hand can pair with.
That is a modest edge, the kind that shows up over many hands and is easy to miss in one. Split pots make up 1.50% of the boards, and both equity figures count them as half a win each.
Among the 169 starting hands, JJ is number 4 and QJs is number 28 by strength against a random hand.
| Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about |
|---|---|---|---|
| JJ | 12,793,000 | 308,000 | 7,446,000 |
| QJs | 7,446,000 | 308,000 | 12,793,000 |
The board total is exact, 12 deals at 1,712,304 boards each. Won, tied and lost counts are rounded to the nearest thousand from the five-decimal percentages.
| Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| JJ | 1.704 | 1.606 | 2.759 | 0.587 |
| QJs | 0.587 | 2.759 | 1.606 | 1.704 |
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
Break the boards down by their first three cards and JJ is strongest on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) (80.45%) and weakest on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better (57.72%). JJ stays ahead on all five textures, but the swing between them is large, so how the flop looks matters a great deal.
| Flop | Share of flops | JJ wins | Ties | QJs wins | JJ equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.011 | 56.792 | 1.854 | 41.354 | 57.719 |
| Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.771 | 79.779 | 1.340 | 18.881 | 80.449 |
| Two-tone | 46.236 | 59.615 | 1.585 | 38.800 | 60.408 |
| Monotone | 5.151 | 58.134 | 2.551 | 39.315 | 59.410 |
| Paired | 17.831 | 69.733 | 0.593 | 29.674 | 70.030 |
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
The table below sets each hand against its own random-hand baseline: a change of -14.46 points for JJ, from 77.47%, and -23.27 for QJs, from 60.26%.
| Case | Equity here | Against a random hand | Change in points | Times the random-hand equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| JJ, all flops | 63.011 | 77.469 | -14.458 | 0.81337 |
| JJ, rainbow, ten or higher | 57.719 | 77.469 | -19.750 | 0.74506 |
| JJ, rainbow, nine or lower | 80.449 | 77.469 | +2.980 | 1.03847 |
| JJ, two-tone | 60.408 | 77.469 | -17.061 | 0.77977 |
| JJ, monotone | 59.410 | 77.469 | -18.059 | 0.76689 |
| JJ, paired | 70.030 | 77.469 | -7.439 | 0.90397 |
| QJs, all flops | 36.989 | 60.259 | -23.270 | 0.61383 |
| QJs, rainbow, ten or higher | 42.281 | 60.259 | -17.978 | 0.70165 |
| QJs, rainbow, nine or lower | 19.551 | 60.259 | -40.708 | 0.32445 |
| QJs, two-tone | 39.592 | 60.259 | -20.667 | 0.65703 |
| QJs, monotone | 40.590 | 60.259 | -19.669 | 0.67359 |
| QJs, paired | 29.970 | 60.259 | -30.289 | 0.49735 |
Does a shared suit matter?
Suits do not split this matchup, because no legal deal has the hands holding the same suit.
| Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | JJ wins | Ties | QJs wins | JJ equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Share a suit | 0 | 0.00 | not possible | not possible | not possible | not possible |
| No shared suit | 12 | 100.00 | 62.260 | 1.501 | 36.239 | 63.011 |
How often this matchup comes up
This page stands for 12 specific-card matchups (0.0007% of 1,624,350 ordered deals), or 24 once you count the seats both ways (0.0015%).
A worked example
Try it with money: two players each put in $100 and the whole board runs out every possible way. JJ averages $126.02 from the $200, up $26.02; QJs averages $73.98, down $26.02.
Over a long run, 1,000 deals split into about 623 for JJ, 362 for QJs and 15 tied.
The same matchup from the other side
Swap the hands and you get QJs with 36.99% against JJ with 63.01%. We keep one page per matchup, with the better-ranked hand first.
Keep exploring
Open the calculator with JsJh against QdJd 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.
How this was computed
Nothing here is simulated. The 12 deals of JJ against QJs fall into a few suit patterns, each dealt against all 1,712,304 boards, with both best five-card hands compared on every board. Ties give each hand half a win, and the flop rows count a board under each of its ten flops.
Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used.
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