--- title: "JJ vs QTo: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-qto.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-qto" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "JJ is a big favorite over QTo before the flop: 70.83% to 29.17% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-44.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-j9s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-qto.md"] --- # JJ vs QTo: preflop equity JJ is a big favorite over QTo before the flop: 70.83% to 29.17% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Counting every board, the equity split is 70.83% for JJ and 29.17% for QTo, so JJ leads by 41.66 points. ## JJ against QTo: the numbers **Exact preflop results for JJ against QTo, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | JJ | 70.632 | 0.392 | 28.976 | 70.828 | | QTo | 28.976 | 0.392 | 70.632 | 29.172 | The matchup pits a pocket pair against an offsuit hand. The pair sits between the other hand's two cards: one is higher and one is lower, so the pair is exposed to the higher card. That is a clear edge, 70.83% to 29.17%, but QTo still wins often enough that one hand proves nothing. A split pot comes up on 0.39% of boards, so the wins and the equity differ by half of that. Ranked by equity against a random hand, JJ is number 4 of the 169 starting hands and QTo is number 47. **Boards behind the percentages: 123,285,888 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | JJ | 87,079,000 | 483,000 | 35,723,000 | | QTo | 35,723,000 | 483,000 | 87,079,000 | The board total is exact, 72 deals at 1,712,304 boards each. Won, tied and lost counts are rounded to the nearest thousand from the five-decimal percentages. **JJ against QTo 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 | 2.428 | 1.416 | 3.451 | 0.412 | | QTo | 0.412 | 3.451 | 1.416 | 2.428 | 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 By flop texture, JJ's equity runs from 66.00% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better up to 83.81% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower). 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 QTo by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | JJ wins | Ties | QTo wins | JJ equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.260 | 65.931 | 0.144 | 33.925 | 66.003 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.771 | 83.321 | 0.981 | 15.698 | 83.811 | | Two-tone | 46.485 | 69.800 | 0.339 | 29.861 | 69.970 | | Monotone | 5.151 | 65.233 | 1.718 | 33.049 | 66.092 | | Paired | 17.333 | 75.084 | 0.210 | 24.706 | 75.189 | 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 The table below sets each hand against its own random-hand baseline: a change of -6.64 points for JJ, from 77.47%, and -28.12 for QTo, from 57.29%. **JJ and QTo 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 | 70.828 | 77.469 | -6.641 | 0.91428 | | JJ, rainbow, ten or higher | 66.003 | 77.469 | -11.466 | 0.85199 | | JJ, rainbow, nine or lower | 83.811 | 77.469 | +6.342 | 1.08187 | | JJ, two-tone | 69.970 | 77.469 | -7.499 | 0.90320 | | JJ, monotone | 66.092 | 77.469 | -11.377 | 0.85314 | | JJ, paired | 75.189 | 77.469 | -2.280 | 0.97057 | | QTo, all flops | 29.172 | 57.291 | -28.119 | 0.50919 | | QTo, rainbow, ten or higher | 33.997 | 57.291 | -23.294 | 0.59341 | | QTo, rainbow, nine or lower | 16.189 | 57.291 | -41.102 | 0.28257 | | QTo, two-tone | 30.030 | 57.291 | -27.261 | 0.52417 | | QTo, monotone | 33.908 | 57.291 | -23.383 | 0.59186 | | QTo, paired | 24.811 | 57.291 | -32.480 | 0.43307 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Of the deals of this matchup, 60 share a suit (JJ at 70.86%) and 12 do not (70.67%). The two rows differ by only 0.19 points, so suits barely change this matchup. **JJ against QTo by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | JJ wins | Ties | QTo wins | JJ equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 60 | 83.33 | 70.654 | 0.408 | 28.938 | 70.858 | | No shared suit | 12 | 16.67 | 70.518 | 0.313 | 29.169 | 70.674 | ## How often this matchup comes up How often does it happen? 72 of the 1,624,350 ordered deals (0.0044%) are JJ against QTo, and 144 (0.0089%) if either hand may sit in either seat. ## A worked example Say each player puts $100 in before the flop, making a $200 pot. On average JJ takes back $141.66 of it, which is $41.66 more than it put in, and QTo takes back $58.34, $41.66 less than it put in. Scaled to 1,000 deals, that is roughly 706 wins for JJ, 290 for QTo and 4 chopped pots. ## The same matchup from the other side QTo against JJ adds nothing new: it is 29.17% for QTo and 70.83% for JJ, the same figures reversed. ## Keep exploring Try JsJh against QdTc 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 QdTc in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=JsJh&p2=QdTc) - [JJ combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/jj.md) - [QTo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/qto.md) - [JJ vs 44](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-44.md) - [JJ vs J9s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-j9s.md) - [TT vs QTo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-qto.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed We counted every case. Each suit pattern of the 72 specific JJ against QTo deals meets all 1,712,304 boards, and the better five-card hand wins; a split pot is half a win each. The flop table reads each board under all ten of its three-card flops. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [JJ vs 44: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-44.md) - [JJ vs J9s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-j9s.md) - [TT vs QTo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-qto.md)