JJ
67.25%
Wins 67.04%, ties 0.41%
QTs
32.75%
Wins 32.55%, ties 0.41%
JJ against QTs: the numbers
| Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| JJ | 67.043 | 0.410 | 32.547 | 67.248 |
| QTs | 32.547 | 0.410 | 67.043 | 32.752 |
One side is a pocket pair, the other is a suited hand. One of the other hand's cards outranks the pair and one is below it, which makes this a closer race than a pair against two small cards.
JJ is well ahead, and QTs needs a specific kind of board to catch up. Split pots make up 0.41% of the boards, and both equity figures count them as half a win each.
JJ ranks number 4 of 169 starting hands, and QTs ranks number 34, by equity against a random hand.
| Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about |
|---|---|---|---|
| JJ | 27,552,000 | 168,000 | 13,375,000 |
| QTs | 13,375,000 | 168,000 | 27,552,000 |
The total is exact: 24 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.
| Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| JJ | 2.053 | 1.492 | 3.072 | 0.487 |
| QTs | 0.487 | 3.072 | 1.492 | 2.053 |
In the last column, a pot-to-call ratio at or above the figure makes a call break even or better at this equity.
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) (80.97%) and weakest on monotone flops (62.50%). 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 | QTs wins | JJ equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.138 | 64.172 | 0.138 | 35.690 | 64.241 |
| Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.771 | 80.506 | 0.935 | 18.559 | 80.974 |
| Two-tone | 46.545 | 65.098 | 0.309 | 34.593 | 65.252 |
| Monotone | 5.212 | 61.297 | 2.396 | 36.307 | 62.495 |
| Paired | 17.334 | 71.791 | 0.210 | 27.999 | 71.896 |
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
A random hand would give JJ 77.47% and QTs 59.47%. Against each other the change is -10.22 points for JJ and -26.72 for QTs.
| Case | Equity here | Against a random hand | Change in points | Times the random-hand equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| JJ, all flops | 67.248 | 77.469 | -10.221 | 0.86806 |
| JJ, rainbow, ten or higher | 64.241 | 77.469 | -13.228 | 0.82925 |
| JJ, rainbow, nine or lower | 80.974 | 77.469 | +3.505 | 1.04524 |
| JJ, two-tone | 65.252 | 77.469 | -12.217 | 0.84230 |
| JJ, monotone | 62.495 | 77.469 | -14.974 | 0.80671 |
| JJ, paired | 71.896 | 77.469 | -5.573 | 0.92806 |
| QTs, all flops | 32.752 | 59.468 | -26.716 | 0.55075 |
| QTs, rainbow, ten or higher | 35.759 | 59.468 | -23.709 | 0.60131 |
| QTs, rainbow, nine or lower | 19.026 | 59.468 | -40.442 | 0.31994 |
| QTs, two-tone | 34.748 | 59.468 | -24.720 | 0.58431 |
| QTs, monotone | 37.505 | 59.468 | -21.963 | 0.63068 |
| QTs, paired | 28.104 | 59.468 | -31.364 | 0.47259 |
Does a shared suit matter?
Split by suits, the deals give JJ 67.46% when the hands overlap in a suit and 67.03% when they do not. JJ does better with a shared suit, by 0.43 points.
| Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | JJ wins | Ties | QTs wins | JJ equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Share a suit | 12 | 50.00 | 67.237 | 0.450 | 32.313 | 67.462 |
| No shared suit | 12 | 50.00 | 66.849 | 0.370 | 32.781 | 67.034 |
How often this matchup comes up
How often does it happen? 24 of the 1,624,350 ordered deals (0.0015%) are JJ against QTs, and 48 (0.0030%) if either hand may sit in either seat.
A worked example
A $100 all-in from each player makes a $200 pot, and the exact equity says JJ gets $134.50 of it on average and QTs gets $65.50.
Per 1,000 deals: JJ wins about 670, QTs wins about 326, and about 4 end in a split pot.
The same matchup from the other side
The mirror image, QTs against JJ, is 32.75% to 67.25%, and its address redirects to this page.
Keep exploring
Try JsJh against QdTd 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.
How this was computed
The page is built from a full enumeration: 1,712,304 boards, every suit pattern of the 24 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.
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