--- title: "JJ vs QTs: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-qts.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-qts" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "JJ is a big favorite over QTs before the flop: 67.25% to 32.75% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-a4s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-a3s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-qts.md"] --- # JJ vs QTs: preflop equity JJ is a big favorite over QTs before the flop: 67.25% to 32.75% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. In equity, JJ against QTs stands at 67.25% to 32.75%, a gap of 34.50 points. ## JJ against QTs: the numbers **Exact preflop results for JJ against QTs, in percent** | 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. **Boards behind the percentages: 41,095,296 counted in all** | 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. **JJ against QTs 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 | 2.053 | 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. **JJ against QTs by flop texture, in percent** | 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. **JJ and QTs 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 | 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. **JJ against QTs by suit overlap, in percent** | 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. - [Open JsJh against QdTd in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=JsJh&p2=QdTd) - [JJ combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/jj.md) - [QTs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/qts.md) - [JJ vs A4s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-a4s.md) - [JJ vs A3s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-a3s.md) - [TT vs QTs](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-qts.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## 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. ## Related - [JJ vs A4s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-a4s.md) - [JJ vs A3s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-a3s.md) - [TT vs QTs: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-qts.md)