--- title: "JTs vs QTo: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jts-vs-qto.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jts-vs-qto" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "QTo is a big favorite over JTs before the flop: 69.23% to 30.78% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jts-vs-44.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jts-vs-j9s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a2s-vs-qto.md"] --- # JTs vs QTo: preflop equity QTo is a big favorite over JTs before the flop: 69.23% to 30.78% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Dealt all in against each other, QTo takes 69.22% of the pot on average and JTs takes the other 30.78%. ## JTs against QTo: the numbers **Exact preflop results for JTs against QTo, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | JTs | 28.933 | 3.684 | 67.383 | 30.775 | | QTo | 67.383 | 3.684 | 28.933 | 69.225 | JTs is a suited hand and QTo is an offsuit hand. The two hands share a rank, and the one with the better other card dominates: it wins most kicker battles when that shared rank hits. That is a clear edge, 69.22% to 30.78%, but JTs still wins often enough that one hand proves nothing. Ties are 3.68% of the outcomes here; each tied board gives both hands half the pot. Among the 169 starting hands, JTs is number 45 and QTo is number 47 by strength against a random hand. **Boards behind the percentages: 61,642,944 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | JTs | 17,835,000 | 2,271,000 | 41,537,000 | | QTo | 41,537,000 | 2,271,000 | 17,835,000 | 36 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. **JTs 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | JTs | 0.445 | 3.456 | 1.484 | 2.249 | | QTo | 2.249 | 1.484 | 3.456 | 0.445 | The final column gives the least the pot must offer for each unit called for a call to break even at this equity. ## Who is ahead on which flops Split by what the flop looks like, QTo peaks at 78.37% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) and bottoms out at 64.88% on monotone flops. QTo stays ahead on all five textures. **JTs against QTo by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | JTs wins | Ties | QTo wins | JTs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.177 | 29.493 | 3.702 | 66.805 | 31.344 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.771 | 21.115 | 1.033 | 77.852 | 21.631 | | Two-tone | 46.527 | 30.901 | 2.892 | 66.207 | 32.347 | | Monotone | 5.192 | 32.975 | 4.300 | 62.725 | 35.125 | | Paired | 17.333 | 25.195 | 6.792 | 68.013 | 28.591 | 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 How much does the opponent matter? Compared with its random-hand 57.53%, JTs changes by -26.75 points, and QTo, from 57.29%, by +11.93. **JTs 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | JTs, all flops | 30.775 | 57.528 | -26.753 | 0.53496 | | JTs, rainbow, ten or higher | 31.344 | 57.528 | -26.184 | 0.54485 | | JTs, rainbow, nine or lower | 21.631 | 57.528 | -35.897 | 0.37601 | | JTs, two-tone | 32.347 | 57.528 | -25.181 | 0.56228 | | JTs, monotone | 35.125 | 57.528 | -22.403 | 0.61057 | | JTs, paired | 28.591 | 57.528 | -28.937 | 0.49699 | | QTo, all flops | 69.225 | 57.291 | +11.934 | 1.20830 | | QTo, rainbow, ten or higher | 68.656 | 57.291 | +11.365 | 1.19837 | | QTo, rainbow, nine or lower | 78.369 | 57.291 | +21.078 | 1.36791 | | QTo, two-tone | 67.653 | 57.291 | +10.362 | 1.18087 | | QTo, monotone | 64.875 | 57.291 | +7.584 | 1.13238 | | QTo, paired | 71.409 | 57.291 | +14.118 | 1.24643 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Two kinds of deal exist here. In 12 of them the hands share a suit and QTo holds 70.17%. In 24 they do not, and it holds 68.75%. QTo does better with a shared suit, by 1.42 points. **JTs against QTo by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | JTs wins | Ties | QTo wins | JTs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 12 | 33.33 | 27.936 | 3.782 | 68.282 | 29.827 | | No shared suit | 24 | 66.67 | 29.431 | 3.636 | 66.933 | 31.249 | ## How often this matchup comes up Out of 1,624,350 ways to deal two seats two cards each, 36 are JTs in one seat and QTo in the other (0.0022%); with the seats swapped too, 72 (0.0044%). ## A worked example Try it with money: two players each put in $100 and the whole board runs out every possible way. QTo averages $138.44 from the $200, up $38.44; JTs averages $61.56, down $38.44. Run 1,000 deals and the tally comes out near 674 for QTo, 289 for JTs and 37 ties. ## The same matchup from the other side If you came looking for QTo against JTs, the numbers are the same with the hands swapped: 69.22% and 30.78%. ## Keep exploring JsTs against QhTd 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 JsTs against QhTd in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=JsTs&p2=QhTd) - [JTs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/jts.md) - [QTo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/qto.md) - [JTs vs 44](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jts-vs-44.md) - [JTs vs J9s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jts-vs-j9s.md) - [A2s vs QTo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a2s-vs-qto.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed All 1,712,304 five-card boards are dealt for every suit pattern among the 36 specific deals of JTs against QTo, and both hands are scored on each. That is a full count, so the percentages are exact. Ties are half a win each, and each board appears once per flop it contains. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [JTs vs 44: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jts-vs-44.md) - [JTs vs J9s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jts-vs-j9s.md) - [A2s vs QTo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a2s-vs-qto.md)