--- title: "QJo vs 43s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjo-vs-43s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjo-vs-43s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "QJo is a big favorite over 43s before the flop: 61.17% to 38.83% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9o-vs-43s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjo-vs-53s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a3s-vs-43s.md"] --- # QJo vs 43s: preflop equity QJo is a big favorite over 43s before the flop: 61.17% to 38.83% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. In equity, QJo against 43s stands at 61.17% to 38.83%, a gap of 22.34 points. ## QJo against 43s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for QJo against 43s, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QJo | 60.692 | 0.956 | 38.352 | 61.170 | | 43s | 38.352 | 0.956 | 60.692 | 38.830 | One side is an offsuit hand, the other is a suited hand. Neither hand shares a rank with the other, so this is a contest of high cards, connection and suits. A 22.34 point lead is real, and 43s still takes about 383 of every 1,000 deals outright. Ties are 0.96% of the outcomes here; each tied board gives both hands half the pot. For context, QJo sits at number 39 of 169 starting hands and 43s at number 150 when each is run against a random hand. **Boards behind the percentages: 82,190,592 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QJo | 49,883,000 | 786,000 | 31,522,000 | | 43s | 31,522,000 | 786,000 | 49,883,000 | Exact total: 48 deals times 1,712,304 boards. The other three counts come from the five-decimal percentages and are rounded to the nearest thousand, so read them as approximate. **QJo against 43s read as odds** | Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QJo | 1.575 | 1.648 | 2.607 | 0.635 | | 43s | 0.635 | 2.607 | 1.648 | 1.575 | 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 The flop changes the picture. QJo does best on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better, at 69.19%, and worst on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower), at 36.64%. On low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) the numbers flip and 43s is the one ahead. **QJo against 43s by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | QJo wins | Ties | 43s wins | QJo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 24.717 | 68.963 | 0.450 | 30.587 | 69.188 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 6.313 | 36.113 | 1.056 | 62.831 | 36.641 | | Two-tone | 46.667 | 59.392 | 0.540 | 40.068 | 59.662 | | Monotone | 5.212 | 57.948 | 2.715 | 39.337 | 59.305 | | Paired | 17.091 | 62.195 | 2.251 | 35.554 | 63.320 | 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 Against one random hand instead, QJo holds 58.14% and 43s holds 38.64%. Facing each other changes that by +3.03 points for QJo and +0.19 points for 43s. **QJo and 43s 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QJo, all flops | 61.170 | 58.135 | +3.035 | 1.05221 | | QJo, rainbow, ten or higher | 69.188 | 58.135 | +11.053 | 1.19013 | | QJo, rainbow, nine or lower | 36.641 | 58.135 | -21.494 | 0.63027 | | QJo, two-tone | 59.662 | 58.135 | +1.527 | 1.02627 | | QJo, monotone | 59.305 | 58.135 | +1.170 | 1.02013 | | QJo, paired | 63.320 | 58.135 | +5.185 | 1.08919 | | 43s, all flops | 38.830 | 38.642 | +0.188 | 1.00487 | | 43s, rainbow, ten or higher | 30.812 | 38.642 | -7.830 | 0.79737 | | 43s, rainbow, nine or lower | 63.359 | 38.642 | +24.717 | 1.63964 | | 43s, two-tone | 40.338 | 38.642 | +1.696 | 1.04389 | | 43s, monotone | 40.695 | 38.642 | +2.053 | 1.05313 | | 43s, paired | 36.680 | 38.642 | -1.962 | 0.94923 | ## Does a shared suit matter? When the hands share a suit, QJo holds 61.89%; when they do not, it holds 60.45%. QJo does better with a shared suit, by 1.44 points. **QJo against 43s by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | QJo wins | Ties | 43s wins | QJo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 24 | 50.00 | 61.393 | 0.993 | 37.614 | 61.889 | | No shared suit | 24 | 50.00 | 59.991 | 0.919 | 39.090 | 60.450 | ## How often this matchup comes up How often does it happen? 48 of the 1,624,350 ordered deals (0.0030%) are QJo against 43s, and 96 (0.0059%) if either hand may sit in either seat. ## A worked example Worked example: both players commit $100, so $200 sits in the middle. Over every board, QJo's average share is $122.34 (a gain of $22.34) and 43s' is $77.66 (a loss of $22.34). Scaled to 1,000 deals, that is roughly 607 wins for QJo, 383 for 43s and 10 chopped pots. ## The same matchup from the other side Swap the hands and you get 43s with 38.83% against QJo with 61.17%. We keep one page per matchup, with the better-ranked hand first. ## Keep exploring Open the calculator with QsJh against 4d3d 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. - [Open QsJh against 4d3d in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=QsJh&p2=4d3d) - [QJo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/qjo.md) - [43s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/43s.md) - [K9o vs 43s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9o-vs-43s.md) - [QJo vs 53s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjo-vs-53s.md) - [A3s vs 43s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a3s-vs-43s.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 48 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 - [K9o vs 43s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9o-vs-43s.md) - [QJo vs 53s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjo-vs-53s.md) - [A3s vs 43s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a3s-vs-43s.md)