--- title: "QJo vs 65s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjo-vs-65s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjo-vs-65s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "Who is ahead, QJo or 65s? QJo leads 59.71% to 40.29% before the flop, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjo-vs-54s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjo-vs-64s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9o-vs-65s.md"] --- # QJo vs 65s: preflop equity Who is ahead, QJo or 65s? QJo leads 59.71% to 40.29% before the flop, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Counting every board, the equity split is 59.71% for QJo and 40.29% for 65s, so QJo leads by 19.42 points. ## QJo against 65s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for QJo against 65s, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QJo | 59.262 | 0.894 | 39.844 | 59.709 | | 65s | 39.844 | 0.894 | 59.262 | 40.291 | QJo and 65s are an offsuit hand and a suited hand, in that order. Neither hand shares a rank with the other, so this is a contest of high cards, connection and suits. QJo is ahead, but 65s is far from dead: it takes 398 of every 1,000 deals outright. The tie share is 0.89%: on those boards the pot is chopped and neither hand wins outright. Ranked by equity against a random hand, QJo is number 39 of the 169 starting hands and 65s is number 128. **Boards behind the percentages: 82,190,592 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QJo | 48,708,000 | 735,000 | 32,748,000 | | 65s | 32,748,000 | 735,000 | 48,708,000 | 48 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. **QJo against 65s 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 | 1.482 | 1.687 | 2.510 | 0.675 | | 65s | 0.675 | 2.510 | 1.687 | 1.482 | The last column is the smallest pot odds, written as a pot-to-call ratio, at which a call breaks even with this equity. ## Who is ahead on which flops If you know the kind of flop that came, the numbers shift: QJo holds 68.59% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better and 31.34% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower). The lead reverses on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower): there 65s is the favorite even though QJo is ahead overall. **QJo against 65s by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | QJo wins | Ties | 65s wins | QJo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 24.717 | 68.376 | 0.425 | 31.199 | 68.589 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 6.313 | 30.955 | 0.766 | 68.279 | 31.338 | | Two-tone | 46.667 | 58.002 | 0.472 | 41.526 | 58.238 | | Monotone | 5.212 | 56.899 | 2.569 | 40.532 | 58.184 | | Paired | 17.091 | 60.697 | 2.262 | 37.041 | 61.828 | Rainbow flops have three suits, two-tone flops repeat one suit, monotone flops are all one suit, and paired flops repeat a rank. ## Compared with a random hand Relative to a random opponent, QJo changes by +1.57 points (baseline 58.14%) and 65s by -2.84 points (baseline 43.13%). **QJo and 65s 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 | 59.709 | 58.135 | +1.574 | 1.02707 | | QJo, rainbow, ten or higher | 68.589 | 58.135 | +10.454 | 1.17982 | | QJo, rainbow, nine or lower | 31.338 | 58.135 | -26.797 | 0.53906 | | QJo, two-tone | 58.238 | 58.135 | +0.103 | 1.00177 | | QJo, monotone | 58.184 | 58.135 | +0.049 | 1.00084 | | QJo, paired | 61.828 | 58.135 | +3.693 | 1.06352 | | 65s, all flops | 40.291 | 43.133 | -2.842 | 0.93411 | | 65s, rainbow, ten or higher | 31.411 | 43.133 | -11.722 | 0.72824 | | 65s, rainbow, nine or lower | 68.662 | 43.133 | +25.529 | 1.59187 | | 65s, two-tone | 41.762 | 43.133 | -1.371 | 0.96821 | | 65s, monotone | 41.816 | 43.133 | -1.317 | 0.96947 | | 65s, paired | 38.172 | 43.133 | -4.961 | 0.88498 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Looking only at deals where the hands share a suit, QJo has 60.41%; looking only at deals where they do not, 59.01%. QJo does better with a shared suit, by 1.40 points. **QJo against 65s by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | QJo wins | Ties | 65s wins | QJo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 24 | 50.00 | 59.938 | 0.936 | 39.126 | 60.406 | | No shared suit | 24 | 50.00 | 58.586 | 0.852 | 40.562 | 59.012 | ## How often this matchup comes up The class pair covers 48 combinations of specific cards in a fixed seat order, 0.0030% of 1,624,350, and 96 (0.0059%) in either order. ## A worked example With $100 from each side, the $200 pot is split on average as $119.42 for QJo and $80.58 for 65s; the first side gains $19.42 per all-in and the second gives up $19.42. Over a long run, 1,000 deals split into about 593 for QJo, 398 for 65s and 9 tied. ## The same matchup from the other side If you came looking for 65s against QJo, the numbers are the same with the hands swapped: 40.29% and 59.71%. ## Keep exploring The calculator link fills in QsJh against 6d5d, a deal where the two hands share no suit. Change any card to test your own hand. The neighboring matchups below swap one of the two hands for one of similar strength. - [Open QsJh against 6d5d in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=QsJh&p2=6d5d) - [QJo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/qjo.md) - [65s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/65s.md) - [QJo vs 54s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjo-vs-54s.md) - [QJo vs 64s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjo-vs-64s.md) - [K9o vs 65s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9o-vs-65s.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed The figures are counted, not estimated: 1,712,304 boards for every suit pattern of the 48 specific deals, with both seven-card hands compared each time. Equity gives half a win for a tie. For the flop rows, a board is counted once under each of the ten flops inside it. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [QJo vs 54s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjo-vs-54s.md) - [QJo vs 64s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjo-vs-64s.md) - [K9o vs 65s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9o-vs-65s.md)