QJo
69.40%
Wins 67.53%, ties 3.75%
J9s
30.60%
Wins 28.72%, ties 3.75%
QJo against J9s: the numbers
| Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| QJo | 67.525 | 3.751 | 28.724 | 69.400 |
| J9s | 28.724 | 3.751 | 67.525 | 30.600 |
Here an offsuit hand (QJo) meets a suited hand (J9s). Sharing a rank is the signature of a dominated hand, since the weaker hand is usually out-kicked when the shared rank shows up.
A lead of 38.80 points is large but not decisive: J9s still takes about 287 of every 1,000 deals. Ties are part of the picture: 3.75% of boards end in a split pot, and each side counts that as half a win.
Among the 169 starting hands, QJo is number 39 and J9s is number 55 by strength against a random hand.
| Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about |
|---|---|---|---|
| QJo | 41,624,000 | 2,312,000 | 17,706,000 |
| J9s | 17,706,000 | 2,312,000 | 41,624,000 |
The total is exact: 36 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| QJo | 2.268 | 1.481 | 3.481 | 0.441 |
| J9s | 0.441 | 3.481 | 1.481 | 2.268 |
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
Across the five flop textures QJo's equity moves by 14.21 points, from 60.28% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) to 74.49% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better. QJo stays ahead on all five textures.
| Flop | Share of flops | QJo wins | Ties | J9s wins | QJo equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.905 | 72.631 | 3.719 | 23.650 | 74.491 |
| Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.042 | 59.748 | 1.065 | 39.187 | 60.280 |
| Two-tone | 46.527 | 66.297 | 2.958 | 30.745 | 67.776 |
| Monotone | 5.192 | 62.801 | 4.331 | 32.868 | 64.966 |
| Paired | 17.334 | 68.354 | 6.840 | 24.806 | 71.774 |
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
Relative to a random opponent, QJo changes by +11.26 points (baseline 58.14%) and J9s by -25.06 points (baseline 55.66%).
| Case | Equity here | Against a random hand | Change in points | Times the random-hand equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| QJo, all flops | 69.400 | 58.135 | +11.265 | 1.19377 |
| QJo, rainbow, ten or higher | 74.491 | 58.135 | +16.356 | 1.28135 |
| QJo, rainbow, nine or lower | 60.280 | 58.135 | +2.145 | 1.03690 |
| QJo, two-tone | 67.776 | 58.135 | +9.641 | 1.16584 |
| QJo, monotone | 64.966 | 58.135 | +6.831 | 1.11750 |
| QJo, paired | 71.774 | 58.135 | +13.639 | 1.23461 |
| J9s, all flops | 30.600 | 55.662 | -25.062 | 0.54975 |
| J9s, rainbow, ten or higher | 25.509 | 55.662 | -30.153 | 0.45828 |
| J9s, rainbow, nine or lower | 39.720 | 55.662 | -15.942 | 0.71359 |
| J9s, two-tone | 32.224 | 55.662 | -23.438 | 0.57892 |
| J9s, monotone | 35.034 | 55.662 | -20.628 | 0.62941 |
| J9s, paired | 28.226 | 55.662 | -27.436 | 0.50710 |
Does a shared suit matter?
Of the deals of this matchup, 12 share a suit (QJo at 70.41%) and 24 do not (68.89%). QJo does better with a shared suit, by 1.52 points.
| Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | QJo wins | Ties | J9s wins | QJo equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Share a suit | 12 | 33.33 | 68.485 | 3.858 | 27.657 | 70.414 |
| No shared suit | 24 | 66.67 | 67.045 | 3.697 | 29.258 | 68.894 |
How often this matchup comes up
Out of 1,624,350 ways to deal two seats two cards each, 36 are QJo in one seat and J9s in the other (0.0022%); with the seats swapped too, 72 (0.0044%).
A worked example
Take a $200 pot built from $100 each. QJo's equity of 69.40% is worth $138.80, a $38.80 edge, and J9s' 30.60% is worth $61.20, which is $38.80 under its stake.
Run 1,000 deals and the tally comes out near 675 for QJo, 287 for J9s and 38 ties.
The same matchup from the other side
J9s versus QJo is this same page seen from the other hand: 30.60% for J9s, 69.40% for QJo.
Keep exploring
Open the calculator with QsJh against Jd9d 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.
How this was computed
The page is built from a full enumeration: 1,712,304 boards, every suit pattern of the 36 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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