--- title: "QJo vs JTs: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjo-vs-jts.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjo-vs-jts" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "QJo is a big favorite over JTs before the flop: 69.36% to 30.64% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjo-vs-a2s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjo-vs-qto.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9o-vs-jts.md"] --- # QJo vs JTs: preflop equity QJo is a big favorite over JTs before the flop: 69.36% to 30.64% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Averaged over every possible board, QJo is ahead of JTs by 38.72 points of equity, 69.36% to 30.64%. ## QJo against JTs: the numbers **Exact preflop results for QJo against JTs, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QJo | 67.507 | 3.706 | 28.787 | 69.360 | | JTs | 28.787 | 3.706 | 67.507 | 30.640 | QJo is an offsuit hand and JTs is a suited hand. 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 38.72 points is large but not decisive: JTs still takes about 288 of every 1,000 deals. Ties are part of the picture: 3.71% of boards end in a split pot, and each side counts that as half a win. By strength against a random hand, QJo holds place 39 of 169 and JTs holds place 45. **Boards behind the percentages: 61,642,944 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QJo | 41,613,000 | 2,284,000 | 17,745,000 | | JTs | 17,745,000 | 2,284,000 | 41,613,000 | The board total is exact, 36 deals at 1,712,304 boards each. Won, tied and lost counts are rounded to the nearest thousand from the five-decimal percentages. **QJo against JTs 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 | 2.264 | 1.481 | 3.474 | 0.442 | | JTs | 0.442 | 3.474 | 1.481 | 2.264 | 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 78.37% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) and 64.99% on monotone flops. QJo stays ahead on all five textures. **QJo against JTs by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | QJo wins | Ties | JTs wins | QJo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.177 | 66.941 | 3.712 | 29.347 | 68.797 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.771 | 77.852 | 1.033 | 21.115 | 78.369 | | Two-tone | 46.527 | 66.314 | 2.901 | 30.785 | 67.765 | | Monotone | 5.192 | 62.832 | 4.312 | 32.856 | 64.988 | | Paired | 17.333 | 68.230 | 6.873 | 24.897 | 71.666 | 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 +11.22 points (baseline 58.14%) and JTs by -26.89 points (baseline 57.53%). **QJo and JTs 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 | 69.360 | 58.135 | +11.225 | 1.19309 | | QJo, rainbow, ten or higher | 68.797 | 58.135 | +10.662 | 1.18340 | | QJo, rainbow, nine or lower | 78.369 | 58.135 | +20.234 | 1.34805 | | QJo, two-tone | 67.765 | 58.135 | +9.630 | 1.16565 | | QJo, monotone | 64.988 | 58.135 | +6.853 | 1.11788 | | QJo, paired | 71.666 | 58.135 | +13.531 | 1.23275 | | JTs, all flops | 30.640 | 57.528 | -26.888 | 0.53261 | | JTs, rainbow, ten or higher | 31.203 | 57.528 | -26.325 | 0.54240 | | JTs, rainbow, nine or lower | 21.631 | 57.528 | -35.897 | 0.37601 | | JTs, two-tone | 32.235 | 57.528 | -25.293 | 0.56034 | | JTs, monotone | 35.012 | 57.528 | -22.516 | 0.60861 | | JTs, paired | 28.334 | 57.528 | -29.194 | 0.49253 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Looking only at deals where the hands share a suit, QJo has 70.31%; looking only at deals where they do not, 68.89%. QJo does better with a shared suit, by 1.42 points. **QJo against JTs by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | QJo wins | Ties | JTs wins | QJo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 12 | 33.33 | 68.408 | 3.803 | 27.789 | 70.310 | | No shared suit | 24 | 66.67 | 67.057 | 3.657 | 29.286 | 68.885 | ## How often this matchup comes up QJo against JTs is made up of 36 specific-card matchups in one seat order, 0.0022% of the 1,624,350 ordered deals, and 72 counting both seat orders, 0.0044%. ## A worked example Put $100 each into a $200 pot and deal every board once: QJo averages $138.72 back, ahead of its $100 by $38.72, while JTs averages $61.28, short of its $100 by $38.72. Scaled to 1,000 deals, that is roughly 675 wins for QJo, 288 for JTs and 37 chopped pots. ## The same matchup from the other side Swap the hands and you get JTs with 30.64% against QJo with 69.36%. We keep one page per matchup, with the better-ranked hand first. ## Keep exploring The calculator link fills in QsJh against JdTd, 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 JdTd in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=QsJh&p2=JdTd) - [QJo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/qjo.md) - [JTs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/jts.md) - [QJo vs A2s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjo-vs-a2s.md) - [QJo vs QTo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjo-vs-qto.md) - [K9o vs JTs](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9o-vs-jts.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed Each figure is a complete count over boards. Take the 36 specific deals, group them by suit pattern, deal all 1,712,304 boards against each, and compare the two seven-card hands. Equity counts a tie as half a win; the flop rows use every one of a board's ten flops. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [QJo vs A2s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjo-vs-a2s.md) - [QJo vs QTo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjo-vs-qto.md) - [K9o vs JTs: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9o-vs-jts.md)