--- title: "QJo vs QTo: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjo-vs-qto.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjo-vs-qto" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "QJo is a big favorite over QTo before the flop: 72.78% to 27.22% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjo-vs-44.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjo-vs-j9s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9o-vs-qto.md"] --- # QJo vs QTo: preflop equity QJo is a big favorite over QTo before the flop: 72.78% to 27.22% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Dealt all in against each other, QJo takes 72.78% of the pot on average and QTo takes the other 27.22%. ## QJo against QTo: the numbers **Exact preflop results for QJo against QTo, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QJo | 68.726 | 8.106 | 23.168 | 72.779 | | QTo | 23.168 | 8.106 | 68.726 | 27.221 | Each side holds one of the offsuit hands: QJo and QTo. 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 45.56 points is large but not decisive: QTo still takes about 232 of every 1,000 deals. A split pot comes up on 8.11% of boards, so the wins and the equity differ by half of that. The hand ranking puts QJo at 39 and QTo at 47 out of 169 starting hands. **Boards behind the percentages: 184,928,832 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QJo | 127,094,000 | 14,990,000 | 42,844,000 | | QTo | 42,844,000 | 14,990,000 | 127,094,000 | The board total is exact, 108 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 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QJo | 2.674 | 1.455 | 4.316 | 0.374 | | QTo | 0.374 | 4.316 | 1.455 | 2.674 | 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 If you know the kind of flop that came, the numbers shift: QJo holds 84.23% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) and 68.03% on monotone flops. QJo stays ahead on all five textures, but the swing between them is large, so how the flop looks matters a great deal. **QJo against QTo by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | QJo wins | Ties | QTo wins | QJo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.275 | 67.521 | 6.252 | 26.227 | 70.647 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.771 | 82.327 | 3.806 | 13.867 | 84.230 | | Two-tone | 46.477 | 70.573 | 5.552 | 23.875 | 73.349 | | Monotone | 5.144 | 64.982 | 6.104 | 28.914 | 68.034 | | Paired | 17.333 | 60.407 | 19.964 | 19.629 | 70.389 | Flop types: rainbow means three different suits, two-tone means one suit twice, monotone means one suit three times, paired means a repeated rank. ## Compared with a random hand Start from the random-hand figures, 58.14% for QJo and 57.29% for QTo. This opponent changes them by +14.64 and -30.07 points. **QJo 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QJo, all flops | 72.779 | 58.135 | +14.644 | 1.25190 | | QJo, rainbow, ten or higher | 70.647 | 58.135 | +12.512 | 1.21522 | | QJo, rainbow, nine or lower | 84.230 | 58.135 | +26.095 | 1.44887 | | QJo, two-tone | 73.349 | 58.135 | +15.214 | 1.26170 | | QJo, monotone | 68.034 | 58.135 | +9.899 | 1.17028 | | QJo, paired | 70.389 | 58.135 | +12.254 | 1.21079 | | QTo, all flops | 27.221 | 57.291 | -30.070 | 0.47514 | | QTo, rainbow, ten or higher | 29.353 | 57.291 | -27.938 | 0.51235 | | QTo, rainbow, nine or lower | 15.770 | 57.291 | -41.521 | 0.27526 | | QTo, two-tone | 26.651 | 57.291 | -30.640 | 0.46519 | | QTo, monotone | 31.966 | 57.291 | -25.325 | 0.55796 | | QTo, paired | 29.611 | 57.291 | -27.680 | 0.51685 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Split by suits, the deals give QJo 72.88% when the hands overlap in a suit and 72.42% when they do not. QJo does better with a shared suit, by 0.46 points. **QJo against QTo by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | QJo wins | Ties | QTo wins | QJo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 84 | 77.78 | 68.813 | 8.139 | 23.048 | 72.883 | | No shared suit | 24 | 22.22 | 68.422 | 7.990 | 23.588 | 72.417 | ## How often this matchup comes up Exactly 108 specific deals fit this matchup in one seat order, which is 0.0066% of 1,624,350; both orders together give 216, or 0.0133%. ## A worked example To see what the equity is worth, imagine $100 each in a $200 pot. QJo is worth $145.56 on average (+$45.56); QTo is worth $54.44 (-$45.56). Run 1,000 deals and the tally comes out near 687 for QJo, 232 for QTo and 81 ties. ## The same matchup from the other side QTo against QJo adds nothing new: it is 27.22% for QTo and 72.78% for QJo, the same figures reversed. ## Keep exploring QsJh against QdTc 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 QsJh against QdTc in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=QsJh&p2=QdTc) - [QJo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/qjo.md) - [QTo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/qto.md) - [QJo vs 44](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjo-vs-44.md) - [QJo vs J9s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjo-vs-j9s.md) - [K9o vs QTo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9o-vs-qto.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 108 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 44: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjo-vs-44.md) - [QJo vs J9s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjo-vs-j9s.md) - [K9o vs QTo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9o-vs-qto.md)