QJo vs T9o: preflop equity

QJo against T9o: the numbers

Each side holds one of the offsuit hands: QJo and T9o. Neither hand shares a rank with the other, so this is a contest of high cards, connection and suits.

QJo is the clear favorite, though T9o gets there on roughly one board in 3. Ties are 0.92% 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 T9o at number 78 when each is run against a random hand.

Exact total: 144 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.

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

Break the boards down by their first three cards and QJo is strongest on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better (68.84%) and weakest on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) (55.02%). QJo stays ahead on all five textures.

A rainbow flop shows three suits, a two-tone flop repeats one suit, a monotone flop is a single suit, and a paired flop repeats a rank.

Compared with a random hand

Start from the random-hand figures, 58.14% for QJo and 51.53% for T9o. This opponent changes them by +7.74 and -17.41 points.

Does a shared suit matter?

Looking only at deals where the hands share a suit, QJo has 65.99%; looking only at deals where they do not, 65.32%. QJo does better with a shared suit, by 0.67 points.

How often this matchup comes up

Out of 1,624,350 ways to deal two seats two cards each, 144 are QJo in one seat and T9o in the other (0.0089%); with the seats swapped too, 288 (0.0177%).

A worked example

With $100 from each side, the $200 pot is split on average as $131.76 for QJo and $68.24 for T9o; the first side gains $31.76 per all-in and the second gives up $31.76.

Scaled to 1,000 deals, that is roughly 654 wins for QJo, 337 for T9o and 9 chopped pots.

The same matchup from the other side

Read it from the other side: T9o against QJo is the same matchup with the numbers swapped, so T9o holds 34.12% and QJo holds 65.88%. That address sends you back to this page.

Keep exploring

The calculator link fills in QsJh against Td9c, 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 Td9c in the equity calculator
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