QJs
63.65%
Wins 63.16%, ties 0.98%
43s
36.35%
Wins 35.86%, ties 0.98%
QJs against 43s: the numbers
| Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| QJs | 63.164 | 0.980 | 35.856 | 63.654 |
| 43s | 35.856 | 0.980 | 63.164 | 36.346 |
Two suited hands meet here: QJs against 43s. With no overlap in ranks, every card that pairs one hand is a card that does not pair the other.
The lead is steady rather than large, and the flop still has plenty of say in who wins. The tie share is 0.98%: on those boards the pot is chopped and neither hand wins outright.
Among the 169 starting hands, QJs is number 28 and 43s is number 150 by strength against a random hand.
| Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about |
|---|---|---|---|
| QJs | 17,305,000 | 268,000 | 9,823,000 |
| 43s | 9,823,000 | 268,000 | 17,305,000 |
The board total is exact, 16 deals at 1,712,304 boards each. Won, tied and lost counts are rounded to the nearest thousand from the five-decimal percentages.
| Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| QJs | 1.751 | 1.583 | 2.789 | 0.571 |
| 43s | 0.571 | 2.789 | 1.583 | 1.751 |
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
QJs prefers rainbow flops topped by a ten or better, where it holds 70.47%, and likes low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) least, where it holds 39.08%. 43s is ahead on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower), even though it trails QJs when every flop is counted.
| Flop | Share of flops | QJs wins | Ties | 43s wins | QJs equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rainbow, ten or higher | 24.595 | 70.251 | 0.437 | 29.312 | 70.470 |
| Rainbow, nine or lower | 6.314 | 38.577 | 1.011 | 60.412 | 39.083 |
| Two-tone | 46.727 | 62.783 | 0.508 | 36.709 | 63.037 |
| Monotone | 5.273 | 58.923 | 3.776 | 37.301 | 60.811 |
| Paired | 17.091 | 64.398 | 2.176 | 33.426 | 65.486 |
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
Against one random hand instead, QJs holds 60.26% and 43s holds 38.64%. Facing each other changes that by +3.39 points for QJs and -2.29 points for 43s.
| Case | Equity here | Against a random hand | Change in points | Times the random-hand equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| QJs, all flops | 63.654 | 60.259 | +3.395 | 1.05634 |
| QJs, rainbow, ten or higher | 70.470 | 60.259 | +10.211 | 1.16945 |
| QJs, rainbow, nine or lower | 39.083 | 60.259 | -21.176 | 0.64858 |
| QJs, two-tone | 63.037 | 60.259 | +2.778 | 1.04610 |
| QJs, monotone | 60.811 | 60.259 | +0.552 | 1.00916 |
| QJs, paired | 65.486 | 60.259 | +5.227 | 1.08674 |
| 43s, all flops | 36.346 | 38.642 | -2.296 | 0.94058 |
| 43s, rainbow, ten or higher | 29.530 | 38.642 | -9.112 | 0.76419 |
| 43s, rainbow, nine or lower | 60.917 | 38.642 | +22.275 | 1.57645 |
| 43s, two-tone | 36.963 | 38.642 | -1.679 | 0.95655 |
| 43s, monotone | 39.189 | 38.642 | +0.547 | 1.01416 |
| 43s, paired | 34.514 | 38.642 | -4.128 | 0.89317 |
Does a shared suit matter?
Does suit overlap move the numbers? QJs has 66.03% when the hands share a suit and 62.86% when they do not. QJs does better with a shared suit, by 3.17 points.
| Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | QJs wins | Ties | 43s wins | QJs equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Share a suit | 4 | 25.00 | 65.488 | 1.077 | 33.435 | 66.026 |
| No shared suit | 12 | 75.00 | 62.390 | 0.947 | 36.663 | 62.863 |
How often this matchup comes up
How often does it happen? 16 of the 1,624,350 ordered deals (0.0010%) are QJs against 43s, and 32 (0.0020%) if either hand may sit in either seat.
A worked example
Take a $200 pot built from $100 each. QJs' equity of 63.65% is worth $127.30, a $27.30 edge, and 43s' 36.35% is worth $72.70, which is $27.30 under its stake.
Over a long run, 1,000 deals split into about 632 for QJs, 358 for 43s and 10 tied.
The same matchup from the other side
Read it from the other side: 43s against QJs is the same matchup with the numbers swapped, so 43s holds 36.35% and QJs holds 63.65%. That address sends you back to this page.
Keep exploring
QsJs against 4h3h 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.
How this was computed
This is an exact count with no sampling. For the 16 ways to deal one QJs and one 43s without reusing a card, grouped by suit pattern, every one of the 1,712,304 possible boards is dealt and both seven-card hands are compared. A tie counts as half a win in the equity column, and each board is counted once under each of its ten three-card flops.
Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used.
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