--- title: "QJs vs 43s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjs-vs-43s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjs-vs-43s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "QJs is a big favorite over 43s before the flop: 63.65% to 36.35% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9s-vs-43s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjs-vs-53s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/55-vs-43s.md"] --- # QJs vs 43s: preflop equity QJs is a big favorite over 43s before the flop: 63.65% to 36.35% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Averaged over every possible board, QJs is ahead of 43s by 27.30 points of equity, 63.65% to 36.35%. ## QJs against 43s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for QJs against 43s, in percent** | 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. **Boards behind the percentages: 27,396,864 counted in all** | 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. **QJs against 43s read as odds** | 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. **QJs against 43s by flop texture, in percent** | 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. **QJs and 43s 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 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. **QJs against 43s by suit overlap, in percent** | 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. - [Open QsJs against 4h3h in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=QsJs&p2=4h3h) - [QJs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/qjs.md) - [43s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/43s.md) - [K9s vs 43s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9s-vs-43s.md) - [QJs vs 53s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjs-vs-53s.md) - [55 vs 43s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/55-vs-43s.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## 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. ## Related - [K9s vs 43s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9s-vs-43s.md) - [QJs vs 53s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjs-vs-53s.md) - [55 vs 43s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/55-vs-43s.md)