--- title: "QJs vs 44: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjs-vs-44.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjs-vs-44" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "QJs vs 44 is close to a coin flip before the flop: 51.36% to 48.64% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjs-vs-j9s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjs-vs-jto.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9s-vs-44.md"] --- # QJs vs 44: preflop equity QJs vs 44 is close to a coin flip before the flop: 51.36% to 48.64% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Averaged over every possible board, QJs is ahead of 44 by 2.72 points of equity, 51.36% to 48.64%. ## QJs against 44: the numbers **Exact preflop results for QJs against 44, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QJs | 50.954 | 0.812 | 48.234 | 51.360 | | 44 | 48.234 | 0.812 | 50.954 | 48.640 | QJs and 44 are a suited hand and a pocket pair, in that order. One hand holds a pair and the other holds two cards that both outrank it, which keeps the equity closer than most people expect. QJs leads by less than 3 points of equity, so the result of any one deal is close to a toss-up. Split pots make up 0.81% of the boards, and both equity figures count them as half a win each. In the ranking of all 169 starting hands, QJs is number 28 and 44 is number 48. **Boards behind the percentages: 41,095,296 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QJs | 20,940,000 | 334,000 | 19,822,000 | | 44 | 19,822,000 | 334,000 | 20,940,000 | Exact total: 24 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. **QJs against 44 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 | 1.056 | 1.963 | 2.073 | 0.947 | | 44 | 0.947 | 2.073 | 1.963 | 1.056 | The last column is the break-even price: the pot odds a call needs to offer, as a ratio of pot to call. ## Who is ahead on which flops If you know the kind of flop that came, the numbers shift: QJs holds 57.51% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better and 24.91% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower). Watch for low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) and paired flops: on those flops 44 holds the better equity. **QJs against 44 by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | QJs wins | Ties | 44 wins | QJs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 24.595 | 57.325 | 0.372 | 42.303 | 57.511 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 6.314 | 24.450 | 0.914 | 74.636 | 24.907 | | Two-tone | 46.545 | 52.573 | 0.455 | 46.972 | 52.801 | | Monotone | 5.212 | 49.529 | 2.932 | 47.539 | 50.995 | | Paired | 17.334 | 47.648 | 1.719 | 50.633 | 48.508 | 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 How much does the opponent matter? Compared with its random-hand 60.26%, QJs changes by -8.90 points, and 44, from 57.02%, by -8.38. **QJs and 44 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 | 51.360 | 60.259 | -8.899 | 0.85232 | | QJs, rainbow, ten or higher | 57.511 | 60.259 | -2.748 | 0.95440 | | QJs, rainbow, nine or lower | 24.907 | 60.259 | -35.352 | 0.41333 | | QJs, two-tone | 52.801 | 60.259 | -7.458 | 0.87623 | | QJs, monotone | 50.995 | 60.259 | -9.264 | 0.84626 | | QJs, paired | 48.508 | 60.259 | -11.751 | 0.80499 | | 44, all flops | 48.640 | 57.023 | -8.383 | 0.85299 | | 44, rainbow, ten or higher | 42.489 | 57.023 | -14.534 | 0.74512 | | 44, rainbow, nine or lower | 75.093 | 57.023 | +18.070 | 1.31689 | | 44, two-tone | 47.199 | 57.023 | -9.824 | 0.82772 | | 44, monotone | 49.005 | 57.023 | -8.018 | 0.85939 | | 44, paired | 51.492 | 57.023 | -5.531 | 0.90300 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Two kinds of deal exist here. In 12 of them the hands share a suit and QJs holds 51.20%. In 12 they do not, and it holds 51.52%. QJs does better with no shared suit, by 0.32 points. **QJs against 44 by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | QJs wins | Ties | 44 wins | QJs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 12 | 50.00 | 50.779 | 0.850 | 48.371 | 51.204 | | No shared suit | 12 | 50.00 | 51.129 | 0.773 | 48.098 | 51.516 | ## How often this matchup comes up Counting specific cards, QJs against 44 appears in 24 of the 1,624,350 ordered heads-up deals (0.0015%), and in 48 when the seats are swapped too (0.0030%). ## A worked example Put $100 each into a $200 pot and deal every board once: QJs averages $102.72 back, ahead of its $100 by $2.72, while 44 averages $97.28, short of its $100 by $2.72. Scaled to 1,000 deals, that is roughly 510 wins for QJs, 482 for 44 and 8 chopped pots. ## The same matchup from the other side 44 against QJs adds nothing new: it is 48.64% for 44 and 51.36% for QJs, the same figures reversed. ## Keep exploring QsJs against 4h4d 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 4h4d in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=QsJs&p2=4h4d) - [QJs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/qjs.md) - [44 combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/44.md) - [QJs vs J9s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjs-vs-j9s.md) - [QJs vs JTo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjs-vs-jto.md) - [K9s vs 44](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9s-vs-44.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed We counted every case. Each suit pattern of the 24 specific QJs against 44 deals meets all 1,712,304 boards, and the better five-card hand wins; a split pot is half a win each. The flop table reads each board under all ten of its three-card flops. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [QJs vs J9s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjs-vs-j9s.md) - [QJs vs JTo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjs-vs-jto.md) - [K9s vs 44: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9s-vs-44.md)