--- title: "QJs vs 65s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjs-vs-65s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjs-vs-65s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "QJs is a big favorite over 65s before the flop: 62.25% to 37.75% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjs-vs-54s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjs-vs-64s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9s-vs-65s.md"] --- # QJs vs 65s: preflop equity QJs is a big favorite over 65s before the flop: 62.25% to 37.75% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. In equity, QJs against 65s stands at 62.25% to 37.75%, a gap of 24.50 points. ## QJs against 65s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for QJs against 65s, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QJs | 61.792 | 0.918 | 37.290 | 62.251 | | 65s | 37.290 | 0.918 | 61.792 | 37.749 | QJs meets 65s, and both are suited hands. The two hands share no rank, which makes this a pure matchup of card strength, straight chances and flush chances. That is a modest edge, the kind that shows up over many hands and is easy to miss in one. A split pot comes up on 0.92% of boards, so the wins and the equity differ by half of that. For context, QJs sits at number 28 of 169 starting hands and 65s at number 128 when each is run 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 | 16,929,000 | 252,000 | 10,216,000 | | 65s | 10,216,000 | 252,000 | 16,929,000 | The total is exact: 16 specific deals times 1,712,304 boards. The three counts are approximate, worked out from the percentages to five decimals and rounded to the nearest thousand. **QJs against 65s 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 | 1.649 | 1.618 | 2.682 | 0.606 | | 65s | 0.606 | 2.682 | 1.618 | 1.649 | The final column gives the least the pot must offer for each unit called for a call to break even at this equity. ## Who is ahead on which flops Across the five flop textures QJs' equity moves by 36.01 points, from 33.88% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) to 69.89% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better. The overall edge for QJs hides low rainbow flops (nine high or lower), where 65s comes out in front. **QJs against 65s by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | QJs wins | Ties | 65s wins | QJs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 24.595 | 69.682 | 0.413 | 29.905 | 69.889 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 6.314 | 33.514 | 0.729 | 65.757 | 33.879 | | Two-tone | 46.727 | 61.463 | 0.445 | 38.092 | 61.685 | | Monotone | 5.273 | 57.935 | 3.584 | 38.481 | 59.727 | | Paired | 17.091 | 62.972 | 2.186 | 34.842 | 64.065 | 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 How much does the opponent matter? Compared with its random-hand 60.26%, QJs changes by +1.99 points, and 65s, from 43.13%, by -5.38. **QJs and 65s 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 | 62.251 | 60.259 | +1.992 | 1.03306 | | QJs, rainbow, ten or higher | 69.889 | 60.259 | +9.630 | 1.15981 | | QJs, rainbow, nine or lower | 33.879 | 60.259 | -26.380 | 0.56222 | | QJs, two-tone | 61.685 | 60.259 | +1.426 | 1.02366 | | QJs, monotone | 59.727 | 60.259 | -0.532 | 0.99117 | | QJs, paired | 64.065 | 60.259 | +3.806 | 1.06316 | | 65s, all flops | 37.749 | 43.133 | -5.384 | 0.87518 | | 65s, rainbow, ten or higher | 30.111 | 43.133 | -13.022 | 0.69810 | | 65s, rainbow, nine or lower | 66.121 | 43.133 | +22.988 | 1.53296 | | 65s, two-tone | 38.315 | 43.133 | -4.818 | 0.88830 | | 65s, monotone | 40.273 | 43.133 | -2.860 | 0.93369 | | 65s, paired | 35.935 | 43.133 | -7.198 | 0.83312 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Of the deals of this matchup, 4 share a suit (QJs at 64.47%) and 12 do not (61.51%). QJs does better with a shared suit, by 2.96 points. **QJs against 65s by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | QJs wins | Ties | 65s wins | QJs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 4 | 25.00 | 63.956 | 1.019 | 35.025 | 64.466 | | No shared suit | 12 | 75.00 | 61.070 | 0.885 | 38.045 | 61.513 | ## How often this matchup comes up The class pair covers 16 combinations of specific cards in a fixed seat order, 0.0010% of 1,624,350, and 32 (0.0020%) in either order. ## A worked example Say each player puts $100 in before the flop, making a $200 pot. On average QJs takes back $124.50 of it, which is $24.50 more than it put in, and 65s takes back $75.50, $24.50 less than it put in. Over a long run, 1,000 deals split into about 618 for QJs, 373 for 65s and 9 tied. ## The same matchup from the other side One page covers both views. From 65s' side the equity is 37.75%, and from QJs' side it is 62.25%. ## Keep exploring QsJs against 6h5h 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 6h5h in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=QsJs&p2=6h5h) - [QJs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/qjs.md) - [65s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/65s.md) - [QJs vs 54s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjs-vs-54s.md) - [QJs vs 64s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjs-vs-64s.md) - [K9s vs 65s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9s-vs-65s.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed We counted every case. Each suit pattern of the 16 specific QJs against 65s 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 54s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjs-vs-54s.md) - [QJs vs 64s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjs-vs-64s.md) - [K9s vs 65s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9s-vs-65s.md)