QJs
63.32%
Wins 62.87%, ties 0.90%
87s
36.68%
Wins 36.23%, ties 0.90%
QJs against 87s: the numbers
| Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| QJs | 62.867 | 0.897 | 36.236 | 63.316 |
| 87s | 36.236 | 0.897 | 62.867 | 36.684 |
QJs meets 87s, 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.
QJs is ahead, but 87s is far from dead: it takes 362 of every 1,000 deals outright. A split pot comes up on 0.90% of boards, so the wins and the equity differ by half of that.
In the ranking of all 169 starting hands, QJs is number 28 and 87s is number 100.
| Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about |
|---|---|---|---|
| QJs | 17,224,000 | 246,000 | 9,928,000 |
| 87s | 9,928,000 | 246,000 | 17,224,000 |
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 | 1.726 | 1.591 | 2.760 | 0.579 |
| 87s | 0.579 | 2.760 | 1.591 | 1.726 |
In the last column, a pot-to-call ratio at or above the figure makes a call break even or better at this equity.
Who is ahead on which flops
Rainbow flops topped by a ten or better are the best for QJs (70.19%); low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) are the worst (39.14%). On low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) the numbers flip and 87s is the one ahead.
| Flop | Share of flops | QJs wins | Ties | 87s wins | QJs equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rainbow, ten or higher | 24.595 | 69.966 | 0.452 | 29.582 | 70.192 |
| Rainbow, nine or lower | 6.314 | 38.894 | 0.495 | 60.611 | 39.141 |
| Two-tone | 46.727 | 62.618 | 0.425 | 36.957 | 62.831 |
| Monotone | 5.273 | 58.772 | 3.524 | 37.704 | 60.534 |
| Paired | 17.091 | 63.448 | 2.169 | 34.383 | 64.533 |
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
Relative to a random opponent, QJs changes by +3.06 points (baseline 60.26%) and 87s by -11.26 points (baseline 47.94%).
| Case | Equity here | Against a random hand | Change in points | Times the random-hand equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| QJs, all flops | 63.316 | 60.259 | +3.057 | 1.05073 |
| QJs, rainbow, ten or higher | 70.192 | 60.259 | +9.933 | 1.16484 |
| QJs, rainbow, nine or lower | 39.141 | 60.259 | -21.118 | 0.64955 |
| QJs, two-tone | 62.831 | 60.259 | +2.572 | 1.04268 |
| QJs, monotone | 60.534 | 60.259 | +0.275 | 1.00456 |
| QJs, paired | 64.533 | 60.259 | +4.274 | 1.07093 |
| 87s, all flops | 36.684 | 47.936 | -11.252 | 0.76527 |
| 87s, rainbow, ten or higher | 29.808 | 47.936 | -18.128 | 0.62183 |
| 87s, rainbow, nine or lower | 60.859 | 47.936 | +12.923 | 1.26959 |
| 87s, two-tone | 37.169 | 47.936 | -10.767 | 0.77539 |
| 87s, monotone | 39.466 | 47.936 | -8.470 | 0.82331 |
| 87s, paired | 35.467 | 47.936 | -12.469 | 0.73988 |
Does a shared suit matter?
Of the deals of this matchup, 4 share a suit (QJs at 65.67%) and 12 do not (62.53%). QJs does better with a shared suit, by 3.14 points.
| Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | QJs wins | Ties | 87s wins | QJs equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Share a suit | 4 | 25.00 | 65.171 | 0.996 | 33.833 | 65.669 |
| No shared suit | 12 | 75.00 | 62.099 | 0.865 | 37.036 | 62.531 |
How often this matchup comes up
How often does it happen? 16 of the 1,624,350 ordered deals (0.0010%) are QJs against 87s, and 32 (0.0020%) if either hand may sit in either seat.
A worked example
Say each player puts $100 in before the flop, making a $200 pot. On average QJs takes back $126.64 of it, which is $26.64 more than it put in, and 87s takes back $73.36, $26.64 less than it put in.
A thousand deals look like this: QJs takes 629, 87s takes 362, 9 are ties.
The same matchup from the other side
If you came looking for 87s against QJs, the numbers are the same with the hands swapped: 36.68% and 63.32%.
Keep exploring
Try QsJs against 8h7h in the calculator: the hands share no suit, and every card can be changed. The links after it are the closest matchups in the ranking.
How this was computed
Each figure is a complete count over boards. Take the 16 specific deals, group them by suit pattern, deal all 1,712,304 boards against each, and compare the two seven-card hands. Equity counts a tie as half a win; the flop rows use every one of a board's ten flops.
Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used.
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