--- title: "QJs vs A5s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjs-vs-a5s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjs-vs-a5s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "Who is ahead, QJs or A5s? A5s leads 56.01% to 43.99% before the flop, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjs-vs-a6s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjs-vs-kto.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9s-vs-a5s.md"] --- # QJs vs A5s: preflop equity Who is ahead, QJs or A5s? A5s leads 56.01% to 43.99% before the flop, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Averaged over every possible board, A5s is ahead of QJs by 12.02 points of equity, 56.01% to 43.99%. ## QJs against A5s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for QJs against A5s, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QJs | 43.730 | 0.513 | 55.757 | 43.987 | | A5s | 55.757 | 0.513 | 43.730 | 56.013 | This is a contest between two suited hands, QJs and A5s. Neither hand shares a rank with the other, so this is a contest of high cards, connection and suits. A5s is ahead, but QJs is far from dead: it takes 437 of every 1,000 deals outright. Split pots make up 0.51% of the boards, and both equity figures count them as half a win each. By strength against a random hand, QJs holds place 28 of 169 and A5s holds place 30. **Boards behind the percentages: 27,396,864 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QJs | 11,981,000 | 141,000 | 15,276,000 | | A5s | 15,276,000 | 141,000 | 11,981,000 | 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 A5s 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 | 0.785 | 2.287 | 1.793 | 1.273 | | A5s | 1.273 | 1.793 | 2.287 | 0.785 | 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 By flop texture, A5s' equity runs from 49.68% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better up to 73.80% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower). Rainbow flops topped by a ten or better favor QJs, the hand that is behind overall. **QJs against A5s by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | QJs wins | Ties | A5s wins | QJs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.867 | 50.263 | 0.113 | 49.624 | 50.319 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.042 | 25.722 | 0.961 | 73.317 | 26.202 | | Two-tone | 46.727 | 45.038 | 0.277 | 54.685 | 45.177 | | Monotone | 5.273 | 44.562 | 3.433 | 52.005 | 46.279 | | Paired | 17.091 | 38.196 | 0.632 | 61.172 | 38.512 | Rainbow flops have three suits, two-tone flops repeat one suit, monotone flops are all one suit, and paired flops repeat a rank. ## Compared with a random hand The table below sets each hand against its own random-hand baseline: a change of -16.27 points for QJs, from 60.26%, and -3.91 for A5s, from 59.92%. **QJs and A5s 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 | 43.987 | 60.259 | -16.272 | 0.72997 | | QJs, rainbow, ten or higher | 50.319 | 60.259 | -9.940 | 0.83505 | | QJs, rainbow, nine or lower | 26.202 | 60.259 | -34.057 | 0.43482 | | QJs, two-tone | 45.177 | 60.259 | -15.082 | 0.74971 | | QJs, monotone | 46.279 | 60.259 | -13.980 | 0.76800 | | QJs, paired | 38.512 | 60.259 | -21.747 | 0.63911 | | A5s, all flops | 56.013 | 59.923 | -3.910 | 0.93475 | | A5s, rainbow, ten or higher | 49.681 | 59.923 | -10.242 | 0.82908 | | A5s, rainbow, nine or lower | 73.798 | 59.923 | +13.875 | 1.23155 | | A5s, two-tone | 54.823 | 59.923 | -5.100 | 0.91489 | | A5s, monotone | 53.721 | 59.923 | -6.202 | 0.89650 | | A5s, paired | 61.488 | 59.923 | +1.565 | 1.02612 | ## Does a shared suit matter? When the hands share a suit, A5s holds 57.78%; when they do not, it holds 55.42%. A5s does better with a shared suit, by 2.36 points. **QJs against A5s by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | QJs wins | Ties | A5s wins | QJs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 4 | 25.00 | 41.922 | 0.594 | 57.484 | 42.219 | | No shared suit | 12 | 75.00 | 44.333 | 0.486 | 55.181 | 44.576 | ## How often this matchup comes up Out of 1,624,350 ways to deal two seats two cards each, 16 are QJs in one seat and A5s in the other (0.0010%); with the seats swapped too, 32 (0.0020%). ## A worked example To see what the equity is worth, imagine $100 each in a $200 pot. A5s is worth $112.02 on average (+$12.02); QJs is worth $87.98 (-$12.02). Per 1,000 deals: A5s wins about 558, QJs wins about 437, and about 5 end in a split pot. ## The same matchup from the other side One page covers both views. From A5s' side the equity is 56.01%, and from QJs' side it is 43.99%. ## Keep exploring Open the calculator with QsJs against Ah5h already entered, a deal with no shared suit, and change any card to try your own hand. The matchups after it each swap one hand for a nearby one in the ranking. - [Open QsJs against Ah5h in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=QsJs&p2=Ah5h) - [QJs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/qjs.md) - [A5s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/a5s.md) - [QJs vs A6s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjs-vs-a6s.md) - [QJs vs KTo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjs-vs-kto.md) - [K9s vs A5s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9s-vs-a5s.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 A5s 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 - [QJs vs A6s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjs-vs-a6s.md) - [QJs vs KTo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjs-vs-kto.md) - [K9s vs A5s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9s-vs-a5s.md)