--- title: "QJs vs A6s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjs-vs-a6s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjs-vs-a6s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "Who is ahead, QJs or A6s? A6s leads 55.45% to 44.56% before the flop, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjs-vs-kto.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjs-vs-qts.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9s-vs-a6s.md"] --- # QJs vs A6s: preflop equity Who is ahead, QJs or A6s? A6s leads 55.45% to 44.56% before the flop, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Before any board card is dealt, A6s holds 55.44% equity against QJs, which leaves QJs with 44.56%. ## QJs against A6s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for QJs against A6s, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QJs | 44.314 | 0.483 | 55.203 | 44.555 | | A6s | 55.203 | 0.483 | 44.314 | 55.445 | Both hands are suited hands: QJs and A6s. The two hands share no rank, which makes this a pure matchup of card strength, straight chances and flush chances. The lead is steady rather than large, and the flop still has plenty of say in who wins. Split pots make up 0.48% 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 A6s holds place 31. **Boards behind the percentages: 27,396,864 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QJs | 12,141,000 | 132,000 | 15,124,000 | | A6s | 15,124,000 | 132,000 | 12,141,000 | Exact total: 16 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 A6s 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 | 0.804 | 2.257 | 1.811 | 1.244 | | A6s | 1.244 | 1.811 | 2.257 | 0.804 | 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 Across the five flop textures A6s' equity moves by 23.89 points, from 49.03% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better to 72.92% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower). QJs takes over on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better, so the favorite before the flop is the underdog on those boards. **QJs against A6s by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | QJs wins | Ties | A6s wins | QJs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.867 | 50.932 | 0.085 | 48.983 | 50.974 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.042 | 26.630 | 0.893 | 72.477 | 27.076 | | Two-tone | 46.727 | 45.682 | 0.242 | 54.076 | 45.803 | | Monotone | 5.273 | 45.057 | 3.403 | 51.540 | 46.758 | | Paired | 17.091 | 38.389 | 0.628 | 60.983 | 38.703 | 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 Against one random hand instead, QJs holds 60.26% and A6s holds 59.91%. Facing each other changes that by -15.70 points for QJs and -4.47 points for A6s. **QJs and A6s 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 | 44.555 | 60.259 | -15.704 | 0.73939 | | QJs, rainbow, ten or higher | 50.974 | 60.259 | -9.285 | 0.84592 | | QJs, rainbow, nine or lower | 27.076 | 60.259 | -33.183 | 0.44933 | | QJs, two-tone | 45.803 | 60.259 | -14.456 | 0.76010 | | QJs, monotone | 46.758 | 60.259 | -13.501 | 0.77595 | | QJs, paired | 38.703 | 60.259 | -21.556 | 0.64228 | | A6s, all flops | 55.445 | 59.906 | -4.461 | 0.92553 | | A6s, rainbow, ten or higher | 49.026 | 59.906 | -10.880 | 0.81838 | | A6s, rainbow, nine or lower | 72.924 | 59.906 | +13.018 | 1.21731 | | A6s, two-tone | 54.197 | 59.906 | -5.709 | 0.90470 | | A6s, monotone | 53.242 | 59.906 | -6.664 | 0.88876 | | A6s, paired | 61.297 | 59.906 | +1.391 | 1.02322 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Does suit overlap move the numbers? A6s has 57.16% when the hands share a suit and 54.87% when they do not. A6s does better with a shared suit, by 2.29 points. **QJs against A6s by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | QJs wins | Ties | A6s wins | QJs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 4 | 25.00 | 42.564 | 0.561 | 56.875 | 42.844 | | No shared suit | 12 | 75.00 | 44.897 | 0.457 | 54.646 | 45.126 | ## 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 A6s in the other (0.0010%); with the seats swapped too, 32 (0.0020%). ## A worked example Try it with money: two players each put in $100 and the whole board runs out every possible way. A6s averages $110.88 from the $200, up $10.88; QJs averages $89.12, down $10.88. Scaled to 1,000 deals, that is roughly 552 wins for A6s, 443 for QJs and 5 chopped pots. ## The same matchup from the other side If you came looking for A6s against QJs, the numbers are the same with the hands swapped: 55.44% and 44.56%. ## Keep exploring QsJs against Ah6h 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 Ah6h in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=QsJs&p2=Ah6h) - [QJs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/qjs.md) - [A6s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/a6s.md) - [QJs vs KTo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjs-vs-kto.md) - [QJs vs QTs](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjs-vs-qts.md) - [K9s vs A6s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9s-vs-a6s.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed Method: exact enumeration. The 16 specific deals are grouped by suit pattern, each is run against all 1,712,304 boards, and both seven-card hands are scored. Equity adds half of every tie, and flop textures are tallied over the ten flops inside each board. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [QJs vs KTo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjs-vs-kto.md) - [QJs vs QTs: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjs-vs-qts.md) - [K9s vs A6s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9s-vs-a6s.md)