--- title: "QJs vs JTs: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjs-vs-jts.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjs-vs-jts" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "QJs is a big favorite over JTs before the flop: 70.30% to 29.70% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjs-vs-a2s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjs-vs-qto.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9s-vs-jts.md"] --- # QJs vs JTs: preflop equity QJs is a big favorite over JTs before the flop: 70.30% to 29.70% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. If QJs and JTs get all the chips in before the flop, QJs owns 70.30% of the pot in the long run and JTs owns 29.70%. ## QJs against JTs: the numbers **Exact preflop results for QJs against JTs, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QJs | 68.489 | 3.622 | 27.889 | 70.300 | | JTs | 27.889 | 3.622 | 68.489 | 29.700 | Here suited hands face each other, QJs on one side and JTs on the other. Sharing a rank is the signature of a dominated hand, since the weaker hand is usually out-kicked when the shared rank shows up. A lead of 40.60 points is large but not decisive: JTs still takes about 279 of every 1,000 deals. 3.62% of boards are ties, so the equity of each hand is its win rate plus half of that. QJs ranks number 28 of 169 starting hands, and JTs ranks number 45, by equity against a random hand. **Boards behind the percentages: 20,547,648 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QJs | 14,073,000 | 744,000 | 5,731,000 | | JTs | 5,731,000 | 744,000 | 14,073,000 | 12 specific deals times 1,712,304 boards gives the exact total. The won, tied and lost counts are approximations from the five-decimal percentages, rounded to the nearest thousand. **QJs against JTs 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 | 2.367 | 1.460 | 3.586 | 0.422 | | JTs | 0.422 | 3.586 | 1.460 | 2.367 | 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 The flop changes the picture. QJs does best on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower), at 79.01%, and worst on monotone flops, at 63.47%. QJs stays ahead on all five textures, but the swing between them is large, so how the flop looks matters a great deal. **QJs against JTs by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | QJs wins | Ties | JTs wins | QJs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.138 | 67.782 | 3.647 | 28.571 | 69.606 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.771 | 78.515 | 0.987 | 20.498 | 79.009 | | Two-tone | 46.543 | 67.762 | 2.741 | 29.497 | 69.133 | | Monotone | 5.215 | 60.885 | 5.162 | 33.953 | 63.466 | | Paired | 17.333 | 69.179 | 6.673 | 24.148 | 72.516 | Read the flop types this way: rainbow has three suits, two-tone has two cards of one suit, monotone has three, and paired repeats a rank. ## Compared with a random hand Against one random hand instead, QJs holds 60.26% and JTs holds 57.53%. Facing each other changes that by +10.04 points for QJs and -27.83 points for JTs. **QJs and JTs 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 | 70.300 | 60.259 | +10.041 | 1.16663 | | QJs, rainbow, ten or higher | 69.606 | 60.259 | +9.347 | 1.15511 | | QJs, rainbow, nine or lower | 79.009 | 60.259 | +18.750 | 1.31116 | | QJs, two-tone | 69.133 | 60.259 | +8.874 | 1.14726 | | QJs, monotone | 63.466 | 60.259 | +3.207 | 1.05322 | | QJs, paired | 72.516 | 60.259 | +12.257 | 1.20341 | | JTs, all flops | 29.700 | 57.528 | -27.828 | 0.51627 | | JTs, rainbow, ten or higher | 30.394 | 57.528 | -27.134 | 0.52833 | | JTs, rainbow, nine or lower | 20.991 | 57.528 | -36.537 | 0.36488 | | JTs, two-tone | 30.867 | 57.528 | -26.661 | 0.53656 | | JTs, monotone | 36.534 | 57.528 | -20.994 | 0.63506 | | JTs, paired | 27.484 | 57.528 | -30.044 | 0.47775 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Every legal deal of QJs against JTs leaves the hands with no suit in common, so the suit split does not apply here. **QJs against JTs by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | QJs wins | Ties | JTs wins | QJs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 0 | 0.00 | not possible | not possible | not possible | not possible | | No shared suit | 12 | 100.00 | 68.489 | 3.622 | 27.889 | 70.300 | ## How often this matchup comes up Out of 1,624,350 ways to deal two seats two cards each, 12 are QJs in one seat and JTs in the other (0.0007%); with the seats swapped too, 24 (0.0015%). ## A worked example To see what the equity is worth, imagine $100 each in a $200 pot. QJs is worth $140.60 on average (+$40.60); JTs is worth $59.40 (-$40.60). A thousand deals look like this: QJs takes 685, JTs takes 279, 36 are ties. ## The same matchup from the other side Swap the hands and you get JTs with 29.70% against QJs with 70.30%. We keep one page per matchup, with the better-ranked hand first. ## Keep exploring QsJs against JhTh 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 JhTh in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=QsJs&p2=JhTh) - [QJs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/qjs.md) - [JTs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/jts.md) - [QJs vs A2s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjs-vs-a2s.md) - [QJs vs QTo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjs-vs-qto.md) - [K9s vs JTs](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9s-vs-jts.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed Each figure is a complete count over boards. Take the 12 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. ## Related - [QJs vs A2s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjs-vs-a2s.md) - [QJs vs QTo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjs-vs-qto.md) - [K9s vs JTs: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9s-vs-jts.md)