--- title: "QJs vs QJo: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjs-vs-qjo.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjs-vs-qjo" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "QJs vs QJo is close to a coin flip before the flop: 52.49% to 47.51% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjs-vs-k9o.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjs-vs-q9s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9s-vs-qjo.md"] --- # QJs vs QJo: preflop equity QJs vs QJo is close to a coin flip before the flop: 52.49% to 47.51% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. In equity, QJs against QJo stands at 52.49% to 47.51%, a gap of 4.98 points. ## QJs against QJo: the numbers **Exact preflop results for QJs against QJo, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QJs | 7.158 | 90.669 | 2.173 | 52.492 | | QJo | 2.173 | 90.669 | 7.158 | 47.508 | We compare a suited hand with an offsuit hand. The cards are the same ranks, so any difference in equity comes from suitedness alone. QJs leads by less than 5 points of equity, so the result of any one deal is close to a toss-up. 90.67% of boards are ties, so the equity of each hand is its win rate plus half of that. In the ranking of all 169 starting hands, QJs is number 28 and QJo is number 39. **Boards behind the percentages: 41,095,296 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QJs | 2,942,000 | 37,261,000 | 893,000 | | QJo | 893,000 | 37,261,000 | 2,942,000 | The board total is exact, 24 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 QJo 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 | 1.105 | 13.970 | 46.019 | 0.905 | | QJo | 0.905 | 46.019 | 13.970 | 1.105 | 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 The flop changes the picture. QJs does best on two-tone flops, at 53.28%, and worst on monotone flops, at 50.28%. QJs stays ahead on all five textures. **QJs against QJo by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | QJs wins | Ties | QJo wins | QJs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.138 | 3.265 | 96.735 | 0.000 | 51.633 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.771 | 3.409 | 96.591 | 0.000 | 51.705 | | Two-tone | 46.363 | 8.829 | 88.901 | 2.270 | 53.280 | | Monotone | 5.152 | 18.513 | 63.542 | 17.945 | 50.284 | | Paired | 17.576 | 6.201 | 92.681 | 1.118 | 52.541 | 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 Start from the random-hand figures, 60.26% for QJs and 58.14% for QJo. This opponent changes them by -7.77 and -10.63 points. **QJs and QJo 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 | 52.492 | 60.259 | -7.767 | 0.87111 | | QJs, rainbow, ten or higher | 51.633 | 60.259 | -8.626 | 0.85685 | | QJs, rainbow, nine or lower | 51.705 | 60.259 | -8.554 | 0.85805 | | QJs, two-tone | 53.280 | 60.259 | -6.979 | 0.88418 | | QJs, monotone | 50.284 | 60.259 | -9.975 | 0.83446 | | QJs, paired | 52.541 | 60.259 | -7.718 | 0.87192 | | QJo, all flops | 47.508 | 58.135 | -10.627 | 0.81720 | | QJo, rainbow, ten or higher | 48.367 | 58.135 | -9.768 | 0.83198 | | QJo, rainbow, nine or lower | 48.295 | 58.135 | -9.840 | 0.83074 | | QJo, two-tone | 46.720 | 58.135 | -11.415 | 0.80365 | | QJo, monotone | 49.716 | 58.135 | -8.419 | 0.85518 | | QJo, paired | 47.459 | 58.135 | -10.676 | 0.81636 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Suits do not split this matchup, because no legal deal has the hands holding the same suit. **QJs against QJo by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | QJs wins | Ties | QJo wins | QJs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 0 | 0.00 | not possible | not possible | not possible | not possible | | No shared suit | 24 | 100.00 | 7.158 | 90.669 | 2.173 | 52.492 | ## How often this matchup comes up QJs against QJo is made up of 24 specific-card matchups in one seat order, 0.0015% of the 1,624,350 ordered deals, and 48 counting both seat orders, 0.0030%. ## A worked example Take a $200 pot built from $100 each. QJs' equity of 52.49% is worth $104.98, a $4.98 edge, and QJo's 47.51% is worth $95.02, which is $4.98 under its stake. A thousand deals look like this: QJs takes 71, QJo takes 22, 907 are ties. ## The same matchup from the other side Read it from the other side: QJo against QJs is the same matchup with the numbers swapped, so QJo holds 47.51% and QJs holds 52.49%. That address sends you back to this page. ## Keep exploring Try QsJs against QhJd 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. - [Open QsJs against QhJd in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=QsJs&p2=QhJd) - [QJs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/qjs.md) - [QJo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/qjo.md) - [QJs vs K9o](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjs-vs-k9o.md) - [QJs vs Q9s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjs-vs-q9s.md) - [K9s vs QJo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9s-vs-qjo.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed We counted every case. Each suit pattern of the 24 specific QJs against QJo 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 K9o: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjs-vs-k9o.md) - [QJs vs Q9s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjs-vs-q9s.md) - [K9s vs QJo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9s-vs-qjo.md)