--- title: "QJs vs QTs: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjs-vs-qts.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjs-vs-qts" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "QJs is a big favorite over QTs before the flop: 69.80% to 30.20% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjs-vs-a4s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjs-vs-a3s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9s-vs-qts.md"] --- # QJs vs QTs: preflop equity QJs is a big favorite over QTs before the flop: 69.80% to 30.20% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. If QJs and QTs get all the chips in before the flop, QJs owns 69.80% of the pot in the long run and QTs owns 30.20%. ## QJs against QTs: the numbers **Exact preflop results for QJs against QTs, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QJs | 66.101 | 7.394 | 26.505 | 69.798 | | QTs | 26.505 | 7.394 | 66.101 | 30.202 | This is a contest between two suited hands, QJs and QTs. Sharing a rank is the signature of a dominated hand, since the weaker hand is usually out-kicked when the shared rank shows up. QJs is the clear favorite, though QTs gets there on roughly one board in 3. Of every 100 boards, about 7.39 are split pots, and the equity figures already include them. In the ranking of all 169 starting hands, QJs is number 28 and QTs is number 34. **Boards behind the percentages: 20,547,648 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QJs | 13,582,000 | 1,519,000 | 5,446,000 | | QTs | 5,446,000 | 1,519,000 | 13,582,000 | Exact total: 12 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 QTs 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 | 2.311 | 1.513 | 3.773 | 0.433 | | QTs | 0.433 | 3.773 | 1.513 | 2.311 | 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 Break the boards down by their first three cards and QJs is strongest on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) (81.78%) and weakest on monotone flops (63.72%). 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 QTs by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | QJs wins | Ties | QTs wins | QJs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.138 | 66.310 | 5.980 | 27.710 | 69.300 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.771 | 79.995 | 3.562 | 16.443 | 81.776 | | Two-tone | 46.543 | 67.026 | 4.887 | 28.087 | 69.469 | | Monotone | 5.215 | 60.477 | 6.493 | 33.030 | 63.723 | | Paired | 17.333 | 58.800 | 18.002 | 23.198 | 67.801 | 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 Against one random hand instead, QJs holds 60.26% and QTs holds 59.47%. Facing each other changes that by +9.54 points for QJs and -29.27 points for QTs. **QJs and QTs 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 | 69.798 | 60.259 | +9.539 | 1.15830 | | QJs, rainbow, ten or higher | 69.300 | 60.259 | +9.041 | 1.15004 | | QJs, rainbow, nine or lower | 81.776 | 60.259 | +21.517 | 1.35708 | | QJs, two-tone | 69.469 | 60.259 | +9.210 | 1.15284 | | QJs, monotone | 63.723 | 60.259 | +3.464 | 1.05749 | | QJs, paired | 67.801 | 60.259 | +7.542 | 1.12516 | | QTs, all flops | 30.202 | 59.468 | -29.266 | 0.50787 | | QTs, rainbow, ten or higher | 30.700 | 59.468 | -28.768 | 0.51624 | | QTs, rainbow, nine or lower | 18.224 | 59.468 | -41.244 | 0.30645 | | QTs, two-tone | 30.531 | 59.468 | -28.937 | 0.51340 | | QTs, monotone | 36.277 | 59.468 | -23.191 | 0.61003 | | QTs, paired | 32.199 | 59.468 | -27.269 | 0.54145 | ## Does a shared suit matter? These two classes cannot share a suit in any legal deal, so there is only one row to read: QJs holds 69.80% in every deal of this matchup. **QJs against QTs by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | QJs wins | Ties | QTs wins | QJs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 0 | 0.00 | not possible | not possible | not possible | not possible | | No shared suit | 12 | 100.00 | 66.101 | 7.394 | 26.505 | 69.798 | ## How often this matchup comes up How often does it happen? 12 of the 1,624,350 ordered deals (0.0007%) are QJs against QTs, and 24 (0.0015%) if either hand may sit in either seat. ## A worked example To see what the equity is worth, imagine $100 each in a $200 pot. QJs is worth $139.60 on average (+$39.60); QTs is worth $60.40 (-$39.60). A thousand deals look like this: QJs takes 661, QTs takes 265, 74 are ties. ## The same matchup from the other side One page covers both views. From QTs' side the equity is 30.20%, and from QJs' side it is 69.80%. ## Keep exploring The calculator link fills in QsJs against QhTh, a deal where the two hands share no suit. Change any card to test your own hand. The neighboring matchups below swap one of the two hands for one of similar strength. - [Open QsJs against QhTh in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=QsJs&p2=QhTh) - [QJs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/qjs.md) - [QTs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/qts.md) - [QJs vs A4s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjs-vs-a4s.md) - [QJs vs A3s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjs-vs-a3s.md) - [K9s vs QTs](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9s-vs-qts.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed We counted every case. Each suit pattern of the 12 specific QJs against QTs 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 A4s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjs-vs-a4s.md) - [QJs vs A3s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjs-vs-a3s.md) - [K9s vs QTs: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9s-vs-qts.md)