--- title: "QJs vs T9o: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjs-vs-t9o.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjs-vs-t9o" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "QJs is a big favorite over T9o before the flop: 67.35% to 32.65% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjs-vs-98s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjs-vs-22.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9s-vs-t9o.md"] --- # QJs vs T9o: preflop equity QJs is a big favorite over T9o before the flop: 67.35% to 32.65% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Averaged over every possible board, QJs is ahead of T9o by 34.70 points of equity, 67.35% to 32.65%. ## QJs against T9o: the numbers **Exact preflop results for QJs against T9o, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QJs | 66.895 | 0.915 | 32.190 | 67.352 | | T9o | 32.190 | 0.915 | 66.895 | 32.648 | The first hand is a suited hand; the second is an offsuit hand. With no overlap in ranks, every card that pairs one hand is a card that does not pair the other. QJs is the clear favorite, though T9o gets there on roughly one board in 3. Of every 100 boards, about 0.92 are split pots, and the equity figures already include them. Place 28 of 169 belongs to QJs and place 78 belongs to T9o in the ranking against a random hand. **Boards behind the percentages: 82,190,592 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QJs | 54,981,000 | 752,000 | 26,457,000 | | T9o | 26,457,000 | 752,000 | 54,981,000 | The board total is exact, 48 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 T9o 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 | 2.063 | 1.495 | 3.107 | 0.485 | | T9o | 0.485 | 3.107 | 1.495 | 2.063 | 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 QJs' equity moves by 13.16 points, from 56.75% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) to 69.91% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better. QJs stays ahead on all five textures. **QJs against T9o by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | QJs wins | Ties | T9o wins | QJs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.988 | 69.688 | 0.451 | 29.861 | 69.913 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.042 | 56.380 | 0.729 | 42.891 | 56.745 | | Two-tone | 46.667 | 67.485 | 0.482 | 32.033 | 67.726 | | Monotone | 5.212 | 61.433 | 2.540 | 36.027 | 62.703 | | Paired | 17.091 | 67.364 | 2.329 | 30.307 | 68.528 | Flop types: rainbow means three different suits, two-tone means one suit twice, monotone means one suit three times, paired means a repeated rank. ## Compared with a random hand Start from the random-hand figures, 60.26% for QJs and 51.53% for T9o. This opponent changes them by +7.09 and -18.88 points. **QJs and T9o 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 | 67.352 | 60.259 | +7.093 | 1.11771 | | QJs, rainbow, ten or higher | 69.913 | 60.259 | +9.654 | 1.16021 | | QJs, rainbow, nine or lower | 56.745 | 60.259 | -3.514 | 0.94169 | | QJs, two-tone | 67.726 | 60.259 | +7.467 | 1.12392 | | QJs, monotone | 62.703 | 60.259 | +2.444 | 1.04056 | | QJs, paired | 68.528 | 60.259 | +8.269 | 1.13722 | | T9o, all flops | 32.648 | 51.532 | -18.884 | 0.63355 | | T9o, rainbow, ten or higher | 30.087 | 51.532 | -21.445 | 0.58385 | | T9o, rainbow, nine or lower | 43.255 | 51.532 | -8.277 | 0.83938 | | T9o, two-tone | 32.274 | 51.532 | -19.258 | 0.62629 | | T9o, monotone | 37.297 | 51.532 | -14.235 | 0.72376 | | T9o, paired | 31.472 | 51.532 | -20.060 | 0.61073 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Does suit overlap move the numbers? QJs has 67.21% when the hands share a suit and 67.49% when they do not. QJs does better with no shared suit, by 0.28 points. **QJs against T9o by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | QJs wins | Ties | T9o wins | QJs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 24 | 50.00 | 66.737 | 0.955 | 32.308 | 67.214 | | No shared suit | 24 | 50.00 | 67.053 | 0.875 | 32.072 | 67.491 | ## How often this matchup comes up How often does it happen? 48 of the 1,624,350 ordered deals (0.0030%) are QJs against T9o, and 96 (0.0059%) 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 $134.70 on average (+$34.70); T9o is worth $65.30 (-$34.70). Out of 1,000 deals you should see around 669 outright wins for QJs, 322 for T9o, and 9 split pots. ## The same matchup from the other side The reversed view, T9o against QJs, shows 32.65% for T9o and 67.35% for QJs. It is the same count, so it redirects here. ## Keep exploring The calculator link fills in QsJs against Th9d, 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 Th9d in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=QsJs&p2=Th9d) - [QJs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/qjs.md) - [T9o combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/t9o.md) - [QJs vs 98s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjs-vs-98s.md) - [QJs vs 22](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjs-vs-22.md) - [K9s vs T9o](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9s-vs-t9o.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed Each figure is a complete count over boards. Take the 48 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 98s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjs-vs-98s.md) - [QJs vs 22: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjs-vs-22.md) - [K9s vs T9o: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9s-vs-t9o.md)