--- title: "QQ vs 22: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-22.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-22" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "QQ is a big favorite over 22 before the flop: 81.85% to 18.15% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-97s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-87s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-22.md"] --- # QQ vs 22: preflop equity QQ is a big favorite over 22 before the flop: 81.85% to 18.15% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Averaged over every possible board, QQ is ahead of 22 by 63.70 points of equity, 81.85% to 18.15%. ## QQ against 22: the numbers **Exact preflop results for QQ against 22, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QQ | 81.584 | 0.527 | 17.889 | 81.847 | | 22 | 17.889 | 0.527 | 81.584 | 18.153 | The matchup is pocket pairs on both sides, QQ against 22. Two pairs against each other is a one-way street: the lower pair needs one of its two remaining cards. That is a heavy lead: 22 needs the board to help it on most runouts and still falls behind far more often than not. About 0.53% of boards chop the pot, which is why equity sits slightly above the win figure for both hands. Among the 169 starting hands, QQ is number 3 and 22 is number 87 by strength against a random hand. **Boards behind the percentages: 61,642,944 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QQ | 50,291,000 | 325,000 | 11,027,000 | | 22 | 11,027,000 | 325,000 | 50,291,000 | The total is exact: 36 specific deals times 1,712,304 boards. The three counts are approximate, worked out from the percentages to five decimals and rounded to the nearest thousand. **QQ against 22 read as odds** | Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QQ | 4.509 | 1.226 | 5.590 | 0.222 | | 22 | 0.222 | 5.590 | 1.226 | 4.509 | 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 QQ prefers paired flops, where it holds 87.15%, and likes low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) least, where it holds 69.77%. QQ stays ahead on all five textures, but the swing between them is large, so how the flop looks matters a great deal. **QQ against 22 by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | QQ wins | Ties | 22 wins | QQ equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 24.595 | 84.230 | 0.219 | 15.551 | 84.339 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 6.314 | 69.039 | 1.456 | 29.505 | 69.767 | | Two-tone | 46.363 | 80.533 | 0.452 | 19.015 | 80.759 | | Monotone | 5.152 | 75.123 | 2.674 | 22.203 | 76.460 | | Paired | 17.576 | 87.052 | 0.193 | 12.755 | 87.149 | 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 Each hand has a baseline against a random hand: 79.93% for QQ, 50.33% for 22. Here the change is +1.92 and -32.18 points. **QQ and 22 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QQ, all flops | 81.847 | 79.925 | +1.922 | 1.02405 | | QQ, rainbow, ten or higher | 84.339 | 79.925 | +4.414 | 1.05523 | | QQ, rainbow, nine or lower | 69.767 | 79.925 | -10.158 | 0.87291 | | QQ, two-tone | 80.759 | 79.925 | +0.834 | 1.01043 | | QQ, monotone | 76.460 | 79.925 | -3.465 | 0.95665 | | QQ, paired | 87.149 | 79.925 | +7.224 | 1.09038 | | 22, all flops | 18.153 | 50.334 | -32.181 | 0.36065 | | 22, rainbow, ten or higher | 15.661 | 50.334 | -34.673 | 0.31114 | | 22, rainbow, nine or lower | 30.233 | 50.334 | -20.101 | 0.60065 | | 22, two-tone | 19.241 | 50.334 | -31.093 | 0.38227 | | 22, monotone | 23.540 | 50.334 | -26.794 | 0.46768 | | 22, paired | 12.851 | 50.334 | -37.483 | 0.25531 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Split by suits, the deals give QQ 81.98% when the hands overlap in a suit and 81.19% when they do not. QQ does better with a shared suit, by 0.79 points. **QQ against 22 by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | QQ wins | Ties | 22 wins | QQ equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 30 | 83.33 | 81.713 | 0.534 | 17.753 | 81.980 | | No shared suit | 6 | 16.67 | 80.941 | 0.490 | 18.569 | 81.186 | ## How often this matchup comes up How often does it happen? 36 of the 1,624,350 ordered deals (0.0022%) are QQ against 22, and 72 (0.0044%) if either hand may sit in either seat. ## A worked example With $100 from each side, the $200 pot is split on average as $163.70 for QQ and $36.30 for 22; the first side gains $63.70 per all-in and the second gives up $63.70. Scaled to 1,000 deals, that is roughly 816 wins for QQ, 179 for 22 and 5 chopped pots. ## The same matchup from the other side Read it from the other side: 22 against QQ is the same matchup with the numbers swapped, so 22 holds 18.15% and QQ holds 81.85%. That address sends you back to this page. ## Keep exploring The calculator link fills in QsQh against 2d2c, 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 QsQh against 2d2c in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=QsQh&p2=2d2c) - [QQ combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/qq.md) - [22 combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/22.md) - [QQ vs 97s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-97s.md) - [QQ vs 87s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-87s.md) - [JJ vs 22](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-22.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed We counted every case. Each suit pattern of the 36 specific QQ against 22 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 - [QQ vs 97s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-97s.md) - [QQ vs 87s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-87s.md) - [JJ vs 22: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-22.md)