--- title: "QQ vs 43s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-43s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-43s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "QQ is a big favorite over 43s before the flop: 79.54% to 20.46% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-43s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-53s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-43s.md"] --- # QQ vs 43s: preflop equity QQ is a big favorite over 43s before the flop: 79.54% to 20.46% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. If QQ and 43s get all the chips in before the flop, QQ owns 79.54% of the pot in the long run and 43s owns 20.46%. ## QQ against 43s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for QQ against 43s, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QQ | 79.306 | 0.471 | 20.223 | 79.541 | | 43s | 20.223 | 0.471 | 79.306 | 20.459 | QQ, a pocket pair, plays 43s, a suited hand. The pair outranks both of the other hand's cards, which is why the pair is a strong favorite. QQ is the clear favorite, though 43s gets there on roughly one board in 5. 0.47% of boards are ties, so the equity of each hand is its win rate plus half of that. Place 3 of 169 belongs to QQ and place 150 belongs to 43s in the ranking against a random hand. **Boards behind the percentages: 41,095,296 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QQ | 32,591,000 | 194,000 | 8,311,000 | | 43s | 8,311,000 | 194,000 | 32,591,000 | The total is exact: 24 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 43s 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 | 3.888 | 1.261 | 4.945 | 0.257 | | 43s | 0.257 | 4.945 | 1.261 | 3.888 | 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 QQ prefers rainbow flops topped by a ten or better, where it holds 84.49%, and likes low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) least, where it holds 68.34%. 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 43s by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | QQ wins | Ties | 43s wins | QQ equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 24.595 | 84.386 | 0.212 | 15.402 | 84.492 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 6.314 | 67.745 | 1.191 | 31.064 | 68.340 | | Two-tone | 46.545 | 77.487 | 0.383 | 22.130 | 77.678 | | Monotone | 5.212 | 72.909 | 2.586 | 24.505 | 74.202 | | Paired | 17.334 | 83.115 | 0.177 | 16.708 | 83.204 | 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, QQ holds 79.93% and 43s holds 38.64%. Facing each other changes that by -0.39 points for QQ and -18.18 points for 43s. **QQ and 43s 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 | 79.541 | 79.925 | -0.384 | 0.99520 | | QQ, rainbow, ten or higher | 84.492 | 79.925 | +4.567 | 1.05714 | | QQ, rainbow, nine or lower | 68.340 | 79.925 | -11.585 | 0.85505 | | QQ, two-tone | 77.678 | 79.925 | -2.247 | 0.97189 | | QQ, monotone | 74.202 | 79.925 | -5.723 | 0.92840 | | QQ, paired | 83.204 | 79.925 | +3.279 | 1.04103 | | 43s, all flops | 20.459 | 38.642 | -18.183 | 0.52945 | | 43s, rainbow, ten or higher | 15.508 | 38.642 | -23.134 | 0.40132 | | 43s, rainbow, nine or lower | 31.660 | 38.642 | -6.982 | 0.81932 | | 43s, two-tone | 22.322 | 38.642 | -16.320 | 0.57766 | | 43s, monotone | 25.798 | 38.642 | -12.844 | 0.66762 | | 43s, paired | 16.796 | 38.642 | -21.846 | 0.43466 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Of the deals of this matchup, 12 share a suit (QQ at 80.13%) and 12 do not (78.96%). QQ does better with a shared suit, by 1.17 points. **QQ against 43s by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | QQ wins | Ties | 43s wins | QQ equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 12 | 50.00 | 79.872 | 0.509 | 19.619 | 80.126 | | No shared suit | 12 | 50.00 | 78.739 | 0.433 | 20.828 | 78.956 | ## How often this matchup comes up QQ against 43s 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 Put $100 each into a $200 pot and deal every board once: QQ averages $159.08 back, ahead of its $100 by $59.08, while 43s averages $40.92, short of its $100 by $59.08. A thousand deals look like this: QQ takes 793, 43s takes 202, 5 are ties. ## The same matchup from the other side The mirror image, 43s against QQ, is 20.46% to 79.54%, and its address redirects to this page. ## Keep exploring QsQh against 4d3d 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 QsQh against 4d3d in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=QsQh&p2=4d3d) - [QQ combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/qq.md) - [43s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/43s.md) - [JJ vs 43s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-43s.md) - [QQ vs 53s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-53s.md) - [KK vs 43s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-43s.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed All 1,712,304 five-card boards are dealt for every suit pattern among the 24 specific deals of QQ against 43s, and both hands are scored on each. That is a full count, so the percentages are exact. Ties are half a win each, and each board appears once per flop it contains. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [JJ vs 43s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-43s.md) - [QQ vs 53s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-53s.md) - [KK vs 43s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-43s.md)