--- title: "QQ vs 44: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-44.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-44" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "QQ is a big favorite over 44 before the flop: 80.96% to 19.04% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-j9s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-jto.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-44.md"] --- # QQ vs 44: preflop equity QQ is a big favorite over 44 before the flop: 80.96% to 19.04% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Counting every board, the equity split is 80.96% for QQ and 19.04% for 44, so QQ leads by 61.92 points. ## QQ against 44: the numbers **Exact preflop results for QQ against 44, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QQ | 80.739 | 0.440 | 18.821 | 80.959 | | 44 | 18.821 | 0.440 | 80.739 | 19.041 | Here pocket pairs face each other, QQ on one side and 44 on the other. Two pairs against each other is a one-way street: the lower pair needs one of its two remaining cards. QQ is a big favorite here before anyone sees a flop. A split pot comes up on 0.44% of boards, so the wins and the equity differ by half of that. Among the 169 starting hands, QQ is number 3 and 44 is number 48 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 | 49,770,000 | 271,000 | 11,602,000 | | 44 | 11,602,000 | 271,000 | 49,770,000 | Exact total: 36 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. **QQ against 44 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 | 4.252 | 1.239 | 5.313 | 0.235 | | 44 | 0.235 | 5.313 | 1.239 | 4.252 | 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 QQ is strongest on paired flops (86.70%) and weakest on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) (66.81%). 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 44 by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | QQ wins | Ties | 44 wins | QQ equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 24.595 | 83.731 | 0.219 | 16.050 | 83.840 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 6.314 | 66.264 | 1.101 | 32.635 | 66.814 | | Two-tone | 46.363 | 79.604 | 0.383 | 20.013 | 79.796 | | Monotone | 5.152 | 74.416 | 2.027 | 23.557 | 75.430 | | Paired | 17.576 | 86.602 | 0.193 | 13.205 | 86.698 | Read the flop types this way: rainbow has three suits, two-tone has two cards of one suit, monotone has three, and paired repeats a rank. ## Compared with a random hand A random hand would give QQ 79.93% and 44 57.02%. Against each other the change is +1.03 points for QQ and -37.98 for 44. **QQ and 44 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 | 80.959 | 79.925 | +1.034 | 1.01294 | | QQ, rainbow, ten or higher | 83.840 | 79.925 | +3.915 | 1.04898 | | QQ, rainbow, nine or lower | 66.814 | 79.925 | -13.111 | 0.83596 | | QQ, two-tone | 79.796 | 79.925 | -0.129 | 0.99839 | | QQ, monotone | 75.430 | 79.925 | -4.495 | 0.94376 | | QQ, paired | 86.698 | 79.925 | +6.773 | 1.08474 | | 44, all flops | 19.041 | 57.023 | -37.982 | 0.33392 | | 44, rainbow, ten or higher | 16.160 | 57.023 | -40.863 | 0.28339 | | 44, rainbow, nine or lower | 33.186 | 57.023 | -23.837 | 0.58198 | | 44, two-tone | 20.204 | 57.023 | -36.819 | 0.35431 | | 44, monotone | 24.570 | 57.023 | -32.453 | 0.43088 | | 44, paired | 13.302 | 57.023 | -43.721 | 0.23327 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Looking only at deals where the hands share a suit, QQ has 81.09%; looking only at deals where they do not, 80.30%. QQ does better with a shared suit, by 0.79 points. **QQ against 44 by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | QQ wins | Ties | 44 wins | QQ equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 30 | 83.33 | 80.865 | 0.453 | 18.682 | 81.091 | | No shared suit | 6 | 16.67 | 80.113 | 0.372 | 19.515 | 80.299 | ## How often this matchup comes up This page stands for 36 specific-card matchups (0.0022% of 1,624,350 ordered deals), or 72 once you count the seats both ways (0.0044%). ## A worked example Worked example: both players commit $100, so $200 sits in the middle. Over every board, QQ's average share is $161.92 (a gain of $61.92) and 44's is $38.08 (a loss of $61.92). Per 1,000 deals: QQ wins about 807, 44 wins about 188, and about 5 end in a split pot. ## The same matchup from the other side One page covers both views. From 44's side the equity is 19.04%, and from QQ's side it is 80.96%. ## Keep exploring Open the calculator with QsQh against 4d4c already entered, a deal with no shared suit, and change any card to try your own hand. The matchups after it each swap one hand for a nearby one in the ranking. - [Open QsQh against 4d4c in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=QsQh&p2=4d4c) - [QQ combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/qq.md) - [44 combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/44.md) - [QQ vs J9s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-j9s.md) - [QQ vs JTo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-jto.md) - [JJ vs 44](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-44.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 44 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 J9s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-j9s.md) - [QQ vs JTo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-jto.md) - [JJ vs 44: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-44.md)