--- title: "QQ vs A5s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-a5s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-a5s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "QQ is a big favorite over A5s before the flop: 66.71% to 33.29% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-a6s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-kto.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-a5s.md"] --- # QQ vs A5s: preflop equity QQ is a big favorite over A5s before the flop: 66.71% to 33.29% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Dealt all in against each other, QQ takes 66.71% of the pot on average and A5s takes the other 33.29%. ## QQ against A5s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for QQ against A5s, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QQ | 66.497 | 0.424 | 33.079 | 66.709 | | A5s | 33.079 | 0.424 | 66.497 | 33.291 | We compare a pocket pair with a suited hand. One of the other hand's cards outranks the pair and one is below it, which makes this a closer race than a pair against two small cards. That is a clear edge, 66.71% to 33.29%, but A5s still wins often enough that one hand proves nothing. The tie share is 0.42%: on those boards the pot is chopped and neither hand wins outright. Ranked by equity against a random hand, QQ is number 3 of the 169 starting hands and A5s is number 30. **Boards behind the percentages: 41,095,296 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QQ | 27,327,000 | 174,000 | 13,594,000 | | A5s | 13,594,000 | 174,000 | 27,327,000 | 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 A5s 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 | 2.004 | 1.504 | 3.023 | 0.499 | | A5s | 0.499 | 3.023 | 1.504 | 2.004 | The final column gives the least the pot must offer for each unit called for a call to break even at this equity. ## Who is ahead on which flops The flop changes the picture. QQ does best on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower), at 71.16%, and worst on monotone flops, at 62.50%. QQ stays ahead on all five textures. **QQ against A5s by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | QQ wins | Ties | A5s wins | QQ equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.867 | 66.949 | 0.162 | 32.889 | 67.030 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.042 | 70.598 | 1.124 | 28.278 | 71.160 | | Two-tone | 46.545 | 64.661 | 0.354 | 34.985 | 64.838 | | Monotone | 5.212 | 61.286 | 2.435 | 36.279 | 62.503 | | Paired | 17.334 | 70.708 | 0.083 | 29.209 | 70.750 | 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 A random hand would give QQ 79.93% and A5s 59.92%. Against each other the change is -13.22 points for QQ and -26.63 for A5s. **QQ and A5s 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 | 66.709 | 79.925 | -13.216 | 0.83464 | | QQ, rainbow, ten or higher | 67.030 | 79.925 | -12.895 | 0.83866 | | QQ, rainbow, nine or lower | 71.160 | 79.925 | -8.765 | 0.89033 | | QQ, two-tone | 64.838 | 79.925 | -15.087 | 0.81124 | | QQ, monotone | 62.503 | 79.925 | -17.422 | 0.78202 | | QQ, paired | 70.750 | 79.925 | -9.175 | 0.88520 | | A5s, all flops | 33.291 | 59.923 | -26.632 | 0.55556 | | A5s, rainbow, ten or higher | 32.970 | 59.923 | -26.953 | 0.55021 | | A5s, rainbow, nine or lower | 28.840 | 59.923 | -31.083 | 0.48128 | | A5s, two-tone | 35.162 | 59.923 | -24.761 | 0.58679 | | A5s, monotone | 37.497 | 59.923 | -22.426 | 0.62575 | | A5s, paired | 29.250 | 59.923 | -30.673 | 0.48813 | ## Does a shared suit matter? When the hands share a suit, QQ holds 66.99%; when they do not, it holds 66.43%. QQ does better with a shared suit, by 0.56 points. **QQ against A5s by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | QQ wins | Ties | A5s wins | QQ equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 12 | 50.00 | 66.758 | 0.466 | 32.776 | 66.991 | | No shared suit | 12 | 50.00 | 66.236 | 0.382 | 33.382 | 66.427 | ## How often this matchup comes up You will meet this exact matchup 0.0030% of the time in a random heads-up deal: 48 of 1,624,350, counting either seat order. ## A worked example Worked example: both players commit $100, so $200 sits in the middle. Over every board, QQ's average share is $133.42 (a gain of $33.42) and A5s' is $66.58 (a loss of $33.42). Run 1,000 deals and the tally comes out near 665 for QQ, 331 for A5s and 4 ties. ## The same matchup from the other side A5s versus QQ is this same page seen from the other hand: 33.29% for A5s, 66.71% for QQ. ## Keep exploring Open the calculator with QsQh against Ad5d 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 Ad5d in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=QsQh&p2=Ad5d) - [QQ combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/qq.md) - [A5s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/a5s.md) - [QQ vs A6s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-a6s.md) - [QQ vs KTo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-kto.md) - [JJ vs A5s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-a5s.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed The page is built from a full enumeration: 1,712,304 boards, every suit pattern of the 24 specific deals, both seven-card hands evaluated. A tie is worth half a win to each hand, and a board is tallied under each of its ten possible flops for the texture rows. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [QQ vs A6s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-a6s.md) - [QQ vs KTo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-kto.md) - [JJ vs A5s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-a5s.md)