--- title: "QQ vs AJo: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-ajo.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-ajo" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "QQ is a big favorite over AJo before the flop: 71.65% to 28.35% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-kqs.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-66.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-ajo.md"] --- # QQ vs AJo: preflop equity QQ is a big favorite over AJo before the flop: 71.65% to 28.35% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Counting every board, the equity split is 71.65% for QQ and 28.35% for AJo, so QQ leads by 43.30 points. ## QQ against AJo: the numbers **Exact preflop results for QQ against AJo, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QQ | 71.450 | 0.399 | 28.151 | 71.650 | | AJo | 28.151 | 0.399 | 71.450 | 28.350 | QQ is a pocket pair and AJo is an offsuit hand. The pair sits between the other hand's two cards: one is higher and one is lower, so the pair is exposed to the higher card. A lead of 43.30 points is large but not decisive: AJo still takes about 282 of every 1,000 deals. The tie share is 0.40%: on those boards the pot is chopped and neither hand wins outright. For context, QQ sits at number 3 of 169 starting hands and AJo at number 15 when each is run against a random hand. **Boards behind the percentages: 123,285,888 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QQ | 88,088,000 | 492,000 | 34,706,000 | | AJo | 34,706,000 | 492,000 | 88,088,000 | The total is exact: 72 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 AJo 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 | 2.527 | 1.400 | 3.552 | 0.396 | | AJo | 0.396 | 3.552 | 1.400 | 2.527 | 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 QQ prefers low rainbow flops (nine high or lower), where it holds 84.43%, and likes monotone flops least, where it holds 66.91%. 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 AJo by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | QQ wins | Ties | AJo wins | QQ equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.260 | 67.085 | 0.107 | 32.808 | 67.139 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.771 | 83.806 | 1.241 | 14.953 | 84.426 | | Two-tone | 46.485 | 70.771 | 0.374 | 28.855 | 70.958 | | Monotone | 5.151 | 66.041 | 1.743 | 32.216 | 66.912 | | Paired | 17.333 | 75.195 | 0.083 | 24.722 | 75.237 | 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 The table below sets each hand against its own random-hand baseline: a change of -8.28 points for QQ, from 79.93%, and -35.21 for AJo, from 63.56%. **QQ and AJo 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 | 71.650 | 79.925 | -8.275 | 0.89647 | | QQ, rainbow, ten or higher | 67.139 | 79.925 | -12.786 | 0.84003 | | QQ, rainbow, nine or lower | 84.426 | 79.925 | +4.501 | 1.05632 | | QQ, two-tone | 70.958 | 79.925 | -8.967 | 0.88781 | | QQ, monotone | 66.912 | 79.925 | -13.013 | 0.83718 | | QQ, paired | 75.237 | 79.925 | -4.688 | 0.94135 | | AJo, all flops | 28.350 | 63.563 | -35.213 | 0.44601 | | AJo, rainbow, ten or higher | 32.861 | 63.563 | -30.702 | 0.51698 | | AJo, rainbow, nine or lower | 15.574 | 63.563 | -47.989 | 0.24502 | | AJo, two-tone | 29.042 | 63.563 | -34.521 | 0.45690 | | AJo, monotone | 33.088 | 63.563 | -30.475 | 0.52055 | | AJo, paired | 24.763 | 63.563 | -38.800 | 0.38958 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Of the deals of this matchup, 60 share a suit (QQ at 71.69%) and 12 do not (71.47%). The two rows differ by only 0.22 points, so suits barely change this matchup. **QQ against AJo by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | QQ wins | Ties | AJo wins | QQ equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 60 | 83.33 | 71.478 | 0.415 | 28.107 | 71.685 | | No shared suit | 12 | 16.67 | 71.312 | 0.320 | 28.368 | 71.472 | ## How often this matchup comes up Exactly 72 specific deals fit this matchup in one seat order, which is 0.0044% of 1,624,350; both orders together give 144, or 0.0089%. ## A worked example Take a $200 pot built from $100 each. QQ's equity of 71.65% is worth $143.30, a $43.30 edge, and AJo's 28.35% is worth $56.70, which is $43.30 under its stake. Think in thousands: about 714 of 1,000 go to QQ, about 282 go to AJo, and about 4 are chopped. ## The same matchup from the other side Read it from the other side: AJo against QQ is the same matchup with the numbers swapped, so AJo holds 28.35% and QQ holds 71.65%. That address sends you back to this page. ## Keep exploring Open the calculator with QsQh against AdJc 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 AdJc in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=QsQh&p2=AdJc) - [QQ combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/qq.md) - [AJo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/ajo.md) - [QQ vs KQs](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-kqs.md) - [QQ vs 66](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-66.md) - [JJ vs AJo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-ajo.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed The figures are counted, not estimated: 1,712,304 boards for every suit pattern of the 72 specific deals, with both seven-card hands compared each time. Equity gives half a win for a tie. For the flop rows, a board is counted once under each of the ten flops inside it. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [QQ vs KQs: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-kqs.md) - [QQ vs 66: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-66.md) - [JJ vs AJo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-ajo.md)