--- title: "QQ vs AQo: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-aqo.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-aqo" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "QQ is a big favorite over AQo before the flop: 69.70% to 30.30% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-ajo.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-kqs.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-aqo.md"] --- # QQ vs AQo: preflop equity QQ is a big favorite over AQo before the flop: 69.70% to 30.30% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Dealt all in against each other, QQ takes 69.70% of the pot on average and AQo takes the other 30.30%. ## QQ against AQo: the numbers **Exact preflop results for QQ against AQo, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QQ | 69.049 | 1.299 | 29.652 | 69.699 | | AQo | 29.652 | 1.299 | 69.049 | 30.301 | The matchup pits a pocket pair against an offsuit hand. One hand holds a card of the same rank as the pair, which removes a card the pair needs and makes the pair a bigger favorite. That is a clear edge, 69.70% to 30.30%, but AQo still wins often enough that one hand proves nothing. A split pot comes up on 1.30% of boards, so the wins and the equity differ by half of that. By strength against a random hand, QQ holds place 3 of 169 and AQo holds place 14. **Boards behind the percentages: 61,642,944 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QQ | 42,564,000 | 801,000 | 18,278,000 | | AQo | 18,278,000 | 801,000 | 42,564,000 | 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 AQo 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 | 2.300 | 1.448 | 3.372 | 0.435 | | AQo | 0.435 | 3.372 | 1.448 | 2.300 | 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 By flop texture, QQ's equity runs from 62.43% on monotone flops up to 85.05% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower). 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 AQo by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | QQ wins | Ties | AQo wins | QQ equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.053 | 63.061 | 1.504 | 35.435 | 63.813 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.771 | 84.286 | 1.529 | 14.185 | 85.051 | | Two-tone | 46.215 | 67.637 | 1.439 | 30.924 | 68.356 | | Monotone | 5.130 | 61.445 | 1.977 | 36.578 | 62.434 | | Paired | 17.831 | 76.000 | 0.374 | 23.626 | 76.187 | A rainbow flop shows three suits, a two-tone flop repeats one suit, a monotone flop is a single suit, and a paired flop repeats a rank. ## Compared with a random hand Relative to a random opponent, QQ changes by -10.23 points (baseline 79.93%) and AQo by -34.13 points (baseline 64.43%). **QQ and AQo 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 | 69.699 | 79.925 | -10.226 | 0.87206 | | QQ, rainbow, ten or higher | 63.813 | 79.925 | -16.112 | 0.79841 | | QQ, rainbow, nine or lower | 85.051 | 79.925 | +5.126 | 1.06414 | | QQ, two-tone | 68.356 | 79.925 | -11.569 | 0.85525 | | QQ, monotone | 62.434 | 79.925 | -17.491 | 0.78116 | | QQ, paired | 76.187 | 79.925 | -3.738 | 0.95323 | | AQo, all flops | 30.301 | 64.432 | -34.131 | 0.47028 | | AQo, rainbow, ten or higher | 36.187 | 64.432 | -28.245 | 0.56163 | | AQo, rainbow, nine or lower | 14.949 | 64.432 | -49.483 | 0.23201 | | AQo, two-tone | 31.644 | 64.432 | -32.788 | 0.49112 | | AQo, monotone | 37.566 | 64.432 | -26.866 | 0.58303 | | AQo, paired | 23.813 | 64.432 | -40.619 | 0.36958 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Of the deals of this matchup, 24 share a suit (QQ at 69.64%) and 12 do not (69.83%). The two rows differ by only 0.19 points, so suits barely change this matchup. **QQ against AQo by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | QQ wins | Ties | AQo wins | QQ equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 24 | 66.67 | 68.970 | 1.330 | 29.700 | 69.635 | | No shared suit | 12 | 33.33 | 69.208 | 1.236 | 29.556 | 69.826 | ## How often this matchup comes up The class pair covers 36 combinations of specific cards in a fixed seat order, 0.0022% of 1,624,350, and 72 (0.0044%) in either order. ## A worked example A $100 all-in from each player makes a $200 pot, and the exact equity says QQ gets $139.40 of it on average and AQo gets $60.60. Out of 1,000 deals you should see around 690 outright wins for QQ, 297 for AQo, and 13 split pots. ## The same matchup from the other side If you came looking for AQo against QQ, the numbers are the same with the hands swapped: 30.30% and 69.70%. ## Keep exploring Try QsQh against AdQc in the calculator: the hands share no suit, and every card can be changed. The links after it are the closest matchups in the ranking. - [Open QsQh against AdQc in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=QsQh&p2=AdQc) - [QQ combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/qq.md) - [AQo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/aqo.md) - [QQ vs AJo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-ajo.md) - [QQ vs KQs](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-kqs.md) - [JJ vs AQo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-aqo.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 36 specific deals of QQ against AQo, 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 - [QQ vs AJo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-ajo.md) - [QQ vs KQs: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-kqs.md) - [JJ vs AQo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-aqo.md)