--- title: "QQ vs AQs: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-aqs.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-aqs" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "QQ is a big favorite over AQs before the flop: 65.73% to 34.28% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-ajs.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-ako.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-aqs.md"] --- # QQ vs AQs: preflop equity QQ is a big favorite over AQs before the flop: 65.73% to 34.28% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Dealt all in against each other, QQ takes 65.73% of the pot on average and AQs takes the other 34.27%. ## QQ against AQs: the numbers **Exact preflop results for QQ against AQs, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QQ | 65.104 | 1.242 | 33.654 | 65.725 | | AQs | 33.654 | 1.242 | 65.104 | 34.275 | QQ is a pocket pair and AQs is a suited 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. A lead of 31.46 points is large but not decisive: AQs still takes about 337 of every 1,000 deals. The tie share is 1.24%: on those boards the pot is chopped and neither hand wins outright. QQ ranks number 3 of 169 starting hands, and AQs ranks number 10, by equity against a random hand. **Boards behind the percentages: 20,547,648 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QQ | 13,377,000 | 255,000 | 6,915,000 | | AQs | 6,915,000 | 255,000 | 13,377,000 | The total is exact: 12 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 AQs 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 | 1.918 | 1.536 | 2.971 | 0.521 | | AQs | 0.521 | 2.971 | 1.536 | 1.918 | 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 By flop texture, QQ's equity runs from 61.22% on monotone flops up to 81.74% 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 AQs by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | QQ wins | Ties | AQs wins | QQ equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.011 | 60.746 | 1.455 | 37.799 | 61.474 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.771 | 81.012 | 1.462 | 17.526 | 81.743 | | Two-tone | 46.236 | 62.558 | 1.317 | 36.125 | 63.217 | | Monotone | 5.151 | 60.057 | 2.334 | 37.609 | 61.224 | | Paired | 17.831 | 71.856 | 0.360 | 27.784 | 72.036 | 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 Compared with a random opponent, this matchup shifts QQ from 79.93% by -14.20 points and AQs from 66.21% by -31.94 points. **QQ and AQs 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 | 65.725 | 79.925 | -14.200 | 0.82233 | | QQ, rainbow, ten or higher | 61.474 | 79.925 | -18.451 | 0.76915 | | QQ, rainbow, nine or lower | 81.743 | 79.925 | +1.818 | 1.02275 | | QQ, two-tone | 63.217 | 79.925 | -16.708 | 0.79095 | | QQ, monotone | 61.224 | 79.925 | -18.701 | 0.76602 | | QQ, paired | 72.036 | 79.925 | -7.889 | 0.90129 | | AQs, all flops | 34.275 | 66.209 | -31.934 | 0.51768 | | AQs, rainbow, ten or higher | 38.526 | 66.209 | -27.683 | 0.58188 | | AQs, rainbow, nine or lower | 18.257 | 66.209 | -47.952 | 0.27575 | | AQs, two-tone | 36.783 | 66.209 | -29.426 | 0.55556 | | AQs, monotone | 38.776 | 66.209 | -27.433 | 0.58566 | | AQs, paired | 27.964 | 66.209 | -38.245 | 0.42236 | ## Does a shared suit matter? The hands cannot hold a suit in common here, which leaves a single case and a single number: 65.73% for QQ. **QQ against AQs by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | QQ wins | Ties | AQs wins | QQ equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 0 | 0.00 | not possible | not possible | not possible | not possible | | No shared suit | 12 | 100.00 | 65.104 | 1.242 | 33.654 | 65.725 | ## How often this matchup comes up This page stands for 12 specific-card matchups (0.0007% of 1,624,350 ordered deals), or 24 once you count the seats both ways (0.0015%). ## A worked example A $100 all-in from each player makes a $200 pot, and the exact equity says QQ gets $131.46 of it on average and AQs gets $68.54. Think in thousands: about 651 of 1,000 go to QQ, about 337 go to AQs, and about 12 are chopped. ## The same matchup from the other side If you came looking for AQs against QQ, the numbers are the same with the hands swapped: 34.27% and 65.73%. ## Keep exploring Open the calculator with QsQh against AdQd 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 AdQd in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=QsQh&p2=AdQd) - [QQ combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/qq.md) - [AQs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/aqs.md) - [QQ vs AJs](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-ajs.md) - [QQ vs AKo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-ako.md) - [JJ vs AQs](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-aqs.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 12 specific deals of QQ against AQs, 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 AJs: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-ajs.md) - [QQ vs AKo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-ako.md) - [JJ vs AQs: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-aqs.md)