--- title: "QQ vs JTs: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-jts.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-jts" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "QQ is a big favorite over JTs before the flop: 81.67% to 18.33% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-a2s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-qto.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-jts.md"] --- # QQ vs JTs: preflop equity QQ is a big favorite over JTs before the flop: 81.67% to 18.33% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Averaged over every possible board, QQ is ahead of JTs by 63.34 points of equity, 81.67% to 18.33%. ## QQ against JTs: the numbers **Exact preflop results for QQ against JTs, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QQ | 81.469 | 0.402 | 18.129 | 81.670 | | JTs | 18.129 | 0.402 | 81.469 | 18.330 | We compare a pocket pair with a suited hand. A pair against two lower cards is a lopsided matchup: the pair is ahead and the other hand has no overcard to catch. That is a heavy lead: JTs needs the board to help it on most runouts and still falls behind far more often than not. The tie share is 0.40%: on those boards the pot is chopped and neither hand wins outright. In the ranking of all 169 starting hands, QQ is number 3 and JTs is number 45. **Boards behind the percentages: 41,095,296 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QQ | 33,480,000 | 165,000 | 7,450,000 | | JTs | 7,450,000 | 165,000 | 33,480,000 | Exact total: 24 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 JTs 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 | 4.456 | 1.227 | 5.516 | 0.224 | | JTs | 0.224 | 5.516 | 1.227 | 4.456 | 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 QQ prefers low rainbow flops (nine high or lower), where it holds 87.21%, and likes monotone flops least, where it holds 75.51%. QQ stays ahead on all five textures. **QQ against JTs by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | QQ wins | Ties | JTs wins | QQ equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.138 | 82.181 | 0.134 | 17.685 | 82.248 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.771 | 86.743 | 0.935 | 12.322 | 87.210 | | Two-tone | 46.545 | 79.647 | 0.306 | 20.047 | 79.800 | | Monotone | 5.212 | 74.311 | 2.395 | 23.294 | 75.509 | | Paired | 17.334 | 85.200 | 0.177 | 14.623 | 85.288 | 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 JTs 57.53%. Against each other the change is +1.74 points for QQ and -39.20 for JTs. **QQ and JTs 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 | 81.670 | 79.925 | +1.745 | 1.02183 | | QQ, rainbow, ten or higher | 82.248 | 79.925 | +2.323 | 1.02906 | | QQ, rainbow, nine or lower | 87.210 | 79.925 | +7.285 | 1.09115 | | QQ, two-tone | 79.800 | 79.925 | -0.125 | 0.99844 | | QQ, monotone | 75.509 | 79.925 | -4.416 | 0.94475 | | QQ, paired | 85.288 | 79.925 | +5.363 | 1.06710 | | JTs, all flops | 18.330 | 57.528 | -39.198 | 0.31863 | | JTs, rainbow, ten or higher | 17.752 | 57.528 | -39.776 | 0.30858 | | JTs, rainbow, nine or lower | 12.790 | 57.528 | -44.738 | 0.22233 | | JTs, two-tone | 20.200 | 57.528 | -37.328 | 0.35113 | | JTs, monotone | 24.491 | 57.528 | -33.037 | 0.42572 | | JTs, paired | 14.712 | 57.528 | -42.816 | 0.25574 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Split by suits, the deals give QQ 82.23% when the hands overlap in a suit and 81.12% when they do not. QQ does better with a shared suit, by 1.11 points. **QQ against JTs by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | QQ wins | Ties | JTs wins | QQ equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 12 | 50.00 | 82.004 | 0.442 | 17.554 | 82.225 | | No shared suit | 12 | 50.00 | 80.934 | 0.361 | 18.705 | 81.115 | ## How often this matchup comes up Exactly 24 specific deals fit this matchup in one seat order, which is 0.0015% of 1,624,350; both orders together give 48, or 0.0030%. ## A worked example Worked example: both players commit $100, so $200 sits in the middle. Over every board, QQ's average share is $163.34 (a gain of $63.34) and JTs' is $36.66 (a loss of $63.34). Think in thousands: about 815 of 1,000 go to QQ, about 181 go to JTs, and about 4 are chopped. ## The same matchup from the other side The reversed view, JTs against QQ, shows 18.33% for JTs and 81.67% for QQ. It is the same count, so it redirects here. ## Keep exploring Try QsQh against JdTd 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 JdTd in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=QsQh&p2=JdTd) - [QQ combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/qq.md) - [JTs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/jts.md) - [QQ vs A2s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-a2s.md) - [QQ vs QTo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-qto.md) - [JJ vs JTs](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-jts.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 24 specific deals of QQ against JTs, 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 A2s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-a2s.md) - [QQ vs QTo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-qto.md) - [JJ vs JTs: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-jts.md)