--- title: "QQ vs QJs: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-qjs.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-qjs" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "QQ is a big favorite over QJs before the flop: 84.17% to 15.83% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-k9s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-a5s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-qjs.md"] --- # QQ vs QJs: preflop equity QQ is a big favorite over QJs before the flop: 84.17% to 15.83% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Dealt all in against each other, QQ takes 84.17% of the pot on average and QJs takes the other 15.83%. ## QQ against QJs: the numbers **Exact preflop results for QQ against QJs, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QQ | 83.380 | 1.586 | 15.034 | 84.173 | | QJs | 15.034 | 1.586 | 83.380 | 15.827 | QQ is a pocket pair and QJs 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. That is a heavy lead: QJs needs the board to help it on most runouts and still falls behind far more often than not. Split pots make up 1.59% of the boards, and both equity figures count them as half a win each. QQ ranks number 3 of 169 starting hands, and QJs ranks number 28, 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 | 17,133,000 | 326,000 | 3,089,000 | | QJs | 3,089,000 | 326,000 | 17,133,000 | The board total is exact, 12 deals at 1,712,304 boards each. Won, tied and lost counts are rounded to the nearest thousand from the five-decimal percentages. **QQ against QJs 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 | 5.318 | 1.199 | 6.652 | 0.188 | | QJs | 0.188 | 6.652 | 1.199 | 5.318 | 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 75.11% on monotone flops up to 92.74% 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 QJs by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | QQ wins | Ties | QJs wins | QQ equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.011 | 84.311 | 1.897 | 13.792 | 85.259 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.771 | 92.073 | 1.340 | 6.587 | 92.743 | | Two-tone | 46.236 | 81.729 | 1.616 | 16.655 | 82.537 | | Monotone | 5.151 | 73.823 | 2.578 | 23.599 | 75.112 | | Paired | 17.831 | 85.433 | 0.924 | 13.643 | 85.895 | 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 Relative to a random opponent, QQ changes by +4.24 points (baseline 79.93%) and QJs by -44.43 points (baseline 60.26%). **QQ and QJs 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 | 84.173 | 79.925 | +4.248 | 1.05315 | | QQ, rainbow, ten or higher | 85.259 | 79.925 | +5.334 | 1.06674 | | QQ, rainbow, nine or lower | 92.743 | 79.925 | +12.818 | 1.16038 | | QQ, two-tone | 82.537 | 79.925 | +2.612 | 1.03268 | | QQ, monotone | 75.112 | 79.925 | -4.813 | 0.93978 | | QQ, paired | 85.895 | 79.925 | +5.970 | 1.07470 | | QJs, all flops | 15.827 | 60.259 | -44.432 | 0.26265 | | QJs, rainbow, ten or higher | 14.741 | 60.259 | -45.518 | 0.24463 | | QJs, rainbow, nine or lower | 7.257 | 60.259 | -53.002 | 0.12043 | | QJs, two-tone | 17.463 | 60.259 | -42.796 | 0.28980 | | QJs, monotone | 24.888 | 60.259 | -35.371 | 0.41302 | | QJs, paired | 14.105 | 60.259 | -46.154 | 0.23407 | ## Does a shared suit matter? There is no shared-suit case for this pair, since the cards they would need are already in the other hand. Every deal is a no-shared-suit deal. **QQ against QJs by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | QQ wins | Ties | QJs wins | QQ equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 0 | 0.00 | not possible | not possible | not possible | not possible | | No shared suit | 12 | 100.00 | 83.380 | 1.586 | 15.034 | 84.173 | ## How often this matchup comes up Exactly 12 specific deals fit this matchup in one seat order, which is 0.0007% of 1,624,350; both orders together give 24, or 0.0015%. ## A worked example With $100 from each side, the $200 pot is split on average as $168.34 for QQ and $31.66 for QJs; the first side gains $68.34 per all-in and the second gives up $68.34. A thousand deals look like this: QQ takes 834, QJs takes 150, 16 are ties. ## The same matchup from the other side Swap the hands and you get QJs with 15.83% against QQ with 84.17%. We keep one page per matchup, with the better-ranked hand first. ## Keep exploring Open the calculator with QsQh against QdJd 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 QdJd in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=QsQh&p2=QdJd) - [QQ combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/qq.md) - [QJs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/qjs.md) - [QQ vs K9s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-k9s.md) - [QQ vs A5s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-a5s.md) - [JJ vs QJs](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-qjs.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 QJs, 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 K9s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-k9s.md) - [QQ vs A5s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-a5s.md) - [JJ vs QJs: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-qjs.md)