--- title: "QQ vs QTo: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-qto.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-qto" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "QQ is a big favorite over QTo before the flop: 88.74% to 11.26% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-44.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-j9s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-qto.md"] --- # QQ vs QTo: preflop equity QQ is a big favorite over QTo before the flop: 88.74% to 11.26% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Dealt all in against each other, QQ takes 88.74% of the pot on average and QTo takes the other 11.26%. ## QQ against QTo: the numbers **Exact preflop results for QQ against QTo, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QQ | 87.933 | 1.621 | 10.446 | 88.744 | | QTo | 10.446 | 1.621 | 87.933 | 11.256 | We compare a pocket pair with 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. QQ is a big favorite here before anyone sees a flop. Of every 100 boards, about 1.62 are split pots, and the equity figures already include them. QQ ranks number 3 of 169 starting hands, and QTo ranks number 47, by equity against a random hand. **Boards behind the percentages: 61,642,944 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QQ | 54,204,000 | 999,000 | 6,439,000 | | QTo | 6,439,000 | 999,000 | 54,204,000 | 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 QTo 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 | 7.884 | 1.137 | 9.573 | 0.127 | | QTo | 0.127 | 9.573 | 1.137 | 7.884 | The last column is the smallest pot odds, written as a pot-to-call ratio, at which a call breaks even with this equity. ## Who is ahead on which flops Low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) are the best for QQ (94.37%); monotone flops are the worst (80.48%). QQ stays ahead on all five textures. **QQ against QTo by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | QQ wins | Ties | QTo wins | QQ equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.053 | 86.961 | 1.987 | 11.052 | 87.955 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.771 | 93.773 | 1.198 | 5.029 | 94.372 | | Two-tone | 46.215 | 87.621 | 1.707 | 10.672 | 88.474 | | Monotone | 5.130 | 79.386 | 2.183 | 18.431 | 80.478 | | Paired | 17.831 | 89.916 | 0.946 | 9.138 | 90.389 | 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 +8.81 points (baseline 79.93%) and QTo by -46.03 points (baseline 57.29%). **QQ and QTo 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 | 88.744 | 79.925 | +8.819 | 1.11034 | | QQ, rainbow, ten or higher | 87.955 | 79.925 | +8.030 | 1.10047 | | QQ, rainbow, nine or lower | 94.372 | 79.925 | +14.447 | 1.18076 | | QQ, two-tone | 88.474 | 79.925 | +8.549 | 1.10696 | | QQ, monotone | 80.478 | 79.925 | +0.553 | 1.00692 | | QQ, paired | 90.389 | 79.925 | +10.464 | 1.13092 | | QTo, all flops | 11.256 | 57.291 | -46.035 | 0.19647 | | QTo, rainbow, ten or higher | 12.045 | 57.291 | -45.246 | 0.21024 | | QTo, rainbow, nine or lower | 5.628 | 57.291 | -51.663 | 0.09824 | | QTo, two-tone | 11.526 | 57.291 | -45.765 | 0.20118 | | QTo, monotone | 19.522 | 57.291 | -37.769 | 0.34075 | | QTo, paired | 9.611 | 57.291 | -47.680 | 0.16776 | ## Does a shared suit matter? The suit split reads 89.02% for QQ with a shared suit and 88.19% without one. QQ does better with a shared suit, by 0.83 points. **QQ against QTo by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | QQ wins | Ties | QTo wins | QQ equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 24 | 66.67 | 88.193 | 1.654 | 10.153 | 89.020 | | No shared suit | 12 | 33.33 | 87.414 | 1.554 | 11.032 | 88.191 | ## How often this matchup comes up How often does it happen? 36 of the 1,624,350 ordered deals (0.0022%) are QQ against QTo, and 72 (0.0044%) if either hand may sit in either seat. ## A worked example Worked example: both players commit $100, so $200 sits in the middle. Over every board, QQ's average share is $177.48 (a gain of $77.48) and QTo's is $22.52 (a loss of $77.48). A thousand deals look like this: QQ takes 879, QTo takes 105, 16 are ties. ## The same matchup from the other side The reversed view, QTo against QQ, shows 11.26% for QTo and 88.74% for QQ. It is the same count, so it redirects here. ## Keep exploring Try QsQh against QdTc 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 QdTc in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=QsQh&p2=QdTc) - [QQ combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/qq.md) - [QTo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/qto.md) - [QQ vs 44](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-44.md) - [QQ vs J9s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-j9s.md) - [JJ vs QTo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-qto.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed The page is built from a full enumeration: 1,712,304 boards, every suit pattern of the 36 specific deals, both seven-card hands evaluated. A tie is worth half a win to each hand, and a board is tallied under each of its ten possible flops for the texture rows. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [QQ vs 44: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-44.md) - [QQ vs J9s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-j9s.md) - [JJ vs QTo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-qto.md)