--- title: "QQ vs QTs: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-qts.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-qts" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "QQ is a big favorite over QTs before the flop: 83.77% to 16.23% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-a4s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-a3s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-qts.md"] --- # QQ vs QTs: preflop equity QQ is a big favorite over QTs before the flop: 83.77% to 16.23% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Over all 1,712,304 boards that can follow this deal, QQ finishes with 83.77% of the pot and QTs with 16.23%. ## QQ against QTs: the numbers **Exact preflop results for QQ against QTs, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QQ | 82.987 | 1.575 | 15.438 | 83.774 | | QTs | 15.438 | 1.575 | 82.987 | 16.226 | Here a pocket pair (QQ) meets a suited hand (QTs). The non-pair hand shares a rank with the pair, so two of its outs for pairing are blocked by the pair itself. QQ is a big favorite here before anyone sees a flop. About 1.58% of boards chop the pot, which is why equity sits slightly above the win figure for both hands. By strength against a random hand, QQ holds place 3 of 169 and QTs holds place 34. **Boards behind the percentages: 20,547,648 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QQ | 17,052,000 | 324,000 | 3,172,000 | | QTs | 3,172,000 | 324,000 | 17,052,000 | 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 QTs 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 | 5.163 | 1.205 | 6.478 | 0.194 | | QTs | 0.194 | 6.478 | 1.205 | 5.163 | In the last column, a pot-to-call ratio at or above the figure makes a call break even or better at this equity. ## Who is ahead on which flops The flop changes the picture. QQ does best on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower), at 91.20%, and worst on monotone flops, at 74.83%. 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 QTs by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | QQ wins | Ties | QTs wins | QQ equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.011 | 84.143 | 1.939 | 13.918 | 85.113 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.771 | 90.620 | 1.152 | 8.228 | 91.196 | | Two-tone | 46.236 | 81.288 | 1.604 | 17.108 | 82.090 | | Monotone | 5.151 | 73.542 | 2.573 | 23.885 | 74.829 | | Paired | 17.831 | 85.301 | 0.924 | 13.775 | 85.763 | 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 Start from the random-hand figures, 79.93% for QQ and 59.47% for QTs. This opponent changes them by +3.84 and -43.24 points. **QQ and QTs 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 | 83.774 | 79.925 | +3.849 | 1.04816 | | QQ, rainbow, ten or higher | 85.113 | 79.925 | +5.188 | 1.06491 | | QQ, rainbow, nine or lower | 91.196 | 79.925 | +11.271 | 1.14102 | | QQ, two-tone | 82.090 | 79.925 | +2.165 | 1.02709 | | QQ, monotone | 74.829 | 79.925 | -5.096 | 0.93624 | | QQ, paired | 85.763 | 79.925 | +5.838 | 1.07304 | | QTs, all flops | 16.226 | 59.468 | -43.242 | 0.27285 | | QTs, rainbow, ten or higher | 14.887 | 59.468 | -44.581 | 0.25034 | | QTs, rainbow, nine or lower | 8.804 | 59.468 | -50.664 | 0.14805 | | QTs, two-tone | 17.910 | 59.468 | -41.558 | 0.30117 | | QTs, monotone | 25.171 | 59.468 | -34.297 | 0.42327 | | QTs, paired | 14.237 | 59.468 | -45.231 | 0.23941 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Suits do not split this matchup, because no legal deal has the hands holding the same suit. **QQ against QTs by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | QQ wins | Ties | QTs wins | QQ equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 0 | 0.00 | not possible | not possible | not possible | not possible | | No shared suit | 12 | 100.00 | 82.987 | 1.575 | 15.438 | 83.774 | ## How often this matchup comes up You will meet this exact matchup 0.0015% of the time in a random heads-up deal: 24 of 1,624,350, counting either seat order. ## A worked example With $100 from each side, the $200 pot is split on average as $167.54 for QQ and $32.46 for QTs; the first side gains $67.54 per all-in and the second gives up $67.54. Scaled to 1,000 deals, that is roughly 830 wins for QQ, 154 for QTs and 16 chopped pots. ## The same matchup from the other side The mirror image, QTs against QQ, is 16.23% to 83.77%, and its address redirects to this page. ## Keep exploring QsQh against QdTd is a ready-made deal for the calculator, with no suit in common between the hands. The neighboring matchups below replace one hand with another of similar strength. - [Open QsQh against QdTd in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=QsQh&p2=QdTd) - [QQ combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/qq.md) - [QTs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/qts.md) - [QQ vs A4s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-a4s.md) - [QQ vs A3s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-a3s.md) - [JJ vs QTs](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-qts.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed We counted every case. Each suit pattern of the 12 specific QQ against QTs deals meets all 1,712,304 boards, and the better five-card hand wins; a split pot is half a win each. The flop table reads each board under all ten of its three-card flops. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [QQ vs A4s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-a4s.md) - [QQ vs A3s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-a3s.md) - [JJ vs QTs: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-qts.md)