--- title: "QQ vs TT: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-tt.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-tt" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "QQ is a big favorite over TT before the flop: 81.57% to 18.43% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-99.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-88.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-tt.md"] --- # QQ vs TT: preflop equity QQ is a big favorite over TT before the flop: 81.57% to 18.43% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Counting every board, the equity split is 81.57% for QQ and 18.43% for TT, so QQ leads by 63.14 points. ## QQ against TT: the numbers **Exact preflop results for QQ against TT, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QQ | 81.362 | 0.411 | 18.227 | 81.567 | | TT | 18.227 | 0.411 | 81.362 | 18.433 | Two pocket pairs meet here: QQ against TT. A pair against a smaller pair is the classic crush: the smaller pair needs one of its two remaining cards to make a set. This is one of the lopsided matchups: TT wins only 18.23% of the boards outright. 0.41% of boards are ties, so the equity of each hand is its win rate plus half of that. Place 3 of 169 belongs to QQ and place 5 belongs to TT in the ranking 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 | 50,154,000 | 253,000 | 11,236,000 | | TT | 11,236,000 | 253,000 | 50,154,000 | 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 TT 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 | 4.425 | 1.229 | 5.486 | 0.226 | | TT | 0.226 | 5.486 | 1.229 | 4.425 | 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 If you know the kind of flop that came, the numbers shift: QQ holds 88.70% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) and 75.87% on monotone flops. QQ stays ahead on all five textures. **QQ against TT by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | QQ wins | Ties | TT wins | QQ equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.138 | 78.565 | 0.160 | 21.275 | 78.645 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.771 | 88.178 | 1.039 | 10.783 | 88.698 | | Two-tone | 46.363 | 80.392 | 0.365 | 19.243 | 80.574 | | Monotone | 5.152 | 75.001 | 1.737 | 23.262 | 75.869 | | Paired | 17.576 | 86.457 | 0.193 | 13.350 | 86.553 | 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 Compared with a random opponent, this matchup shifts QQ from 79.93% by +1.64 points and TT from 75.01% by -56.58 points. **QQ and TT 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 | 81.567 | 79.925 | +1.642 | 1.02054 | | QQ, rainbow, ten or higher | 78.645 | 79.925 | -1.280 | 0.98398 | | QQ, rainbow, nine or lower | 88.698 | 79.925 | +8.773 | 1.10977 | | QQ, two-tone | 80.574 | 79.925 | +0.649 | 1.00812 | | QQ, monotone | 75.869 | 79.925 | -4.056 | 0.94925 | | QQ, paired | 86.553 | 79.925 | +6.628 | 1.08293 | | TT, all flops | 18.433 | 75.012 | -56.579 | 0.24573 | | TT, rainbow, ten or higher | 21.355 | 75.012 | -53.657 | 0.28469 | | TT, rainbow, nine or lower | 11.302 | 75.012 | -63.710 | 0.15067 | | TT, two-tone | 19.426 | 75.012 | -55.586 | 0.25897 | | TT, monotone | 24.131 | 75.012 | -50.881 | 0.32170 | | TT, paired | 13.447 | 75.012 | -61.565 | 0.17926 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Does suit overlap move the numbers? QQ has 81.70% when the hands share a suit and 80.89% when they do not. QQ does better with a shared suit, by 0.81 points. **QQ against TT by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | QQ wins | Ties | TT wins | QQ equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 30 | 83.33 | 81.491 | 0.426 | 18.083 | 81.704 | | No shared suit | 6 | 16.67 | 80.720 | 0.331 | 18.949 | 80.885 | ## How often this matchup comes up You will meet this exact matchup 0.0044% of the time in a random heads-up deal: 72 of 1,624,350, counting either seat order. ## A worked example Worked example: both players commit $100, so $200 sits in the middle. Over every board, QQ's average share is $163.14 (a gain of $63.14) and TT's is $36.86 (a loss of $63.14). A thousand deals look like this: QQ takes 814, TT takes 182, 4 are ties. ## The same matchup from the other side Read it from the other side: TT against QQ is the same matchup with the numbers swapped, so TT holds 18.43% and QQ holds 81.57%. That address sends you back to this page. ## Keep exploring Try QsQh against TdTc 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 TdTc in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=QsQh&p2=TdTc) - [QQ combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/qq.md) - [TT combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/tt.md) - [QQ vs 99](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-99.md) - [QQ vs 88](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-88.md) - [JJ vs TT](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-tt.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed We counted every case. Each suit pattern of the 36 specific QQ against TT 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 99: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-99.md) - [QQ vs 88: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-88.md) - [JJ vs TT: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-tt.md)