--- title: "QTo vs 53s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qto-vs-53s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qto-vs-53s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "QTo is a big favorite over 53s before the flop: 61.21% to 38.79% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qto-vs-43s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/44-vs-53s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qto-vs-64s.md"] --- # QTo vs 53s: preflop equity QTo is a big favorite over 53s before the flop: 61.21% to 38.79% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Before any board card is dealt, QTo holds 61.21% equity against 53s, which leaves 53s with 38.79%. ## QTo against 53s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for QTo against 53s, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QTo | 60.741 | 0.940 | 38.319 | 61.211 | | 53s | 38.319 | 0.940 | 60.741 | 38.789 | One side is an offsuit hand, the other is a suited hand. The two hands share no rank, which makes this a pure matchup of card strength, straight chances and flush chances. QTo is ahead, but 53s is far from dead: it takes 383 of every 1,000 deals outright. A split pot comes up on 0.94% of boards, so the wins and the equity differ by half of that. In the ranking of all 169 starting hands, QTo is number 47 and 53s is number 146. **Boards behind the percentages: 82,190,592 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QTo | 49,923,000 | 773,000 | 31,495,000 | | 53s | 31,495,000 | 773,000 | 49,923,000 | The board total is exact, 48 deals at 1,712,304 boards each. Won, tied and lost counts are rounded to the nearest thousand from the five-decimal percentages. **QTo against 53s read as odds** | Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QTo | 1.578 | 1.646 | 2.610 | 0.634 | | 53s | 0.634 | 2.610 | 1.646 | 1.578 | 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 Across the five flop textures QTo's equity moves by 31.94 points, from 37.22% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) to 69.16% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better. On low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) the numbers flip and 53s is the one ahead. **QTo against 53s by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | QTo wins | Ties | 53s wins | QTo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 24.717 | 68.913 | 0.488 | 30.599 | 69.157 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 6.313 | 36.810 | 0.819 | 62.371 | 37.219 | | Two-tone | 46.667 | 59.484 | 0.524 | 39.992 | 59.746 | | Monotone | 5.212 | 58.002 | 2.644 | 39.354 | 59.324 | | Paired | 17.091 | 62.036 | 2.251 | 35.713 | 63.161 | 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 QTo 57.29% and 53s 39.69%. Against each other the change is +3.92 points for QTo and -0.90 for 53s. **QTo and 53s 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QTo, all flops | 61.211 | 57.291 | +3.920 | 1.06842 | | QTo, rainbow, ten or higher | 69.157 | 57.291 | +11.866 | 1.20712 | | QTo, rainbow, nine or lower | 37.219 | 57.291 | -20.072 | 0.64965 | | QTo, two-tone | 59.746 | 57.291 | +2.455 | 1.04285 | | QTo, monotone | 59.324 | 57.291 | +2.033 | 1.03549 | | QTo, paired | 63.161 | 57.291 | +5.870 | 1.10246 | | 53s, all flops | 38.789 | 39.693 | -0.904 | 0.97723 | | 53s, rainbow, ten or higher | 30.843 | 39.693 | -8.850 | 0.77704 | | 53s, rainbow, nine or lower | 62.781 | 39.693 | +23.088 | 1.58166 | | 53s, two-tone | 40.254 | 39.693 | +0.561 | 1.01413 | | 53s, monotone | 40.676 | 39.693 | +0.983 | 1.02477 | | 53s, paired | 36.839 | 39.693 | -2.854 | 0.92810 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Does suit overlap move the numbers? QTo has 61.93% when the hands share a suit and 60.49% when they do not. QTo does better with a shared suit, by 1.44 points. **QTo against 53s by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | QTo wins | Ties | 53s wins | QTo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 24 | 50.00 | 61.442 | 0.981 | 37.577 | 61.932 | | No shared suit | 24 | 50.00 | 60.041 | 0.899 | 39.060 | 60.491 | ## How often this matchup comes up The class pair covers 48 combinations of specific cards in a fixed seat order, 0.0030% of 1,624,350, and 96 (0.0059%) in either order. ## A worked example Worked example: both players commit $100, so $200 sits in the middle. Over every board, QTo's average share is $122.42 (a gain of $22.42) and 53s' is $77.58 (a loss of $22.42). Per 1,000 deals: QTo wins about 608, 53s wins about 383, and about 9 end in a split pot. ## The same matchup from the other side Read it from the other side: 53s against QTo is the same matchup with the numbers swapped, so 53s holds 38.79% and QTo holds 61.21%. That address sends you back to this page. ## Keep exploring Try QsTh against 5d3d 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 QsTh against 5d3d in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=QsTh&p2=5d3d) - [QTo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/qto.md) - [53s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/53s.md) - [QTo vs 43s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qto-vs-43s.md) - [44 vs 53s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/44-vs-53s.md) - [QTo vs 64s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qto-vs-64s.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed The figures are counted, not estimated: 1,712,304 boards for every suit pattern of the 48 specific deals, with both seven-card hands compared each time. Equity gives half a win for a tie. For the flop rows, a board is counted once under each of the ten flops inside it. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [QTo vs 43s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qto-vs-43s.md) - [44 vs 53s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/44-vs-53s.md) - [QTo vs 64s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qto-vs-64s.md)