--- title: "QTo vs JTo: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qto-vs-jto.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qto-vs-jto" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "QTo is a big favorite over JTo before the flop: 73.17% to 26.83% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qto-vs-t9s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qto-vs-33.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/44-vs-jto.md"] --- # QTo vs JTo: preflop equity QTo is a big favorite over JTo before the flop: 73.17% to 26.83% 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, QTo finishes with 73.17% of the pot and JTo with 26.83%. ## QTo against JTo: the numbers **Exact preflop results for QTo against JTo, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QTo | 71.286 | 3.776 | 24.938 | 73.174 | | JTo | 24.938 | 3.776 | 71.286 | 26.826 | Each side holds one of the offsuit hands: QTo and JTo. Sharing a rank is the signature of a dominated hand, since the weaker hand is usually out-kicked when the shared rank shows up. QTo is the clear favorite, though JTo gets there on roughly one board in 4. Ties are 3.78% of the outcomes here; each tied board gives both hands half the pot. In the ranking of all 169 starting hands, QTo is number 47 and JTo is number 57. **Boards behind the percentages: 184,928,832 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QTo | 131,828,000 | 6,983,000 | 46,118,000 | | JTo | 46,118,000 | 6,983,000 | 131,828,000 | The total is exact: 108 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. **QTo against JTo 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 | 2.728 | 1.403 | 4.010 | 0.367 | | JTo | 0.367 | 4.010 | 1.403 | 2.728 | 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 Break the boards down by their first three cards and QTo is strongest on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) (81.19%) and weakest on monotone flops (67.83%). QTo stays ahead on all five textures. **QTo against JTo by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | QTo wins | Ties | JTo wins | QTo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.275 | 68.914 | 3.769 | 27.317 | 70.798 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.771 | 80.647 | 1.079 | 18.274 | 81.187 | | Two-tone | 46.477 | 71.247 | 3.027 | 25.726 | 72.761 | | Monotone | 5.144 | 65.927 | 3.800 | 30.273 | 67.827 | | Paired | 17.333 | 71.969 | 6.998 | 21.033 | 75.468 | 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 How much does the opponent matter? Compared with its random-hand 57.29%, QTo changes by +15.88 points, and JTo, from 55.25%, by -28.42. **QTo and JTo 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 | 73.174 | 57.291 | +15.883 | 1.27723 | | QTo, rainbow, ten or higher | 70.798 | 57.291 | +13.507 | 1.23576 | | QTo, rainbow, nine or lower | 81.187 | 57.291 | +23.896 | 1.41710 | | QTo, two-tone | 72.761 | 57.291 | +15.470 | 1.27002 | | QTo, monotone | 67.827 | 57.291 | +10.536 | 1.18390 | | QTo, paired | 75.468 | 57.291 | +18.177 | 1.31727 | | JTo, all flops | 26.826 | 55.248 | -28.422 | 0.48556 | | JTo, rainbow, ten or higher | 29.202 | 55.248 | -26.046 | 0.52856 | | JTo, rainbow, nine or lower | 18.813 | 55.248 | -36.435 | 0.34052 | | JTo, two-tone | 27.239 | 55.248 | -28.009 | 0.49303 | | JTo, monotone | 32.173 | 55.248 | -23.075 | 0.58234 | | JTo, paired | 24.532 | 55.248 | -30.716 | 0.44403 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Split by suits, the deals give QTo 73.27% when the hands overlap in a suit and 72.83% when they do not. QTo does better with a shared suit, by 0.44 points. **QTo against JTo by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | QTo wins | Ties | JTo wins | QTo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 84 | 77.78 | 71.370 | 3.806 | 24.824 | 73.273 | | No shared suit | 24 | 22.22 | 70.993 | 3.671 | 25.336 | 72.829 | ## How often this matchup comes up Exactly 108 specific deals fit this matchup in one seat order, which is 0.0066% of 1,624,350; both orders together give 216, or 0.0133%. ## A worked example To see what the equity is worth, imagine $100 each in a $200 pot. QTo is worth $146.34 on average (+$46.34); JTo is worth $53.66 (-$46.34). A thousand deals look like this: QTo takes 713, JTo takes 249, 38 are ties. ## The same matchup from the other side The reversed view, JTo against QTo, shows 26.83% for JTo and 73.17% for QTo. It is the same count, so it redirects here. ## Keep exploring QsTh against JdTc 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 QsTh against JdTc in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=QsTh&p2=JdTc) - [QTo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/qto.md) - [JTo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/jto.md) - [QTo vs T9s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qto-vs-t9s.md) - [QTo vs 33](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qto-vs-33.md) - [44 vs JTo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/44-vs-jto.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 108 specific deals of QTo against JTo, 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 - [QTo vs T9s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qto-vs-t9s.md) - [QTo vs 33: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qto-vs-33.md) - [44 vs JTo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/44-vs-jto.md)