--- title: "QTs vs 43s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qts-vs-43s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qts-vs-43s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "QTs is a big favorite over 43s before the flop: 63.74% to 36.26% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a4s-vs-43s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qts-vs-53s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kto-vs-43s.md"] --- # QTs vs 43s: preflop equity QTs is a big favorite over 43s before the flop: 63.74% to 36.26% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Before any board card is dealt, QTs holds 63.74% equity against 43s, which leaves 43s with 36.26%. ## QTs against 43s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for QTs against 43s, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QTs | 63.251 | 0.970 | 35.779 | 63.736 | | 43s | 35.779 | 0.970 | 63.251 | 36.264 | Both hands are suited hands: QTs and 43s. The two hands share no rank, which makes this a pure matchup of card strength, straight chances and flush chances. QTs is ahead, but 43s is far from dead: it takes 358 of every 1,000 deals outright. The tie share is 0.97%: on those boards the pot is chopped and neither hand wins outright. The hand ranking puts QTs at 34 and 43s at 150 out of 169 starting hands. **Boards behind the percentages: 27,396,864 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QTs | 17,329,000 | 266,000 | 9,802,000 | | 43s | 9,802,000 | 266,000 | 17,329,000 | Exact total: 16 deals times 1,712,304 boards. The other three counts come from the five-decimal percentages and are rounded to the nearest thousand, so read them as approximate. **QTs against 43s read as odds** | Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QTs | 1.758 | 1.581 | 2.795 | 0.569 | | 43s | 0.569 | 2.795 | 1.581 | 1.758 | 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 Break the boards down by their first three cards and QTs is strongest on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better (70.45%) and weakest on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) (39.69%). 43s takes over on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower), so the favorite before the flop is the underdog on those boards. **QTs against 43s by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | QTs wins | Ties | 43s wins | QTs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 24.595 | 70.214 | 0.474 | 29.312 | 70.451 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 6.314 | 39.300 | 0.786 | 59.914 | 39.693 | | Two-tone | 46.727 | 62.884 | 0.496 | 36.620 | 63.132 | | Monotone | 5.273 | 58.995 | 3.771 | 37.234 | 60.881 | | Paired | 17.091 | 64.394 | 2.180 | 33.426 | 65.484 | Rainbow flops have three suits, two-tone flops repeat one suit, monotone flops are all one suit, and paired flops repeat a rank. ## Compared with a random hand The table below sets each hand against its own random-hand baseline: a change of +4.27 points for QTs, from 59.47%, and -2.38 for 43s, from 38.64%. **QTs and 43s 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QTs, all flops | 63.736 | 59.468 | +4.268 | 1.07177 | | QTs, rainbow, ten or higher | 70.451 | 59.468 | +10.983 | 1.18469 | | QTs, rainbow, nine or lower | 39.693 | 59.468 | -19.775 | 0.66747 | | QTs, two-tone | 63.132 | 59.468 | +3.664 | 1.06161 | | QTs, monotone | 60.881 | 59.468 | +1.413 | 1.02376 | | QTs, paired | 65.484 | 59.468 | +6.016 | 1.10116 | | 43s, all flops | 36.264 | 38.642 | -2.378 | 0.93846 | | 43s, rainbow, ten or higher | 29.549 | 38.642 | -9.093 | 0.76469 | | 43s, rainbow, nine or lower | 60.307 | 38.642 | +21.665 | 1.56066 | | 43s, two-tone | 36.868 | 38.642 | -1.774 | 0.95409 | | 43s, monotone | 39.119 | 38.642 | +0.477 | 1.01234 | | 43s, paired | 34.516 | 38.642 | -4.126 | 0.89322 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Suit overlap shows up in the numbers. With a suit in common QTs has 66.12% equity, and with none in common it has 62.94%. QTs does better with a shared suit, by 3.18 points. **QTs against 43s by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | QTs wins | Ties | 43s wins | QTs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 4 | 25.00 | 65.583 | 1.066 | 33.351 | 66.116 | | No shared suit | 12 | 75.00 | 62.473 | 0.938 | 36.589 | 62.942 | ## How often this matchup comes up You will meet this exact matchup 0.0020% of the time in a random heads-up deal: 32 of 1,624,350, counting either seat order. ## A worked example With $100 from each side, the $200 pot is split on average as $127.48 for QTs and $72.52 for 43s; the first side gains $27.48 per all-in and the second gives up $27.48. In 1,000 deals of exactly this matchup, expect about 632 won outright by QTs, about 358 won outright by 43s and about 10 split. ## The same matchup from the other side The reversed view, 43s against QTs, shows 36.26% for 43s and 63.74% for QTs. It is the same count, so it redirects here. ## Keep exploring Open the calculator with QsTs against 4h3h already entered, a deal with no shared suit, and change any card to try your own hand. The matchups after it each swap one hand for a nearby one in the ranking. - [Open QsTs against 4h3h in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=QsTs&p2=4h3h) - [QTs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/qts.md) - [43s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/43s.md) - [A4s vs 43s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a4s-vs-43s.md) - [QTs vs 53s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qts-vs-53s.md) - [KTo vs 43s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kto-vs-43s.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 16 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 - [A4s vs 43s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a4s-vs-43s.md) - [QTs vs 53s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qts-vs-53s.md) - [KTo vs 43s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kto-vs-43s.md)