--- title: "QTs vs 54s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qts-vs-54s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qts-vs-54s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "QTs is a big favorite over 54s before the flop: 62.43% to 37.57% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qts-vs-64s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qts-vs-53s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a4s-vs-54s.md"] --- # QTs vs 54s: preflop equity QTs is a big favorite over 54s before the flop: 62.43% to 37.57% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Dealt all in against each other, QTs takes 62.43% of the pot on average and 54s takes the other 37.57%. ## QTs against 54s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for QTs against 54s, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QTs | 61.957 | 0.954 | 37.089 | 62.434 | | 54s | 37.089 | 0.954 | 61.957 | 37.566 | This is a contest between two suited hands, QTs and 54s. The two hands share no rank, which makes this a pure matchup of card strength, straight chances and flush chances. That is a modest edge, the kind that shows up over many hands and is easy to miss in one. Ties are 0.95% of the outcomes here; each tied board gives both hands half the pot. QTs ranks number 34 of 169 starting hands, and 54s ranks number 136, by equity against a random hand. **Boards behind the percentages: 27,396,864 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QTs | 16,974,000 | 261,000 | 10,161,000 | | 54s | 10,161,000 | 261,000 | 16,974,000 | 16 specific deals times 1,712,304 boards gives the exact total. The won, tied and lost counts are approximations from the five-decimal percentages, rounded to the nearest thousand. **QTs against 54s 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 | 1.662 | 1.614 | 2.696 | 0.602 | | 54s | 0.602 | 2.696 | 1.614 | 1.662 | 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 QTs is strongest on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better (69.17%) and weakest on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) (37.54%). The lead reverses on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower): there 54s is the favorite even though QTs is ahead overall. **QTs against 54s by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | QTs wins | Ties | 54s wins | QTs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 24.595 | 68.937 | 0.475 | 30.588 | 69.174 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 6.314 | 37.184 | 0.720 | 62.096 | 37.544 | | Two-tone | 46.727 | 61.601 | 0.487 | 37.912 | 61.845 | | Monotone | 5.273 | 58.036 | 3.668 | 38.296 | 59.870 | | Paired | 17.091 | 63.243 | 2.172 | 34.585 | 64.329 | 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 Compared with a random opponent, this matchup shifts QTs from 59.47% by +2.96 points and 54s from 41.45% by -3.88 points. **QTs and 54s 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 | 62.434 | 59.468 | +2.966 | 1.04988 | | QTs, rainbow, ten or higher | 69.174 | 59.468 | +9.706 | 1.16321 | | QTs, rainbow, nine or lower | 37.544 | 59.468 | -21.924 | 0.63133 | | QTs, two-tone | 61.845 | 59.468 | +2.377 | 1.03997 | | QTs, monotone | 59.870 | 59.468 | +0.402 | 1.00676 | | QTs, paired | 64.329 | 59.468 | +4.861 | 1.08174 | | 54s, all flops | 37.566 | 41.453 | -3.887 | 0.90623 | | 54s, rainbow, ten or higher | 30.826 | 41.453 | -10.627 | 0.74364 | | 54s, rainbow, nine or lower | 62.456 | 41.453 | +21.003 | 1.50667 | | 54s, two-tone | 38.155 | 41.453 | -3.298 | 0.92044 | | 54s, monotone | 40.130 | 41.453 | -1.323 | 0.96808 | | 54s, paired | 35.671 | 41.453 | -5.782 | 0.86052 | ## Does a shared suit matter? The suit split reads 64.66% for QTs with a shared suit and 61.69% without one. QTs does better with a shared suit, by 2.97 points. **QTs against 54s by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | QTs wins | Ties | 54s wins | QTs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 4 | 25.00 | 64.135 | 1.056 | 34.809 | 64.663 | | No shared suit | 12 | 75.00 | 61.231 | 0.920 | 37.849 | 61.691 | ## How often this matchup comes up Counting specific cards, QTs against 54s appears in 16 of the 1,624,350 ordered heads-up deals (0.0010%), and in 32 when the seats are swapped too (0.0020%). ## A worked example Take a $200 pot built from $100 each. QTs' equity of 62.43% is worth $124.86, a $24.86 edge, and 54s' 37.57% is worth $75.14, which is $24.86 under its stake. In 1,000 deals of exactly this matchup, expect about 620 won outright by QTs, about 371 won outright by 54s and about 9 split. ## The same matchup from the other side The mirror image, 54s against QTs, is 37.57% to 62.43%, and its address redirects to this page. ## Keep exploring Open the calculator with QsTs against 5h4h 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 5h4h in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=QsTs&p2=5h4h) - [QTs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/qts.md) - [54s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/54s.md) - [QTs vs 64s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qts-vs-64s.md) - [QTs vs 53s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qts-vs-53s.md) - [A4s vs 54s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a4s-vs-54s.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed Each figure is a complete count over boards. Take the 16 specific deals, group them by suit pattern, deal all 1,712,304 boards against each, and compare the two seven-card hands. Equity counts a tie as half a win; the flop rows use every one of a board's ten flops. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [QTs vs 64s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qts-vs-64s.md) - [QTs vs 53s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qts-vs-53s.md) - [A4s vs 54s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a4s-vs-54s.md)