--- title: "QTs vs 64s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qts-vs-64s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qts-vs-64s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "QTs is a big favorite over 64s before the flop: 63.48% to 36.52% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qts-vs-53s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qts-vs-43s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a4s-vs-64s.md"] --- # QTs vs 64s: preflop equity QTs is a big favorite over 64s before the flop: 63.48% to 36.52% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Dealt all in against each other, QTs takes 63.48% of the pot on average and 64s takes the other 36.52%. ## QTs against 64s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for QTs against 64s, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QTs | 63.016 | 0.921 | 36.063 | 63.476 | | 64s | 36.063 | 0.921 | 63.016 | 36.524 | Two suited hands meet here: QTs against 64s. With no overlap in ranks, every card that pairs one hand is a card that does not pair the other. The lead is steady rather than large, and the flop still has plenty of say in who wins. Ties are 0.92% of the outcomes here; each tied board gives both hands half the pot. Ranked by equity against a random hand, QTs is number 34 of the 169 starting hands and 64s is number 138. **Boards behind the percentages: 27,396,864 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QTs | 17,264,000 | 252,000 | 9,880,000 | | 64s | 9,880,000 | 252,000 | 17,264,000 | 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 64s 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 | 1.738 | 1.587 | 2.773 | 0.575 | | 64s | 0.575 | 2.773 | 1.587 | 1.738 | 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 QTs prefers rainbow flops topped by a ten or better, where it holds 70.70%, and likes low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) least, where it holds 37.56%. Low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) favor 64s, the hand that is behind overall. **QTs against 64s by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | QTs wins | Ties | 64s wins | QTs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 24.595 | 70.480 | 0.442 | 29.078 | 70.701 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 6.314 | 37.243 | 0.624 | 62.133 | 37.555 | | Two-tone | 46.727 | 62.696 | 0.446 | 36.858 | 62.919 | | Monotone | 5.273 | 58.851 | 3.588 | 37.561 | 60.645 | | Paired | 17.091 | 63.953 | 2.194 | 33.853 | 65.050 | 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 Relative to a random opponent, QTs changes by +4.01 points (baseline 59.47%) and 64s by -4.81 points (baseline 41.33%). **QTs and 64s 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 | 63.476 | 59.468 | +4.008 | 1.06740 | | QTs, rainbow, ten or higher | 70.701 | 59.468 | +11.233 | 1.18889 | | QTs, rainbow, nine or lower | 37.555 | 59.468 | -21.913 | 0.63152 | | QTs, two-tone | 62.919 | 59.468 | +3.451 | 1.05803 | | QTs, monotone | 60.645 | 59.468 | +1.177 | 1.01979 | | QTs, paired | 65.050 | 59.468 | +5.582 | 1.09387 | | 64s, all flops | 36.524 | 41.333 | -4.809 | 0.88365 | | 64s, rainbow, ten or higher | 29.299 | 41.333 | -12.034 | 0.70885 | | 64s, rainbow, nine or lower | 62.445 | 41.333 | +21.112 | 1.51078 | | 64s, two-tone | 37.081 | 41.333 | -4.252 | 0.89713 | | 64s, monotone | 39.355 | 41.333 | -1.978 | 0.95214 | | 64s, paired | 34.950 | 41.333 | -6.383 | 0.84557 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Does suit overlap move the numbers? QTs has 65.84% when the hands share a suit and 62.69% when they do not. QTs does better with a shared suit, by 3.15 points. **QTs against 64s by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | QTs wins | Ties | 64s wins | QTs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 4 | 25.00 | 65.329 | 1.021 | 33.650 | 65.840 | | No shared suit | 12 | 75.00 | 62.244 | 0.888 | 36.868 | 62.688 | ## How often this matchup comes up QTs against 64s is made up of 16 specific-card matchups in one seat order, 0.0010% of the 1,624,350 ordered deals, and 32 counting both seat orders, 0.0020%. ## A worked example Put $100 each into a $200 pot and deal every board once: QTs averages $126.96 back, ahead of its $100 by $26.96, while 64s averages $73.04, short of its $100 by $26.96. Over a long run, 1,000 deals split into about 630 for QTs, 361 for 64s and 9 tied. ## The same matchup from the other side 64s against QTs adds nothing new: it is 36.52% for 64s and 63.48% for QTs, the same figures reversed. ## Keep exploring QsTs against 6h4h 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 QsTs against 6h4h in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=QsTs&p2=6h4h) - [QTs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/qts.md) - [64s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/64s.md) - [QTs vs 53s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qts-vs-53s.md) - [QTs vs 43s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qts-vs-43s.md) - [A4s vs 64s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a4s-vs-64s.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 53s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qts-vs-53s.md) - [QTs vs 43s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qts-vs-43s.md) - [A4s vs 64s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a4s-vs-64s.md)