--- title: "QTs vs 65s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qts-vs-65s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qts-vs-65s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "QTs is a big favorite over 65s before the flop: 62.56% to 37.44% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qts-vs-54s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qts-vs-64s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a4s-vs-65s.md"] --- # QTs vs 65s: preflop equity QTs is a big favorite over 65s before the flop: 62.56% to 37.44% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Averaged over every possible board, QTs is ahead of 65s by 25.12 points of equity, 62.56% to 37.44%. ## QTs against 65s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for QTs against 65s, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QTs | 62.097 | 0.920 | 36.983 | 62.557 | | 65s | 36.983 | 0.920 | 62.097 | 37.443 | The matchup is suited hands on both sides, QTs against 65s. Neither hand shares a rank with the other, so this is a contest of high cards, connection and suits. A 25.12 point lead is real, and 65s still takes about 370 of every 1,000 deals outright. The tie share is 0.92%: on those boards the pot is chopped and neither hand wins outright. Among the 169 starting hands, QTs is number 34 and 65s is number 128 by strength 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 | 17,013,000 | 252,000 | 10,132,000 | | 65s | 10,132,000 | 252,000 | 17,013,000 | The total is exact: 16 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. **QTs against 65s 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 | 1.671 | 1.610 | 2.704 | 0.599 | | 65s | 0.599 | 2.704 | 1.610 | 1.671 | 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 Split by what the flop looks like, QTs peaks at 70.01% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better and bottoms out at 35.28% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower). The overall edge for QTs hides low rainbow flops (nine high or lower), where 65s comes out in front. **QTs against 65s by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | QTs wins | Ties | 65s wins | QTs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 24.595 | 69.788 | 0.442 | 29.770 | 70.009 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 6.314 | 34.964 | 0.624 | 64.412 | 35.276 | | Two-tone | 46.727 | 61.802 | 0.446 | 37.752 | 62.025 | | Monotone | 5.273 | 58.198 | 3.583 | 38.219 | 59.989 | | Paired | 17.091 | 63.065 | 2.190 | 34.745 | 64.160 | 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 The table below sets each hand against its own random-hand baseline: a change of +3.09 points for QTs, from 59.47%, and -5.69 for 65s, from 43.13%. **QTs and 65s 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 | 62.557 | 59.468 | +3.089 | 1.05194 | | QTs, rainbow, ten or higher | 70.009 | 59.468 | +10.541 | 1.17725 | | QTs, rainbow, nine or lower | 35.276 | 59.468 | -24.192 | 0.59319 | | QTs, two-tone | 62.025 | 59.468 | +2.557 | 1.04300 | | QTs, monotone | 59.989 | 59.468 | +0.521 | 1.00876 | | QTs, paired | 64.160 | 59.468 | +4.692 | 1.07890 | | 65s, all flops | 37.443 | 43.133 | -5.690 | 0.86808 | | 65s, rainbow, ten or higher | 29.991 | 43.133 | -13.142 | 0.69531 | | 65s, rainbow, nine or lower | 64.724 | 43.133 | +21.591 | 1.50057 | | 65s, two-tone | 37.975 | 43.133 | -5.158 | 0.88042 | | 65s, monotone | 40.011 | 43.133 | -3.122 | 0.92762 | | 65s, paired | 35.840 | 43.133 | -7.293 | 0.83092 | ## Does a shared suit matter? When the hands share a suit, QTs holds 64.80%; when they do not, it holds 61.81%. QTs does better with a shared suit, by 2.99 points. **QTs against 65s by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | QTs wins | Ties | 65s wins | QTs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 4 | 25.00 | 64.293 | 1.020 | 34.687 | 64.803 | | No shared suit | 12 | 75.00 | 61.366 | 0.886 | 37.748 | 61.809 | ## How often this matchup comes up The class pair covers 16 combinations of specific cards in a fixed seat order, 0.0010% of 1,624,350, and 32 (0.0020%) in either order. ## A worked example Worked example: both players commit $100, so $200 sits in the middle. Over every board, QTs' average share is $125.12 (a gain of $25.12) and 65s' is $74.88 (a loss of $25.12). Out of 1,000 deals you should see around 621 outright wins for QTs, 370 for 65s, and 9 split pots. ## The same matchup from the other side The mirror image, 65s against QTs, is 37.44% to 62.56%, and its address redirects to this page. ## Keep exploring Try QsTs against 6h5h 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 QsTs against 6h5h in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=QsTs&p2=6h5h) - [QTs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/qts.md) - [65s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/65s.md) - [QTs vs 54s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qts-vs-54s.md) - [QTs vs 64s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qts-vs-64s.md) - [A4s vs 65s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a4s-vs-65s.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed We counted every case. Each suit pattern of the 16 specific QTs against 65s deals meets all 1,712,304 boards, and the better five-card hand wins; a split pot is half a win each. The flop table reads each board under all ten of its three-card flops. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [QTs vs 54s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qts-vs-54s.md) - [QTs vs 64s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qts-vs-64s.md) - [A4s vs 65s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a4s-vs-65s.md)