--- title: "QTs vs 75s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qts-vs-75s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qts-vs-75s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "QTs is a big favorite over 75s 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/qts-vs-65s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qts-vs-54s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a4s-vs-75s.md"] --- # QTs vs 75s: preflop equity QTs is a big favorite over 75s 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 75s, which leaves 75s with 36.26%. ## QTs against 75s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for QTs against 75s, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QTs | 63.279 | 0.927 | 35.794 | 63.743 | | 75s | 35.794 | 0.927 | 63.279 | 36.257 | Each side holds one of the suited hands: QTs and 75s. Neither hand shares a rank with the other, so this is a contest of high cards, connection and suits. A 27.48 point lead is real, and 75s still takes about 358 of every 1,000 deals outright. Ties are 0.93% of the outcomes here; each tied board gives both hands half the pot. In the ranking of all 169 starting hands, QTs is number 34 and 75s is number 124. **Boards behind the percentages: 27,396,864 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QTs | 17,336,000 | 254,000 | 9,806,000 | | 75s | 9,806,000 | 254,000 | 17,336,000 | 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 75s 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 | 1.580 | 2.794 | 0.569 | | 75s | 0.569 | 2.794 | 1.580 | 1.758 | 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 Break the boards down by their first three cards and QTs is strongest on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better (71.06%) and weakest on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) (38.01%). The lead reverses on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower): there 75s is the favorite even though QTs is ahead overall. **QTs against 75s by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | QTs wins | Ties | 75s wins | QTs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 24.595 | 70.824 | 0.480 | 28.696 | 71.064 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 6.314 | 37.739 | 0.541 | 61.720 | 38.010 | | Two-tone | 46.727 | 63.031 | 0.456 | 36.513 | 63.259 | | Monotone | 5.273 | 59.114 | 3.563 | 37.323 | 60.896 | | Paired | 17.091 | 63.821 | 2.186 | 33.993 | 64.914 | 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 +4.27 points and 75s from 43.68% by -7.42 points. **QTs and 75s 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 | 63.743 | 59.468 | +4.275 | 1.07189 | | QTs, rainbow, ten or higher | 71.064 | 59.468 | +11.596 | 1.19500 | | QTs, rainbow, nine or lower | 38.010 | 59.468 | -21.458 | 0.63917 | | QTs, two-tone | 63.259 | 59.468 | +3.791 | 1.06375 | | QTs, monotone | 60.896 | 59.468 | +1.428 | 1.02401 | | QTs, paired | 64.914 | 59.468 | +5.446 | 1.09158 | | 75s, all flops | 36.257 | 43.676 | -7.419 | 0.83014 | | 75s, rainbow, ten or higher | 28.936 | 43.676 | -14.740 | 0.66251 | | 75s, rainbow, nine or lower | 61.990 | 43.676 | +18.314 | 1.41931 | | 75s, two-tone | 36.741 | 43.676 | -6.935 | 0.84122 | | 75s, monotone | 39.104 | 43.676 | -4.572 | 0.89532 | | 75s, paired | 35.086 | 43.676 | -8.590 | 0.80332 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Suit overlap shows up in the numbers. With a suit in common QTs has 66.14% equity, and with none in common it has 62.95%. QTs does better with a shared suit, by 3.19 points. **QTs against 75s by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | QTs wins | Ties | 75s wins | QTs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 4 | 25.00 | 65.621 | 1.029 | 33.350 | 66.136 | | No shared suit | 12 | 75.00 | 62.498 | 0.893 | 36.609 | 62.945 | ## How often this matchup comes up Counting specific cards, QTs against 75s 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 Try it with money: two players each put in $100 and the whole board runs out every possible way. QTs averages $127.48 from the $200, up $27.48; 75s averages $72.52, down $27.48. Think in thousands: about 633 of 1,000 go to QTs, about 358 go to 75s, and about 9 are chopped. ## The same matchup from the other side Read it from the other side: 75s against QTs is the same matchup with the numbers swapped, so 75s holds 36.26% and QTs holds 63.74%. That address sends you back to this page. ## Keep exploring Try QsTs against 7h5h 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 7h5h in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=QsTs&p2=7h5h) - [QTs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/qts.md) - [75s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/75s.md) - [QTs vs 65s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qts-vs-65s.md) - [QTs vs 54s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qts-vs-54s.md) - [A4s vs 75s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a4s-vs-75s.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 65s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qts-vs-65s.md) - [QTs vs 54s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qts-vs-54s.md) - [A4s vs 75s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a4s-vs-75s.md)