QTs vs JTo: preflop equity

QTs against JTo: the numbers

QTs, a suited hand, plays JTo, an offsuit hand. The two hands share a rank, and the one with the better other card dominates: it wins most kicker battles when that shared rank hits.

QTs is the clear favorite, though JTo gets there on roughly one board in 4. 3.68% of boards are ties, so the equity of each hand is its win rate plus half of that.

For context, QTs sits at number 34 of 169 starting hands and JTo at number 57 when each is run against a random hand.

36 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.

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

Across the five flop textures QTs' equity moves by 15.40 points, from 66.43% on monotone flops to 81.83% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower). QTs stays ahead on all five textures, but the swing between them is large, so how the flop looks matters a great deal.

A rainbow flop shows three suits, a two-tone flop repeats one suit, a monotone flop is a single suit, and a paired flop repeats a rank.

Compared with a random hand

The table below sets each hand against its own random-hand baseline: a change of +14.70 points for QTs, from 59.47%, and -29.42 for JTo, from 55.25%.

Does a shared suit matter?

When the hands share a suit, QTs holds 74.03%; when they do not, it holds 74.25%. The two rows differ by only 0.22 points, so suits barely change this matchup.

How often this matchup comes up

The class pair covers 36 combinations of specific cards in a fixed seat order, 0.0022% of 1,624,350, and 72 (0.0044%) in either order.

A worked example

With $100 from each side, the $200 pot is split on average as $148.34 for QTs and $51.66 for JTo; the first side gains $48.34 per all-in and the second gives up $48.34.

Per 1,000 deals: QTs wins about 723, JTo wins about 240, and about 37 end in a split pot.

The same matchup from the other side

The mirror image, JTo against QTs, is 25.83% to 74.17%, and its address redirects to this page.

Keep exploring

QsTs against JhTd 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 JhTd in the equity calculator
• QTs combos
• JTo combos
• QTs vs T9s
• QTs vs 33
• A4s vs JTo
• All hand matchups