--- title: "QTs vs JTo: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qts-vs-jto.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qts-vs-jto" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "QTs is a big favorite over JTo before the flop: 74.17% to 25.83% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qts-vs-t9s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qts-vs-33.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a4s-vs-jto.md"] --- # QTs vs JTo: preflop equity QTs is a big favorite over JTo before the flop: 74.17% to 25.83% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Counting every board, the equity split is 74.17% for QTs and 25.83% for JTo, so QTs leads by 48.34 points. ## QTs against JTo: the numbers **Exact preflop results for QTs against JTo, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QTs | 72.332 | 3.684 | 23.984 | 74.174 | | JTo | 23.984 | 3.684 | 72.332 | 25.826 | 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. **Boards behind the percentages: 61,642,944 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QTs | 44,588,000 | 2,271,000 | 14,784,000 | | JTo | 14,784,000 | 2,271,000 | 44,588,000 | 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. **QTs against JTo 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 | 2.872 | 1.383 | 4.169 | 0.348 | | JTo | 0.348 | 4.169 | 1.383 | 2.872 | 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. **QTs against JTo by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | QTs wins | Ties | JTo wins | QTs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.177 | 69.775 | 3.702 | 26.523 | 71.626 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.771 | 81.310 | 1.033 | 17.657 | 81.827 | | Two-tone | 46.527 | 72.775 | 2.892 | 24.333 | 74.221 | | Monotone | 5.192 | 64.276 | 4.299 | 31.425 | 66.425 | | Paired | 17.333 | 72.951 | 6.792 | 20.257 | 76.347 | 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%. **QTs and JTo 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 | 74.174 | 59.468 | +14.706 | 1.24729 | | QTs, rainbow, ten or higher | 71.626 | 59.468 | +12.158 | 1.20445 | | QTs, rainbow, nine or lower | 81.827 | 59.468 | +22.359 | 1.37598 | | QTs, two-tone | 74.221 | 59.468 | +14.753 | 1.24808 | | QTs, monotone | 66.425 | 59.468 | +6.957 | 1.11699 | | QTs, paired | 76.347 | 59.468 | +16.879 | 1.28383 | | JTo, all flops | 25.826 | 55.248 | -29.422 | 0.46746 | | JTo, rainbow, ten or higher | 28.374 | 55.248 | -26.874 | 0.51358 | | JTo, rainbow, nine or lower | 18.173 | 55.248 | -37.075 | 0.32893 | | JTo, two-tone | 25.779 | 55.248 | -29.469 | 0.46661 | | JTo, monotone | 33.575 | 55.248 | -21.673 | 0.60771 | | JTo, paired | 23.653 | 55.248 | -31.595 | 0.42812 | ## 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. **QTs against JTo by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | QTs wins | Ties | JTo wins | QTs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 12 | 33.33 | 72.138 | 3.782 | 24.080 | 74.029 | | No shared suit | 24 | 66.67 | 72.428 | 3.636 | 23.936 | 74.246 | ## 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](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=QsTs&p2=JhTd) - [QTs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/qts.md) - [JTo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/jto.md) - [QTs vs T9s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qts-vs-t9s.md) - [QTs vs 33](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qts-vs-33.md) - [A4s vs JTo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a4s-vs-jto.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed We counted every case. Each suit pattern of the 36 specific QTs against JTo 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 T9s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qts-vs-t9s.md) - [QTs vs 33: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qts-vs-33.md) - [A4s vs JTo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a4s-vs-jto.md)