--- title: "QTs vs JTs: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qts-vs-jts.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qts-vs-jts" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "QTs is a big favorite over JTs before the flop: 70.17% to 29.83% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qts-vs-a2s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qts-vs-qto.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a4s-vs-jts.md"] --- # QTs vs JTs: preflop equity QTs is a big favorite over JTs before the flop: 70.17% to 29.83% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Before any board card is dealt, QTs holds 70.17% equity against JTs, which leaves JTs with 29.83%. ## QTs against JTs: the numbers **Exact preflop results for QTs against JTs, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QTs | 68.368 | 3.601 | 28.031 | 70.168 | | JTs | 28.031 | 3.601 | 68.368 | 29.832 | QTs and JTs are both suited hands. Sharing a rank is the signature of a dominated hand, since the weaker hand is usually out-kicked when the shared rank shows up. QTs is the clear favorite, though JTs gets there on roughly one board in 3. Ties are part of the picture: 3.60% of boards end in a split pot, and each side counts that as half a win. By strength against a random hand, QTs holds place 34 of 169 and JTs holds place 45. **Boards behind the percentages: 20,547,648 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QTs | 14,048,000 | 740,000 | 5,760,000 | | JTs | 5,760,000 | 740,000 | 14,048,000 | 12 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 JTs 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 | 2.352 | 1.463 | 3.567 | 0.425 | | JTs | 0.425 | 3.567 | 1.463 | 2.352 | The last column is the smallest pot odds, written as a pot-to-call ratio, at which a call breaks even with this equity. ## Who is ahead on which flops Across the five flop textures QTs' equity moves by 15.66 points, from 63.35% on monotone flops to 79.01% 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 JTs by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | QTs wins | Ties | JTs wins | QTs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.138 | 67.649 | 3.636 | 28.715 | 69.467 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.771 | 78.515 | 0.987 | 20.498 | 79.009 | | Two-tone | 46.543 | 67.659 | 2.732 | 29.609 | 69.025 | | Monotone | 5.215 | 60.775 | 5.149 | 34.076 | 63.349 | | Paired | 17.333 | 68.968 | 6.592 | 24.440 | 72.264 | 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 Against one random hand instead, QTs holds 59.47% and JTs holds 57.53%. Facing each other changes that by +10.70 points for QTs and -27.70 points for JTs. **QTs and JTs 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 | 70.168 | 59.468 | +10.700 | 1.17993 | | QTs, rainbow, ten or higher | 69.467 | 59.468 | +9.999 | 1.16814 | | QTs, rainbow, nine or lower | 79.009 | 59.468 | +19.541 | 1.32860 | | QTs, two-tone | 69.025 | 59.468 | +9.557 | 1.16071 | | QTs, monotone | 63.349 | 59.468 | +3.881 | 1.06526 | | QTs, paired | 72.264 | 59.468 | +12.796 | 1.21517 | | JTs, all flops | 29.832 | 57.528 | -27.696 | 0.51856 | | JTs, rainbow, ten or higher | 30.533 | 57.528 | -26.995 | 0.53075 | | JTs, rainbow, nine or lower | 20.991 | 57.528 | -36.537 | 0.36488 | | JTs, two-tone | 30.975 | 57.528 | -26.553 | 0.53843 | | JTs, monotone | 36.651 | 57.528 | -20.877 | 0.63710 | | JTs, paired | 27.736 | 57.528 | -29.792 | 0.48213 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Every legal deal of QTs against JTs leaves the hands with no suit in common, so the suit split does not apply here. **QTs against JTs by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | QTs wins | Ties | JTs wins | QTs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 0 | 0.00 | not possible | not possible | not possible | not possible | | No shared suit | 12 | 100.00 | 68.368 | 3.601 | 28.031 | 70.168 | ## How often this matchup comes up This page stands for 12 specific-card matchups (0.0007% of 1,624,350 ordered deals), or 24 once you count the seats both ways (0.0015%). ## A worked example To see what the equity is worth, imagine $100 each in a $200 pot. QTs is worth $140.34 on average (+$40.34); JTs is worth $59.66 (-$40.34). Over a long run, 1,000 deals split into about 684 for QTs, 280 for JTs and 36 tied. ## The same matchup from the other side One page covers both views. From JTs' side the equity is 29.83%, and from QTs' side it is 70.17%. ## Keep exploring QsTs against JhTh 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 JhTh in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=QsTs&p2=JhTh) - [QTs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/qts.md) - [JTs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/jts.md) - [QTs vs A2s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qts-vs-a2s.md) - [QTs vs QTo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qts-vs-qto.md) - [A4s vs JTs](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a4s-vs-jts.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed We counted every case. Each suit pattern of the 12 specific QTs against JTs 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 A2s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qts-vs-a2s.md) - [QTs vs QTo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qts-vs-qto.md) - [A4s vs JTs: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a4s-vs-jts.md)