--- title: "TT vs QJo: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-qjo.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-qjo" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "Who is ahead, TT or QJo? TT leads 55.76% to 44.24% before the flop, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-k9o.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-q9s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/99-vs-qjo.md"] --- # TT vs QJo: preflop equity Who is ahead, TT or QJo? TT leads 55.76% to 44.24% before the flop, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. In equity, TT against QJo stands at 55.76% to 44.24%, a gap of 11.52 points. ## TT against QJo: the numbers **Exact preflop results for TT against QJo, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | TT | 55.559 | 0.393 | 44.048 | 55.756 | | QJo | 44.048 | 0.393 | 55.559 | 44.244 | TT is a pocket pair and QJo is an offsuit hand. A pair against two higher cards is the classic race: the pair is usually a small favorite or close to even, and each overcard that pairs is a way to take the lead. The lead is steady rather than large, and the flop still has plenty of say in who wins. Split pots make up 0.39% of the boards, and both equity figures count them as half a win each. Among the 169 starting hands, TT is number 5 and QJo is number 39 by strength against a random hand. **Boards behind the percentages: 123,285,888 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | TT | 68,496,000 | 485,000 | 54,305,000 | | QJo | 54,305,000 | 485,000 | 68,496,000 | 72 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. **TT against QJo read as odds** | Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | TT | 1.260 | 1.800 | 2.270 | 0.794 | | QJo | 0.794 | 2.270 | 1.800 | 1.260 | 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 Low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) are the best for TT (74.90%); rainbow flops topped by a ten or better are the worst (47.91%). TT is the favorite overall but falls behind on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better. **TT against QJo by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | TT wins | Ties | QJo wins | TT equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.260 | 47.840 | 0.144 | 52.016 | 47.912 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.771 | 74.408 | 0.981 | 24.611 | 74.899 | | Two-tone | 46.485 | 54.135 | 0.339 | 45.526 | 54.305 | | Monotone | 5.151 | 50.724 | 1.717 | 47.559 | 51.582 | | Paired | 17.333 | 62.723 | 0.218 | 37.059 | 62.832 | 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 -19.25 points for TT, from 75.01%, and -13.90 for QJo, from 58.14%. **TT and QJo 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | TT, all flops | 55.756 | 75.012 | -19.256 | 0.74329 | | TT, rainbow, ten or higher | 47.912 | 75.012 | -27.100 | 0.63872 | | TT, rainbow, nine or lower | 74.899 | 75.012 | -0.113 | 0.99849 | | TT, two-tone | 54.305 | 75.012 | -20.707 | 0.72395 | | TT, monotone | 51.582 | 75.012 | -23.430 | 0.68765 | | TT, paired | 62.832 | 75.012 | -12.180 | 0.83763 | | QJo, all flops | 44.244 | 58.135 | -13.891 | 0.76106 | | QJo, rainbow, ten or higher | 52.088 | 58.135 | -6.047 | 0.89598 | | QJo, rainbow, nine or lower | 25.101 | 58.135 | -33.034 | 0.43177 | | QJo, two-tone | 45.695 | 58.135 | -12.440 | 0.78602 | | QJo, monotone | 48.418 | 58.135 | -9.717 | 0.83285 | | QJo, paired | 37.168 | 58.135 | -20.967 | 0.63934 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Looking only at deals where the hands share a suit, TT has 55.67%; looking only at deals where they do not, 56.19%. TT does better with no shared suit, by 0.52 points. **TT against QJo by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | TT wins | Ties | QJo wins | TT equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 60 | 83.33 | 55.464 | 0.409 | 44.127 | 55.669 | | No shared suit | 12 | 16.67 | 56.033 | 0.315 | 43.652 | 56.191 | ## How often this matchup comes up This page stands for 72 specific-card matchups (0.0044% of 1,624,350 ordered deals), or 144 once you count the seats both ways (0.0089%). ## A worked example A $100 all-in from each player makes a $200 pot, and the exact equity says TT gets $111.52 of it on average and QJo gets $88.48. Think in thousands: about 556 of 1,000 go to TT, about 440 go to QJo, and about 4 are chopped. ## The same matchup from the other side QJo versus TT is this same page seen from the other hand: 44.24% for QJo, 55.76% for TT. ## Keep exploring Try TsTh against QdJc 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 TsTh against QdJc in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=TsTh&p2=QdJc) - [TT combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/tt.md) - [QJo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/qjo.md) - [TT vs K9o](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-k9o.md) - [TT vs Q9s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-q9s.md) - [99 vs QJo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/99-vs-qjo.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed Method: exact enumeration. The 72 specific deals are grouped by suit pattern, each is run against all 1,712,304 boards, and both seven-card hands are scored. Equity adds half of every tie, and flop textures are tallied over the ten flops inside each board. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [TT vs K9o: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-k9o.md) - [TT vs Q9s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-q9s.md) - [99 vs QJo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/99-vs-qjo.md)