--- title: "TT vs QJs: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-qjs.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-qjs" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "Who is ahead, TT or QJs? TT leads 53.01% to 46.99% before the flop, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-k9s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-a5s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/99-vs-qjs.md"] --- # TT vs QJs: preflop equity Who is ahead, TT or QJs? TT leads 53.01% to 46.99% before the flop, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Averaged over every possible board, TT is ahead of QJs by 6.02 points of equity, 53.01% to 46.99%. ## TT against QJs: the numbers **Exact preflop results for TT against QJs, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | TT | 52.801 | 0.411 | 46.788 | 53.007 | | QJs | 46.788 | 0.411 | 52.801 | 46.993 | TT, a pocket pair, plays QJs, a suited hand. This is a pair against two overcards, a matchup that stays close because the other hand only needs one of its ranks to appear. This is close to even money, with TT a little ahead. 0.41% of boards are ties, so the equity of each hand is its win rate plus half of that. In the ranking of all 169 starting hands, TT is number 5 and QJs is number 28. **Boards behind the percentages: 41,095,296 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | TT | 21,699,000 | 169,000 | 19,228,000 | | QJs | 19,228,000 | 169,000 | 21,699,000 | Exact total: 24 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. **TT against QJs 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 | 1.128 | 1.894 | 2.137 | 0.887 | | QJs | 0.887 | 2.137 | 1.894 | 1.128 | The last column is the break-even price: the pot odds a call needs to offer, as a ratio of pot to call. ## Who is ahead on which flops Low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) are the best for TT (71.99%); rainbow flops topped by a ten or better are the worst (46.53%). TT is the favorite overall but falls behind on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better. **TT against QJs by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | TT wins | Ties | QJs wins | TT equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.138 | 46.461 | 0.138 | 53.401 | 46.530 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.771 | 71.518 | 0.935 | 27.547 | 71.986 | | Two-tone | 46.545 | 50.487 | 0.309 | 49.204 | 50.641 | | Monotone | 5.212 | 50.166 | 2.395 | 47.439 | 51.364 | | Paired | 17.334 | 59.882 | 0.218 | 39.900 | 59.991 | 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, TT holds 75.01% and QJs holds 60.26%. Facing each other changes that by -22.00 points for TT and -13.27 points for QJs. **TT and QJs 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 | 53.007 | 75.012 | -22.005 | 0.70665 | | TT, rainbow, ten or higher | 46.530 | 75.012 | -28.482 | 0.62030 | | TT, rainbow, nine or lower | 71.986 | 75.012 | -3.026 | 0.95966 | | TT, two-tone | 50.641 | 75.012 | -24.371 | 0.67511 | | TT, monotone | 51.364 | 75.012 | -23.648 | 0.68474 | | TT, paired | 59.991 | 75.012 | -15.021 | 0.79975 | | QJs, all flops | 46.993 | 60.259 | -13.266 | 0.77985 | | QJs, rainbow, ten or higher | 53.470 | 60.259 | -6.789 | 0.88734 | | QJs, rainbow, nine or lower | 28.014 | 60.259 | -32.245 | 0.46489 | | QJs, two-tone | 49.359 | 60.259 | -10.900 | 0.81911 | | QJs, monotone | 48.636 | 60.259 | -11.623 | 0.80712 | | QJs, paired | 40.009 | 60.259 | -20.250 | 0.66395 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Of the deals of this matchup, 12 share a suit (TT at 53.11%) and 12 do not (52.90%). The two rows differ by only 0.21 points, so suits barely change this matchup. **TT against QJs by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | TT wins | Ties | QJs wins | TT equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 12 | 50.00 | 52.885 | 0.451 | 46.664 | 53.111 | | No shared suit | 12 | 50.00 | 52.717 | 0.371 | 46.912 | 52.902 | ## How often this matchup comes up TT against QJs is made up of 24 specific-card matchups in one seat order, 0.0015% of the 1,624,350 ordered deals, and 48 counting both seat orders, 0.0030%. ## A worked example Take a $200 pot built from $100 each. TT's equity of 53.01% is worth $106.02, a $6.02 edge, and QJs' 46.99% is worth $93.98, which is $6.02 under its stake. Over a long run, 1,000 deals split into about 528 for TT, 468 for QJs and 4 tied. ## The same matchup from the other side QJs against TT adds nothing new: it is 46.99% for QJs and 53.01% for TT, the same figures reversed. ## Keep exploring TsTh against QdJd 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 TsTh against QdJd in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=TsTh&p2=QdJd) - [TT combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/tt.md) - [QJs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/qjs.md) - [TT vs K9s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-k9s.md) - [TT vs A5s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-a5s.md) - [99 vs QJs](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/99-vs-qjs.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed All 1,712,304 five-card boards are dealt for every suit pattern among the 24 specific deals of TT against QJs, and both hands are scored on each. That is a full count, so the percentages are exact. Ties are half a win each, and each board appears once per flop it contains. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [TT vs K9s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-k9s.md) - [TT vs A5s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-a5s.md) - [99 vs QJs: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/99-vs-qjs.md)