--- title: "TT vs QTo: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-qto.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-qto" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "TT is a big favorite over QTo before the flop: 66.43% to 33.57% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-44.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-j9s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/99-vs-qto.md"] --- # TT vs QTo: preflop equity TT is a big favorite over QTo before the flop: 66.43% to 33.57% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. If TT and QTo get all the chips in before the flop, TT owns 66.43% of the pot in the long run and QTo owns 33.57%. ## TT against QTo: the numbers **Exact preflop results for TT against QTo, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | TT | 65.428 | 1.997 | 32.575 | 66.427 | | QTo | 32.575 | 1.997 | 65.428 | 33.573 | TT is a pocket pair and QTo is an offsuit hand. One hand holds a card of the same rank as the pair, which removes a card the pair needs and makes the pair a bigger favorite. That is a clear edge, 66.43% to 33.57%, but QTo still wins often enough that one hand proves nothing. Ties are 2.00% of the outcomes here; each tied board gives both hands half the pot. By strength against a random hand, TT holds place 5 of 169 and QTo holds place 47. **Boards behind the percentages: 61,642,944 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | TT | 40,332,000 | 1,231,000 | 20,080,000 | | QTo | 20,080,000 | 1,231,000 | 40,332,000 | The total is exact: 36 specific deals times 1,712,304 boards. The three counts are approximate, worked out from the percentages to five decimals and rounded to the nearest thousand. **TT against QTo 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 | 1.979 | 1.528 | 3.070 | 0.505 | | QTo | 0.505 | 3.070 | 1.528 | 1.979 | The final column gives the least the pot must offer for each unit called for a call to break even at this equity. ## Who is ahead on which flops Across the five flop textures TT's equity moves by 23.26 points, from 59.76% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better to 83.02% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower). TT stays ahead on all five textures, but the swing between them is large, so how the flop looks matters a great deal. **TT against QTo by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | TT wins | Ties | QTo wins | TT equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 23.053 | 58.724 | 2.079 | 39.197 | 59.763 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 7.771 | 81.566 | 2.915 | 15.519 | 83.023 | | Two-tone | 46.215 | 63.865 | 2.184 | 33.951 | 64.957 | | Monotone | 5.130 | 58.766 | 2.494 | 38.740 | 60.013 | | Paired | 17.831 | 73.031 | 0.863 | 26.106 | 73.463 | 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 A random hand would give TT 75.01% and QTo 57.29%. Against each other the change is -8.58 points for TT and -23.72 for QTo. **TT and QTo 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 | 66.427 | 75.012 | -8.585 | 0.88555 | | TT, rainbow, ten or higher | 59.763 | 75.012 | -15.249 | 0.79671 | | TT, rainbow, nine or lower | 83.023 | 75.012 | +8.011 | 1.10680 | | TT, two-tone | 64.957 | 75.012 | -10.055 | 0.86595 | | TT, monotone | 60.013 | 75.012 | -14.999 | 0.80005 | | TT, paired | 73.463 | 75.012 | -1.549 | 0.97935 | | QTo, all flops | 33.573 | 57.291 | -23.718 | 0.58601 | | QTo, rainbow, ten or higher | 40.237 | 57.291 | -17.054 | 0.70233 | | QTo, rainbow, nine or lower | 16.977 | 57.291 | -40.314 | 0.29633 | | QTo, two-tone | 35.043 | 57.291 | -22.248 | 0.61167 | | QTo, monotone | 39.987 | 57.291 | -17.304 | 0.69796 | | QTo, paired | 26.537 | 57.291 | -30.754 | 0.46320 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Of the deals of this matchup, 24 share a suit (TT at 66.35%) and 12 do not (66.58%). The two rows differ by only 0.23 points, so suits barely change this matchup. **TT against QTo by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | TT wins | Ties | QTo wins | TT equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 24 | 66.67 | 65.333 | 2.032 | 32.635 | 66.349 | | No shared suit | 12 | 33.33 | 65.619 | 1.926 | 32.455 | 66.582 | ## How often this matchup comes up You will meet this exact matchup 0.0044% of the time in a random heads-up deal: 72 of 1,624,350, counting either seat order. ## A worked example With $100 from each side, the $200 pot is split on average as $132.86 for TT and $67.14 for QTo; the first side gains $32.86 per all-in and the second gives up $32.86. Out of 1,000 deals you should see around 654 outright wins for TT, 326 for QTo, and 20 split pots. ## The same matchup from the other side Swap the hands and you get QTo with 33.57% against TT with 66.43%. We keep one page per matchup, with the better-ranked hand first. ## Keep exploring TsTh against QdTc 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 QdTc in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=TsTh&p2=QdTc) - [TT combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/tt.md) - [QTo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/qto.md) - [TT vs 44](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-44.md) - [TT vs J9s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-j9s.md) - [99 vs QTo](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/99-vs-qto.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed This is an exact count with no sampling. For the 36 ways to deal one TT and one QTo without reusing a card, grouped by suit pattern, every one of the 1,712,304 possible boards is dealt and both seven-card hands are compared. A tie counts as half a win in the equity column, and each board is counted once under each of its ten three-card flops. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [TT vs 44: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-44.md) - [TT vs J9s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/tt-vs-j9s.md) - [99 vs QTo: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/99-vs-qto.md)