QQ vs AJ
A pair of queens against ace-jack, all in before the flop. The ace is the only card in ace-jack that beats the pair on its own.
Also written as queens vs ace-jack. Suitedness variants: QQ vs AJs and QQ vs AJo.
The numbers
a pair of queens
70.7%
equity
AJ
ace-jack
29.3%
equity
| Outcome | Share of boards |
|---|---|
| QQ wins | 70.5% |
| AJ wins | 29.1% |
| Split pot | 0.4% |
Exact, not simulated. QQ means a pair of queens and AJ means ace-jack: 96 legal ways to deal the two hands, and every one of the 1,712,304 possible five-card boards dealt for each — 164,381,184 board-and-hand combinations in total, each one scored by the same evaluator the calculator uses. Combinations that are the same hand with the suits renamed were counted once and weighted by how many they stand for: 6 distinct suit patterns stand in for all 96, which is the same answer for 16 times less work.
Why it comes out this way
The pair of queens is ahead before the flop, and only one of ace-jack's cards — the ace — beats it on its own. Three aces and three jacks are still in the deck.
Ace-jack wins 29.1% of the time: pairing the ace is the common way, while pairing the jack is not enough on its own, because the pair of queens still beats a pair of jacks.
Suitedness is part of the answer: against the pair of queens, AJs wins 31.8% and AJo wins 28.2%. The AJ wins figure in the table is the average of both, weighted the way they actually come out of a deck — one suited combination for every three offsuit.
The pot is split 0.4% of the time.
Open it in the calculator
The link below deals one typical version of this matchup — Qof spadesQof hearts against Aof spadesJof diamonds — into the calculator, with both hands set and the board empty. Add community cards one at a time to watch the equity move, or change a card to see how much the suits are worth.