QQ vs JT
A pair of queens against jack-ten, all in before the flop. A hand built for straights, up against the pair just above it.
Also written as queens vs jack-ten. Suitedness variants: QQ vs JTs and QQ vs JTo.
The numbers
a pair of queens
84.7%
equity
JT
jack-ten
15.3%
equity
| Outcome | Share of boards |
|---|---|
| QQ wins | 84.6% |
| JT wins | 15.1% |
| Split pot | 0.4% |
Exact, not simulated. QQ means a pair of queens and JT means jack-ten: 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 and both of jack-ten's cards are lower than the pair, so pairing up is usually not enough — a jack or a ten on the board still leaves jack-ten behind the pair of queens.
Jack-ten still wins 15.1% of the time, and almost all of it comes from straights, flushes and two pair rather than from pairing one card. Its two ranks sit next to each other, which gives them four different straights to aim at.
Suitedness is part of the answer: against the pair of queens, JTs wins 18.1% and JTo wins 14.0%. The JT 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 Jof spades10of 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.