QTs preflop: queen-ten suited

Queen-ten suited has 59.5% against a random hand, the 34th best of the 169 starting hands. Below are its odds against every hand and on the flop, and what the charts do with it from each seat.

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Quick answers

Is QTs a good hand?

QTs ranks 34th of the 169 starting hands by against a random hand, in the top 20% of hand classes. Classes have different numbers of card combinations; this is not a deal-frequency percentile. First in at 100bb, the charts say: raise from every seat.

What is QTs's equity against AA?

19.5% all in before the flop.

How often does QTs hit the flop?

QTs makes one pair or better on 47.9% of flops, counting pairs on the board, and two pair or better on 7.5%.

QTs against common hands

for QTs all in before the flop. The line marks 50%; linked hands have their own matchup page.
  • AA19.5%
  • KK18.1%
  • QQ16.2%
  • JJ32.8%
  • TT37.3%
  • 7750.3%
  • 2252.9%
  • AKs36.8%
  • AKo39.3%
  • AQo31.4%
  • AJo42.0%
  • KQs29.4%
  • KQo30.4%
  • JTs70.2%
  • T9s69.2%
  • 72o70.3%

QTs against every hand

Each cell is QTs's in percent against that hand, all in before the flop. Blue cells are hands QTs is ahead of, red cells hands it is behind.

Under 20%20–35%35–45%45–55%55–65%65–80%80% and up

QTs equity against each of the 169 hands, in percent
AA 20AKs 37AQs 30AJs 39ATs 30A9s 44A8s 44A7s 45A6s 45A5s 44A4s 44A3s 44A2s 45
AKo 39KK 18KQs 29KJs 38KTs 29K9s 43K8s 44K7s 45K6s 45K5s 45K4s 45K3s 45K2s 45
AQo 31KQo 30QQ 16QJs 30QTs 50Q9s 69Q8s 69Q7s 69Q6s 69Q5s 69Q4s 69Q3s 70Q2s 70
AJo 42KJo 41QJo 31JJ 33JTs 70J9s 63J8s 64J7s 65J6s 66J5s 65J4s 65J3s 66J2s 66
ATo 31KTo 30QTo 52JTo 74TT 37T9s 69T8s 70T7s 71T6s 71T5s 72T4s 72T3s 72T2s 73
A9o 46K9o 46Q9o 73J9o 66T9o 7399 4898s 6497s 6496s 6595s 6694s 6893s 6892s 68
A8o 47K8o 47Q8o 73J8o 67T8o 7498o 6688 4987s 6386s 6485s 6584s 6683s 6782s 67
A7o 47K7o 47Q7o 73J7o 68T7o 7597o 6787o 6677 5076s 6375s 6474s 6573s 6672s 67
A6o 47K6o 47Q6o 73J6o 69T6o 7596o 6886o 6776o 6666 5065s 6364s 6363s 6562s 66
A5o 47K5o 48Q5o 73J5o 68T5o 7695o 6985o 6875o 6765o 6555 5154s 6253s 6452s 65
A4o 47K4o 48Q4o 73J4o 68T4o 7694o 7184o 6974o 6864o 6654o 6544 5243s 6442s 65
A3o 47K3o 48Q3o 74J3o 69T3o 7793o 7183o 7073o 6963o 6853o 6743o 6733 5232s 65
A2o 47K2o 48Q2o 74J2o 69T2o 7792o 7182o 7072o 7062o 6952o 6842o 6832o 6822 53

Cells with a matchup page are links.

Compare starting hands

Against one random hand, QTs has and QTo has 57.29%: 2.18 percentage points more for QTs.

against one to eight random opponents

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0%25%50%75%100%12345678OpponentsQTs, 1 opponent: 59.47%QTs, 2 opponents: 43.50%QTs, 3 opponents: 34.68%QTs, 4 opponents: 29.22%QTs, 5 opponents: 24.70%QTs, 6 opponents: 22.28%QTs, 7 opponents: 20.01%QTs, 8 opponents: 18.03%QTo, 1 opponent: 57.29%QTo, 2 opponents: 40.24%QTo, 3 opponents: 31.23%QTo, 4 opponents: 25.79%QTo, 5 opponents: 21.80%QTo, 6 opponents: 18.73%QTo, 7 opponents: 16.56%QTo, 8 opponents: 14.53%
  • QTs: 59.47%
  • QTo: 57.29%
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Equity by number of random opponents
OpponentsQTsQTo
159.47%57.29%
243.50%40.24%
334.68%31.23%
429.22%25.79%
524.70%21.80%
622.28%18.73%
720.01%16.56%
818.03%14.53%

The one-opponent values are exact. Two to eight opponents use 100,000 seeded deals per point; small differences can be sampling noise. All opponents have random hands. These curves do not measure profit or account for position, betting or opponents folding.

QTs versus QTo: what suited changes

Against a random hand, QTs has 59.47% and QTo has 57.29%: a 2.18 percentage-point advantage for QTs. This is showdown equity, not a prediction of profit.

Exact flop probabilities for suited and offsuit starting hands
Hand
QTs10.94%0.83%
QTo2.24%0.00%

All 19,600 flops are counted. A flush draw has four cards of one suit, uses at least one hole card, and has not already made a flush or better. The flush column excludes straight flushes.

QTs on the flop

The best five-card hand QTs holds after the flop, over all 19,600 flops. Pairs on the board count.
  • High card52.1%
  • One pair40.4%
  • Two pair4.0%
  • Three of a kind1.6%
  • Straight1.0%
  • Flush0.8%
  • Full house0.1%
  • Four of a kind0.0%
  • Straight flush0.0%
Draws on the flop, counted only when the hand has not already made that straight or flush or better.
  • Flush draw10.9%
  • Open-ended straight draw6.9%
  • Gutshot14.6%

How to play QTs

Suited cards close in rank make straights and flushes more often than other unpaired hands, and seldom make a strong one pair.

First in

Raise from every seat.

Facing a raise

Fold from middle position and the cutoff; 3-bet 65%, fold 20% and call 15% from the button; 3-bet 45%, fold 45% and call 10% from the small blind; call 70% and 3-bet 30% from the big blind.

Facing a 3-bet

Call from the cutoff, the button and the big blind; call 80% and fold 20% from under the gun; call 75% and fold 25% from middle position.

From the six-handed 100bb charts. A percentage means the chart mixes actions with this hand.

What each chart does with QTs

Six-handed cash charts at 100 big blinds. A spot marked mix plays QTs more than one way.

Where these numbers come from

Heads-up equity comes from the same preflop table the odds calculator uses, which averages each pair of hands over every board and suit pattern. Against a random hand, your own two cards make some hands less likely: holding an ace leaves three aces for the other player, so each hand counts once for every way it can still be dealt. Equity against several players is sampled with a fixed seed, so it can move by a few tenths of a point from the exact figure. The flop figures count every one of the 19,600 flops.

All 169 starting hands