QJs vs a nit's range: Equity & Strategy

Queen-Jack Suited (QJs) has 35.5% equity all-in preflop against a nit's range — 104 combos, 7.8% of all starting hands. It wins 35.0% of runouts outright, loses 64.1% and chops 0.9%. These are exact figures from full board enumeration against every unblocked combo in the range, not a simulation.

The range this is computed against

The rock at the table: 77+, ATs+, KQs and AJo+, a shade under 8% of hands. A nit almost never has a marginal holding — when they put money in voluntarily, the range is close to this and their bluff frequency is close to zero.

nit — 104 combos, 7.8% of all starting hands: AA, KK, QQ, JJ, TT, 99, 88, 77, AKs, AQs, AJs, ATs, KQs, AKo, AQo, AJo

After card removal, 89 of those 104 combos are still available (15 are blocked by the cards QJs holds). QJs is ahead of 6 and behind 83.

Hardest parts of the range for QJs

Easiest parts of the range for QJs

Against a nit's range (104 combos, 7.8% of all hands), QJs runs at 35.5%. It wins 35.0% of runouts outright, loses 64.1% and splits the remaining 0.9%. Your own two cards remove 15 of those combos before the flop is even dealt — a blocker effect this number already accounts for, because every combo containing one of your exact cards is stripped out of the range first. You are ahead of only 6 of the 89 combos still live (7%) — the rest of the range is level with or in front of you, which is why the figure sits below even money.

Where does the range come from? The rock at the table: 77+, ATs+, KQs and AJo+, a shade under 8% of hands. A nit almost never has a marginal holding — when they put money in voluntarily, the range is close to this and their bluff frequency is close to zero. Broken down hand by hand, QJs does worst against QQ (15.8%), KK (17.7%) and AA (19.1%) and best against 77 (50.4%), 88 (49.1%) and 99 (48.1%). Across the whole range QJs's equity swings from 15.8% at the bottom to 50.4% at the top — the single 35.5% headline is the combo-weighted average of all of it.

Against a nit, the range is the whole story: 7.8% of hands, no bluffs, and QJs at 35.5%. 35.5% against a range with no bluffs in it means folding is not weak, it is correct. The classic leak is paying off a rock with a hand that is "too good to fold".

QJs vs nit FAQ

What is QJs's equity against a nit's range?

QJs has 35.5% equity all-in preflop against a nit's range — it wins 35.0% of runouts outright, loses 64.1% and chops 0.9%. The range holds 104 combos (7.8% of all hands); QJs blocks 15 of them, leaving 89 live. This is exact full board enumeration, not a simulation.

Which hands in a nit's range beat QJs?

QJs is behind 83 of the 89 live combos and ahead of the other 6. The worst matchups are QQ (15.8%), KK (17.7%) and AA (19.1%); its best are 77 (50.4%), 88 (49.1%) and 99 (48.1%). Every figure is exact, computed against that hand's unblocked combos only.

What hands are in a nit's range?

16 hand classes and 104 combos — 7.8% of the 1,326 possible starting hands. By combo count it is 46% pocket pairs (8 pairs, 48 combos), 19% suited hands (5 classes, 20 combos) and 35% offsuit hands (3 classes, 36 combos). That shape is why QJs runs at 35.5% against it rather than against a random hand.

Does QJs do better against a wider or a tighter range?

Wider, almost always. QJs has 52.8% equity against a loose-passive calling range (50.5% of hands) but 31.6% against a 4-betting range (3.2%). Equity against a range is mostly a question of how many weak hands the range still contains — which is why the same holding can be a monster against a button open and a fold against a 4-bet.

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