Suited and preferably harts. The biggest pots I have won was with this hand. If I had to marry right now, I would choose this hand as my wife. It gives me more confidence to play it then AA. It goes all ways and when I play it, 8 out of 10 times a Q or a 9 hits the flop. If someone has way a better preflophand, like KK, I smile for a month when the flop is K J 10. For fun, when I play with friends I promise them a bonus of $10,- if he or she wins a pot with my favorite hand. If he or she is able to crack Ace's or Kings with Q 9, you win the jackpot and you will get my entire stack. It was in a way funny to me when I got a lot of reactions when Jamie Gold won the WSOP last year when his last hand was Q 9