76s vs 43s: preflop equity

If 76s and 43s get all the chips in before the flop, 76s owns 62.82% of the pot in the long run and 43s owns 37.18%.

76s

62.82%

Wins 59.40%, ties 6.86%

43s

37.18%

Wins 33.74%, ties 6.86%

Equity counts a tie as half a win. Exact over every board.

76s against 43s: the numbers

Exact preflop results for 76s against 43s, in percent
HandWinsTiesLosesEquity
76s59.3966.85733.74762.824
43s33.7476.85759.39637.176

Two suited hands meet here: 76s against 43s. The two hands share no rank, which makes this a pure matchup of card strength, straight chances and flush chances.

A 25.64 point lead is real, and 43s still takes about 337 of every 1,000 deals outright. Of every 100 boards, about 6.86 are split pots, and the equity figures already include them.

Ranked by equity against a random hand, 76s is number 115 of the 169 starting hands and 43s is number 150.

Boards behind the percentages: 27,396,864 counted in all
HandBoards won, aboutBoards tied, aboutBoards lost, about
76s16,273,0001,879,0009,246,000
43s9,246,0001,879,00016,273,000

16 specific deals times 1,712,304 boards gives the exact total. The won, tied and lost counts are approximations from the five-decimal percentages, rounded to the nearest thousand.

76s against 43s read as odds
HandEquity as odds (to 1)Wins one deal inLoses one deal inPot odds needed to call (to 1)
76s1.6901.6842.9630.592
43s0.5922.9631.6841.690

The last column is the smallest pot odds, written as a pot-to-call ratio, at which a call breaks even with this equity.

Who is ahead on which flops

By flop texture, 76s' equity runs from 60.84% on monotone flops up to 64.93% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower). 76s stays ahead on all five textures.

76s against 43s by flop texture, in percent
FlopShare of flops76s winsTies43s wins76s equity
Rainbow, ten or higher25.84460.5436.51332.94463.800
Rainbow, nine or lower5.06564.4870.89234.62164.933
Two-tone46.72760.5064.90434.59062.958
Monotone5.27357.4896.70535.80660.842
Paired17.09153.70614.52831.76660.970

Flop types: rainbow means three different suits, two-tone means one suit twice, monotone means one suit three times, paired means a repeated rank.

Compared with a random hand

Against one random hand instead, 76s holds 45.37% and 43s holds 38.64%. Facing each other changes that by +17.45 points for 76s and -1.46 points for 43s.

76s and 43s here compared with each against a random hand, in percent
CaseEquity hereAgainst a random handChange in pointsTimes the random-hand equity
76s, all flops62.82445.372+17.4521.38464
76s, rainbow, ten or higher63.80045.372+18.4281.40615
76s, rainbow, nine or lower64.93345.372+19.5611.43112
76s, two-tone62.95845.372+17.5861.38760
76s, monotone60.84245.372+15.4701.34096
76s, paired60.97045.372+15.5981.34378
43s, all flops37.17638.642-1.4660.96206
43s, rainbow, ten or higher36.20038.642-2.4420.93680
43s, rainbow, nine or lower35.06738.642-3.5750.90748
43s, two-tone37.04238.642-1.6000.95859
43s, monotone39.15838.642+0.5161.01335
43s, paired39.03038.642+0.3881.01004

Does a shared suit matter?

Split by suits, the deals give 76s 65.26% when the hands overlap in a suit and 62.01% when they do not. 76s does better with a shared suit, by 3.25 points.

76s against 43s by suit overlap, in percent
DealsSpecific dealsShare of deals76s winsTies43s wins76s equity
Share a suit425.0061.5767.36431.06065.258
No shared suit1275.0058.6696.68834.64362.013

How often this matchup comes up

How often does it happen? 16 of the 1,624,350 ordered deals (0.0010%) are 76s against 43s, and 32 (0.0020%) if either hand may sit in either seat.

A worked example

Say each player puts $100 in before the flop, making a $200 pot. On average 76s takes back $125.64 of it, which is $25.64 more than it put in, and 43s takes back $74.36, $25.64 less than it put in.

Over a long run, 1,000 deals split into about 594 for 76s, 337 for 43s and 69 tied.

The same matchup from the other side

Swap the hands and you get 43s with 37.18% against 76s with 62.82%. We keep one page per matchup, with the better-ranked hand first.

7s6s against 4h3h is a ready-made deal for the calculator, with no suit in common between the hands. The neighboring matchups below replace one hand with another of similar strength.

How this was computed

The page is built from a full enumeration: 1,712,304 boards, every suit pattern of the 16 specific deals, both seven-card hands evaluated. A tie is worth half a win to each hand, and a board is tallied under each of its ten possible flops for the texture rows.

Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used.

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