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title: "76s vs 65s: preflop equity"
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summary: "76s is a big favorite over 65s before the flop: 64.45% to 35.55% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit."
related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/76s-vs-54s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/76s-vs-64s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/75s-vs-65s.md"]
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# 76s vs 65s: preflop equity

76s is a big favorite over 65s before the flop: 64.45% to 35.55% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit.

Before any board card is dealt, 76s holds 64.45% equity against 65s, which leaves 65s with 35.55%.

## 76s against 65s: the numbers

**Exact preflop results for 76s against 65s, in percent**

| Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 76s | 55.960 | 16.974 | 27.066 | 64.447 |
| 65s | 27.066 | 16.974 | 55.960 | 35.553 |

Each side holds one of the suited hands: 76s and 65s. Sharing a rank is the signature of a dominated hand, since the weaker hand is usually out-kicked when the shared rank shows up.

That is a modest edge, the kind that shows up over many hands and is easy to miss in one. Of every 100 boards, about 16.97 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 65s is number 128.

**Boards behind the percentages: 20,547,648 counted in all**

| Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 76s | 11,498,000 | 3,488,000 | 5,561,000 |
| 65s | 5,561,000 | 3,488,000 | 11,498,000 |

The board total is exact, 12 deals at 1,712,304 boards each. Won, tied and lost counts are rounded to the nearest thousand from the five-decimal percentages.

**76s against 65s read as odds**

| Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 76s | 1.813 | 1.787 | 3.695 | 0.552 |
| 65s | 0.552 | 3.695 | 1.787 | 1.813 |

The last column is the break-even price: the pot odds a call needs to offer, as a ratio of pot to call.

## Who is ahead on which flops

If you know the kind of flop that came, the numbers shift: 76s holds 67.14% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better and 59.64% on monotone flops. 76s stays ahead on all five textures.

**76s against 65s by flop texture, in percent**

| Flop | Share of flops | 76s wins | Ties | 65s wins | 76s equity |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Rainbow, ten or higher | 25.844 | 58.619 | 17.038 | 24.343 | 67.138 |
| Rainbow, nine or lower | 5.065 | 55.740 | 11.295 | 32.965 | 61.388 |
| Two-tone | 46.543 | 56.704 | 14.536 | 28.760 | 63.972 |
| Monotone | 5.215 | 52.552 | 14.184 | 33.264 | 59.644 |
| Paired | 17.333 | 51.088 | 25.923 | 22.989 | 64.049 |

Read the flop types this way: rainbow has three suits, two-tone has two cards of one suit, monotone has three, and paired repeats a rank.

## Compared with a random hand

Relative to a random opponent, 76s changes by +19.08 points (baseline 45.37%) and 65s by -7.58 points (baseline 43.13%).

**76s and 65s here compared with each against a random hand, in percent**

| Case | Equity here | Against a random hand | Change in points | Times the random-hand equity |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 76s, all flops | 64.447 | 45.372 | +19.075 | 1.42041 |
| 76s, rainbow, ten or higher | 67.138 | 45.372 | +21.766 | 1.47972 |
| 76s, rainbow, nine or lower | 61.388 | 45.372 | +16.016 | 1.35299 |
| 76s, two-tone | 63.972 | 45.372 | +18.600 | 1.40994 |
| 76s, monotone | 59.644 | 45.372 | +14.272 | 1.31456 |
| 76s, paired | 64.049 | 45.372 | +18.677 | 1.41164 |
| 65s, all flops | 35.553 | 43.133 | -7.580 | 0.82426 |
| 65s, rainbow, ten or higher | 32.862 | 43.133 | -10.271 | 0.76188 |
| 65s, rainbow, nine or lower | 38.612 | 43.133 | -4.521 | 0.89518 |
| 65s, two-tone | 36.028 | 43.133 | -7.105 | 0.83528 |
| 65s, monotone | 40.356 | 43.133 | -2.777 | 0.93562 |
| 65s, paired | 35.951 | 43.133 | -7.182 | 0.83349 |

## Does a shared suit matter?

76s and 65s never overlap in suit in a legal deal, so the whole matchup sits in the no-shared-suit row.

**76s against 65s by suit overlap, in percent**

| Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | 76s wins | Ties | 65s wins | 76s equity |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Share a suit | 0 | 0.00 | not possible | not possible | not possible | not possible |
| No shared suit | 12 | 100.00 | 55.960 | 16.974 | 27.066 | 64.447 |

## How often this matchup comes up

Out of 1,624,350 ways to deal two seats two cards each, 12 are 76s in one seat and 65s in the other (0.0007%); with the seats swapped too, 24 (0.0015%).

## A worked example

Try it with money: two players each put in $100 and the whole board runs out every possible way. 76s averages $128.90 from the $200, up $28.90; 65s averages $71.10, down $28.90.

Per 1,000 deals: 76s wins about 559, 65s wins about 271, and about 170 end in a split pot.

## The same matchup from the other side

If you came looking for 65s against 76s, the numbers are the same with the hands swapped: 35.55% and 64.45%.

## Keep exploring

Try 7s6s against 6h5h in the calculator: the hands share no suit, and every card can be changed. The links after it are the closest matchups in the ranking.

- [Open 7s6s against 6h5h in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=7s6s&p2=6h5h)
- [76s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/76s.md)
- [65s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/65s.md)
- [76s vs 54s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/76s-vs-54s.md)
- [76s vs 64s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/76s-vs-64s.md)
- [75s vs 65s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/75s-vs-65s.md)
- [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md)

## How this was computed

Nothing here is simulated. The 12 deals of 76s against 65s fall into a few suit patterns, each dealt against all 1,712,304 boards, with both best five-card hands compared on every board. Ties give each hand half a win, and the flop rows count a board under each of its ten flops.

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

## Related

- [76s vs 54s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/76s-vs-54s.md)
- [76s vs 64s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/76s-vs-64s.md)
- [75s vs 65s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/75s-vs-65s.md)