--- title: "77 vs KQs: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/77-vs-kqs.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/77-vs-kqs" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "77 vs KQs is close to a coin flip before the flop: 51.13% to 48.87% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/77-vs-66.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/77-vs-a9s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-kqs.md"] --- # 77 vs KQs: preflop equity 77 vs KQs is close to a coin flip before the flop: 51.13% to 48.87% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Dealt all in against each other, 77 takes 51.13% of the pot on average and KQs takes the other 48.87%. ## 77 against KQs: the numbers **Exact preflop results for 77 against KQs, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 77 | 50.906 | 0.444 | 48.650 | 51.128 | | KQs | 48.650 | 0.444 | 50.906 | 48.872 | 77 and KQs are a pocket pair and a suited hand, in that order. This is a pair against two overcards, a matchup that stays close because the other hand only needs one of its ranks to appear. That is a slim edge: neither hand is far ahead. The tie share is 0.44%: on those boards the pot is chopped and neither hand wins outright. Place 9 of 169 belongs to 77 and place 16 belongs to KQs in the ranking against a random hand. **Boards behind the percentages: 41,095,296 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 77 | 20,920,000 | 182,000 | 19,993,000 | | KQs | 19,993,000 | 182,000 | 20,920,000 | The board total is exact, 24 deals at 1,712,304 boards each. Won, tied and lost counts are rounded to the nearest thousand from the five-decimal percentages. **77 against KQs read as odds** | Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 77 | 1.046 | 1.964 | 2.055 | 0.956 | | KQs | 0.956 | 2.055 | 1.964 | 1.046 | 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 Split by what the flop looks like, 77 peaks at 78.42% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) and bottoms out at 44.43% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better. 77 is the favorite overall but falls behind on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better and two-tone flops. **77 against KQs by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | 77 wins | Ties | KQs wins | 77 equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 24.595 | 44.329 | 0.201 | 55.470 | 44.430 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 6.314 | 78.069 | 0.711 | 21.220 | 78.424 | | Two-tone | 46.545 | 49.091 | 0.284 | 50.625 | 49.233 | | Monotone | 5.212 | 49.445 | 2.414 | 48.141 | 50.652 | | Paired | 17.334 | 55.659 | 0.531 | 43.810 | 55.925 | 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 How much does the opponent matter? Compared with its random-hand 66.24%, 77 changes by -15.11 points, and KQs, from 63.40%, by -14.53. **77 and KQs 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 77, all flops | 51.128 | 66.236 | -15.108 | 0.77191 | | 77, rainbow, ten or higher | 44.430 | 66.236 | -21.806 | 0.67078 | | 77, rainbow, nine or lower | 78.424 | 66.236 | +12.188 | 1.18401 | | 77, two-tone | 49.233 | 66.236 | -17.003 | 0.74330 | | 77, monotone | 50.652 | 66.236 | -15.584 | 0.76472 | | 77, paired | 55.925 | 66.236 | -10.311 | 0.84433 | | KQs, all flops | 48.872 | 63.400 | -14.528 | 0.77085 | | KQs, rainbow, ten or higher | 55.570 | 63.400 | -7.830 | 0.87650 | | KQs, rainbow, nine or lower | 21.576 | 63.400 | -41.824 | 0.34032 | | KQs, two-tone | 50.767 | 63.400 | -12.633 | 0.80074 | | KQs, monotone | 49.348 | 63.400 | -14.052 | 0.77836 | | KQs, paired | 44.075 | 63.400 | -19.325 | 0.69519 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Looking only at deals where the hands share a suit, 77 has 51.30%; looking only at deals where they do not, 50.96%. 77 does better with a shared suit, by 0.34 points. **77 against KQs by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | 77 wins | Ties | KQs wins | 77 equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 12 | 50.00 | 51.056 | 0.489 | 48.455 | 51.301 | | No shared suit | 12 | 50.00 | 50.756 | 0.400 | 48.844 | 50.956 | ## How often this matchup comes up Counting specific cards, 77 against KQs appears in 24 of the 1,624,350 ordered heads-up deals (0.0015%), and in 48 when the seats are swapped too (0.0030%). ## A worked example With $100 from each side, the $200 pot is split on average as $102.26 for 77 and $97.74 for KQs; the first side gains $2.26 per all-in and the second gives up $2.26. Over a long run, 1,000 deals split into about 509 for 77, 487 for KQs and 4 tied. ## The same matchup from the other side If you came looking for KQs against 77, the numbers are the same with the hands swapped: 48.87% and 51.13%. ## Keep exploring Try 7s7h against KdQd 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 7s7h against KdQd in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=7s7h&p2=KdQd) - [77 combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/77.md) - [KQs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/kqs.md) - [77 vs 66](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/77-vs-66.md) - [77 vs A9s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/77-vs-a9s.md) - [AQs vs KQs](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-kqs.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed This is an exact count with no sampling. For the 24 ways to deal one 77 and one KQs without reusing a card, grouped by suit pattern, every one of the 1,712,304 possible boards is dealt and both seven-card hands are compared. A tie counts as half a win in the equity column, and each board is counted once under each of its ten three-card flops. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [77 vs 66: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/77-vs-66.md) - [77 vs A9s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/77-vs-a9s.md) - [AQs vs KQs: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqs-vs-kqs.md)