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title: "86s vs 75s: preflop equity"
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summary: "86s is a big favorite over 75s before the flop: 61.06% to 38.94% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit."
related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/86s-vs-65s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/86s-vs-54s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/76s-vs-75s.md"]
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# 86s vs 75s: preflop equity

86s is a big favorite over 75s before the flop: 61.06% to 38.94% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit.

In equity, 86s against 75s stands at 61.06% to 38.94%, a gap of 22.12 points.

## 86s against 75s: the numbers

**Exact preflop results for 86s against 75s, in percent**

| Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 86s | 58.769 | 4.590 | 36.641 | 61.064 |
| 75s | 36.641 | 4.590 | 58.769 | 38.936 |

Two suited hands meet here: 86s against 75s. Neither hand shares a rank with the other, so this is a contest of high cards, connection and suits.

The lead is steady rather than large, and the flop still has plenty of say in who wins. About 4.59% of boards chop the pot, which is why equity sits slightly above the win figure for both hands.

Among the 169 starting hands, 86s is number 110 and 75s is number 124 by strength against a random hand.

**Boards behind the percentages: 27,396,864 counted in all**

| Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 86s | 16,101,000 | 1,258,000 | 10,038,000 |
| 75s | 10,038,000 | 1,258,000 | 16,101,000 |

The total is exact: 16 specific deals times 1,712,304 boards. The three counts are approximate, worked out from the percentages to five decimals and rounded to the nearest thousand.

**86s against 75s read as odds**

| Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 86s | 1.568 | 1.702 | 2.729 | 0.638 |
| 75s | 0.638 | 2.729 | 1.702 | 1.568 |

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

Rainbow flops topped by a ten or better are the best for 86s (62.68%); low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) are the worst (57.25%). 86s stays ahead on all five textures.

**86s against 75s by flop texture, in percent**

| Flop | Share of flops | 86s wins | Ties | 75s wins | 86s equity |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Rainbow, ten or higher | 25.844 | 60.682 | 3.989 | 35.329 | 62.677 |
| Rainbow, nine or lower | 5.065 | 57.039 | 0.416 | 42.545 | 57.247 |
| Two-tone | 46.727 | 59.315 | 3.011 | 37.674 | 60.821 |
| Monotone | 5.273 | 56.062 | 5.254 | 38.684 | 58.689 |
| Paired | 17.091 | 55.728 | 10.848 | 33.424 | 61.152 |

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

Against one random hand instead, 86s holds 46.24% and 75s holds 43.68%. Facing each other changes that by +14.82 points for 86s and -4.74 points for 75s.

**86s and 75s 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 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 86s, all flops | 61.064 | 46.243 | +14.821 | 1.32050 |
| 86s, rainbow, ten or higher | 62.677 | 46.243 | +16.434 | 1.35538 |
| 86s, rainbow, nine or lower | 57.247 | 46.243 | +11.004 | 1.23796 |
| 86s, two-tone | 60.821 | 46.243 | +14.578 | 1.31525 |
| 86s, monotone | 58.689 | 46.243 | +12.446 | 1.26914 |
| 86s, paired | 61.152 | 46.243 | +14.909 | 1.32241 |
| 75s, all flops | 38.936 | 43.676 | -4.740 | 0.89147 |
| 75s, rainbow, ten or higher | 37.323 | 43.676 | -6.353 | 0.85454 |
| 75s, rainbow, nine or lower | 42.753 | 43.676 | -0.923 | 0.97887 |
| 75s, two-tone | 39.179 | 43.676 | -4.497 | 0.89704 |
| 75s, monotone | 41.311 | 43.676 | -2.365 | 0.94585 |
| 75s, paired | 38.848 | 43.676 | -4.828 | 0.88946 |

## Does a shared suit matter?

Of the deals of this matchup, 4 share a suit (86s at 63.39%) and 12 do not (60.29%). 86s does better with a shared suit, by 3.10 points.

**86s against 75s by suit overlap, in percent**

| Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | 86s wins | Ties | 75s wins | 86s equity |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Share a suit | 4 | 25.00 | 60.922 | 4.933 | 34.145 | 63.388 |
| No shared suit | 12 | 75.00 | 58.051 | 4.476 | 37.473 | 60.289 |

## How often this matchup comes up

This page stands for 16 specific-card matchups (0.0010% of 1,624,350 ordered deals), or 32 once you count the seats both ways (0.0020%).

## A worked example

To see what the equity is worth, imagine $100 each in a $200 pot. 86s is worth $122.12 on average (+$22.12); 75s is worth $77.88 (-$22.12).

Scaled to 1,000 deals, that is roughly 588 wins for 86s, 366 for 75s and 46 chopped pots.

## The same matchup from the other side

If you came looking for 75s against 86s, the numbers are the same with the hands swapped: 38.94% and 61.06%.

## Keep exploring

The calculator link fills in 8s6s against 7h5h, a deal where the two hands share no suit. Change any card to test your own hand. The neighboring matchups below swap one of the two hands for one of similar strength.

- [Open 8s6s against 7h5h in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=8s6s&p2=7h5h)
- [86s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/86s.md)
- [75s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/75s.md)
- [86s vs 65s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/86s-vs-65s.md)
- [86s vs 54s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/86s-vs-54s.md)
- [76s vs 75s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/76s-vs-75s.md)
- [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md)

## How this was computed

Method: exact enumeration. The 16 specific deals are grouped by suit pattern, each is run against all 1,712,304 boards, and both seven-card hands are scored. Equity adds half of every tie, and flop textures are tallied over the ten flops inside each board.

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

## Related

- [86s vs 65s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/86s-vs-65s.md)
- [86s vs 54s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/86s-vs-54s.md)
- [76s vs 75s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/76s-vs-75s.md)