--- title: "88 vs 76s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/88-vs-76s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/88-vs-76s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "88 is a big favorite over 76s before the flop: 81.50% to 18.50% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/88-vs-75s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/88-vs-65s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aks-vs-76s.md"] --- # 88 vs 76s: preflop equity 88 is a big favorite over 76s before the flop: 81.50% to 18.50% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. If 88 and 76s get all the chips in before the flop, 88 owns 81.50% of the pot in the long run and 76s owns 18.50%. ## 88 against 76s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for 88 against 76s, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 88 | 81.058 | 0.877 | 18.065 | 81.496 | | 76s | 18.065 | 0.877 | 81.058 | 18.504 | 88, a pocket pair, plays 76s, a suited hand. A pair against two lower cards is a lopsided matchup: the pair is ahead and the other hand has no overcard to catch. 88 is a big favorite here before anyone sees a flop. Ties are part of the picture: 0.88% of boards end in a split pot, and each side counts that as half a win. 88 ranks number 7 of 169 starting hands, and 76s ranks number 115, by equity against a random hand. **Boards behind the percentages: 41,095,296 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 88 | 33,311,000 | 360,000 | 7,424,000 | | 76s | 7,424,000 | 360,000 | 33,311,000 | 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. **88 against 76s read as odds** | Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 88 | 4.404 | 1.234 | 5.536 | 0.227 | | 76s | 0.227 | 5.536 | 1.234 | 4.404 | 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, 88's equity runs from 72.28% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) up to 85.68% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better. 88 stays ahead on all five textures. **88 against 76s by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | 88 wins | Ties | 76s wins | 88 equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 25.844 | 85.414 | 0.534 | 14.052 | 85.681 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 5.065 | 72.132 | 0.301 | 27.567 | 72.282 | | Two-tone | 46.545 | 79.551 | 0.468 | 19.981 | 79.785 | | Monotone | 5.212 | 74.216 | 2.550 | 23.234 | 75.491 | | Paired | 17.334 | 83.274 | 2.154 | 14.572 | 84.351 | A rainbow flop shows three suits, a two-tone flop repeats one suit, a monotone flop is a single suit, and a paired flop repeats a rank. ## Compared with a random hand A random hand would give 88 69.16% and 76s 45.37%. Against each other the change is +12.34 points for 88 and -26.87 for 76s. **88 and 76s 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 88, all flops | 81.496 | 69.163 | +12.333 | 1.17832 | | 88, rainbow, ten or higher | 85.681 | 69.163 | +16.518 | 1.23883 | | 88, rainbow, nine or lower | 72.282 | 69.163 | +3.119 | 1.04510 | | 88, two-tone | 79.785 | 69.163 | +10.622 | 1.15358 | | 88, monotone | 75.491 | 69.163 | +6.328 | 1.09149 | | 88, paired | 84.351 | 69.163 | +15.188 | 1.21960 | | 76s, all flops | 18.504 | 45.372 | -26.868 | 0.40783 | | 76s, rainbow, ten or higher | 14.319 | 45.372 | -31.053 | 0.31559 | | 76s, rainbow, nine or lower | 27.718 | 45.372 | -17.654 | 0.61091 | | 76s, two-tone | 20.215 | 45.372 | -25.157 | 0.44554 | | 76s, monotone | 24.509 | 45.372 | -20.863 | 0.54018 | | 76s, paired | 15.649 | 45.372 | -29.723 | 0.34490 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Looking only at deals where the hands share a suit, 88 has 82.05%; looking only at deals where they do not, 80.94%. 88 does better with a shared suit, by 1.11 points. **88 against 76s by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | 88 wins | Ties | 76s wins | 88 equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 12 | 50.00 | 81.594 | 0.918 | 17.488 | 82.053 | | No shared suit | 12 | 50.00 | 80.522 | 0.836 | 18.642 | 80.940 | ## How often this matchup comes up You will meet this exact matchup 0.0030% of the time in a random heads-up deal: 48 of 1,624,350, counting either seat order. ## A worked example Worked example: both players commit $100, so $200 sits in the middle. Over every board, 88's average share is $163.00 (a gain of $63.00) and 76s' is $37.00 (a loss of $63.00). Scaled to 1,000 deals, that is roughly 810 wins for 88, 181 for 76s and 9 chopped pots. ## The same matchup from the other side The reversed view, 76s against 88, shows 18.50% for 76s and 81.50% for 88. It is the same count, so it redirects here. ## Keep exploring The calculator link fills in 8s8h against 7d6d, 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 8s8h against 7d6d in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=8s8h&p2=7d6d) - [88 combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/88.md) - [76s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/76s.md) - [88 vs 75s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/88-vs-75s.md) - [88 vs 65s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/88-vs-65s.md) - [AKs vs 76s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aks-vs-76s.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 88 and one 76s 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 - [88 vs 75s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/88-vs-75s.md) - [88 vs 65s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/88-vs-65s.md) - [AKs vs 76s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aks-vs-76s.md)