A2s vs 76s: preflop equity

Counting every board, the equity split is 53.86% for A2s and 46.14% for 76s, so A2s leads by 7.72 points.

A2s

53.86%

Wins 53.60%, ties 0.53%

76s

46.14%

Wins 45.87%, ties 0.53%

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

A2s against 76s: the numbers

Exact preflop results for A2s against 76s, in percent
HandWinsTiesLosesEquity
A2s53.5950.53145.87453.861
76s45.8740.53153.59546.139

Both hands are suited hands: A2s and 76s. With no overlap in ranks, every card that pairs one hand is a card that does not pair the other.

With only 7.72 points between them, the board decides this matchup far more than the cards in hand. About 0.53% of boards chop the pot, which is why equity sits slightly above the win figure for both hands.

Place 46 of 169 belongs to A2s and place 115 belongs to 76s in the ranking against a random hand.

Boards behind the percentages: 27,396,864 counted in all
HandBoards won, aboutBoards tied, aboutBoards lost, about
A2s14,683,000145,00012,568,000
76s12,568,000145,00014,683,000

Exact total: 16 deals times 1,712,304 boards. The other three counts come from the five-decimal percentages and are rounded to the nearest thousand, so read them as approximate.

A2s against 76s read as odds
HandEquity as odds (to 1)Wins one deal inLoses one deal inPot odds needed to call (to 1)
A2s1.1671.8662.1800.857
76s0.8572.1801.8661.167

The final column gives the least the pot must offer for each unit called for a call to break even at this equity.

Who is ahead on which flops

By flop texture, A2s' equity runs from 29.08% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) up to 60.66% on paired flops. Watch for low rainbow flops (nine high or lower): on those flops 76s holds the better equity.

A2s against 76s by flop texture, in percent
FlopShare of flopsA2s winsTies76s winsA2s equity
Rainbow, ten or higher25.22057.6390.22842.13357.753
Rainbow, nine or lower5.68928.7190.71370.56829.075
Two-tone46.72752.3490.28647.36552.492
Monotone5.27350.3623.44946.18952.086
Paired17.09160.3160.68638.99860.659

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

Compared with a random opponent, this matchup shifts A2s from 57.38% by -3.52 points and 76s from 45.37% by +0.77 points.

A2s and 76s here compared with each against a random hand, in percent
CaseEquity hereAgainst a random handChange in pointsTimes the random-hand equity
A2s, all flops53.86157.379-3.5180.93869
A2s, rainbow, ten or higher57.75357.379+0.3741.00652
A2s, rainbow, nine or lower29.07557.379-28.3040.50672
A2s, two-tone52.49257.379-4.8870.91483
A2s, monotone52.08657.379-5.2930.90775
A2s, paired60.65957.379+3.2801.05716
76s, all flops46.13945.372+0.7671.01690
76s, rainbow, ten or higher42.24745.372-3.1250.93112
76s, rainbow, nine or lower70.92545.372+25.5531.56319
76s, two-tone47.50845.372+2.1361.04708
76s, monotone47.91445.372+2.5421.05603
76s, paired39.34145.372-6.0310.86708

Does a shared suit matter?

Split by suits, the deals give A2s 55.34% when the hands overlap in a suit and 53.37% when they do not. A2s does better with a shared suit, by 1.97 points.

A2s against 76s by suit overlap, in percent
DealsSpecific dealsShare of dealsA2s winsTies76s winsA2s equity
Share a suit425.0055.0380.61344.34955.344
No shared suit1275.0053.1150.50346.38253.366

How often this matchup comes up

Exactly 16 specific deals fit this matchup in one seat order, which is 0.0010% of 1,624,350; both orders together give 32, or 0.0020%.

A worked example

With $100 from each side, the $200 pot is split on average as $107.72 for A2s and $92.28 for 76s; the first side gains $7.72 per all-in and the second gives up $7.72.

A thousand deals look like this: A2s takes 536, 76s takes 459, 5 are ties.

The same matchup from the other side

Read it from the other side: 76s against A2s is the same matchup with the numbers swapped, so 76s holds 46.14% and A2s holds 53.86%. That address sends you back to this page.

As2s against 7h6h 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

We counted every case. Each suit pattern of the 16 specific A2s against 76s deals meets all 1,712,304 boards, and the better five-card hand wins; a split pot is half a win each. The flop table reads each board under all ten of its three-card flops.

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

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