--- title: "A6s vs 87s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a6s-vs-87s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a6s-vs-87s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "Who is ahead, A6s or 87s? A6s leads 55.78% to 44.22% before the flop, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a6s-vs-86s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a6s-vs-76s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kto-vs-87s.md"] --- # A6s vs 87s: preflop equity Who is ahead, A6s or 87s? A6s leads 55.78% to 44.22% before the flop, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Dealt all in against each other, A6s takes 55.78% of the pot on average and 87s takes the other 44.22%. ## A6s against 87s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for A6s against 87s, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | A6s | 55.555 | 0.458 | 43.987 | 55.784 | | 87s | 43.987 | 0.458 | 55.555 | 44.216 | A6s meets 87s, and both are suited hands. Neither hand shares a rank with the other, so this is a contest of high cards, connection and suits. That is a modest edge, the kind that shows up over many hands and is easy to miss in one. Ties are 0.46% of the outcomes here; each tied board gives both hands half the pot. In the ranking of all 169 starting hands, A6s is number 31 and 87s is number 100. **Boards behind the percentages: 27,396,864 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | A6s | 15,220,000 | 125,000 | 12,051,000 | | 87s | 12,051,000 | 125,000 | 15,220,000 | 16 specific deals times 1,712,304 boards gives the exact total. The won, tied and lost counts are approximations from the five-decimal percentages, rounded to the nearest thousand. **A6s against 87s read as odds** | Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | A6s | 1.262 | 1.800 | 2.273 | 0.793 | | 87s | 0.793 | 2.273 | 1.800 | 1.262 | 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, A6s' equity runs from 37.37% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) up to 61.64% on paired flops. A6s is the favorite overall but falls behind on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower). **A6s against 87s by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | A6s wins | Ties | 87s wins | A6s equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 25.220 | 58.699 | 0.188 | 41.113 | 58.793 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 5.689 | 37.174 | 0.388 | 62.438 | 37.368 | | Two-tone | 46.727 | 54.419 | 0.208 | 45.373 | 54.523 | | Monotone | 5.273 | 51.768 | 3.388 | 44.844 | 53.462 | | Paired | 17.091 | 61.308 | 0.661 | 38.031 | 61.638 | 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, A6s holds 59.91% and 87s holds 47.94%. Facing each other changes that by -4.13 points for A6s and -3.72 points for 87s. **A6s and 87s 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | A6s, all flops | 55.784 | 59.906 | -4.122 | 0.93119 | | A6s, rainbow, ten or higher | 58.793 | 59.906 | -1.113 | 0.98142 | | A6s, rainbow, nine or lower | 37.368 | 59.906 | -22.538 | 0.62378 | | A6s, two-tone | 54.523 | 59.906 | -5.383 | 0.91014 | | A6s, monotone | 53.462 | 59.906 | -6.444 | 0.89243 | | A6s, paired | 61.638 | 59.906 | +1.732 | 1.02891 | | 87s, all flops | 44.216 | 47.936 | -3.720 | 0.92240 | | 87s, rainbow, ten or higher | 41.207 | 47.936 | -6.729 | 0.85963 | | 87s, rainbow, nine or lower | 62.632 | 47.936 | +14.696 | 1.30658 | | 87s, two-tone | 45.477 | 47.936 | -2.459 | 0.94870 | | 87s, monotone | 46.538 | 47.936 | -1.398 | 0.97084 | | 87s, paired | 38.362 | 47.936 | -9.574 | 0.80028 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Looking only at deals where the hands share a suit, A6s has 57.55%; looking only at deals where they do not, 55.19%. A6s does better with a shared suit, by 2.36 points. **A6s against 87s by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | A6s wins | Ties | 87s wins | A6s equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 4 | 25.00 | 57.287 | 0.531 | 42.182 | 57.552 | | No shared suit | 12 | 75.00 | 54.977 | 0.434 | 44.589 | 55.194 | ## How often this matchup comes up A6s against 87s is made up of 16 specific-card matchups in one seat order, 0.0010% of the 1,624,350 ordered deals, and 32 counting both seat orders, 0.0020%. ## A worked example Say each player puts $100 in before the flop, making a $200 pot. On average A6s takes back $111.56 of it, which is $11.56 more than it put in, and 87s takes back $88.44, $11.56 less than it put in. Scaled to 1,000 deals, that is roughly 555 wins for A6s, 440 for 87s and 5 chopped pots. ## The same matchup from the other side One page covers both views. From 87s' side the equity is 44.22%, and from A6s' side it is 55.78%. ## Keep exploring As6s against 8h7h 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. - [Open As6s against 8h7h in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=As6s&p2=8h7h) - [A6s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/a6s.md) - [87s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/87s.md) - [A6s vs 86s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a6s-vs-86s.md) - [A6s vs 76s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a6s-vs-76s.md) - [KTo vs 87s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kto-vs-87s.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed We counted every case. Each suit pattern of the 16 specific A6s against 87s 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. ## Related - [A6s vs 86s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a6s-vs-86s.md) - [A6s vs 76s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a6s-vs-76s.md) - [KTo vs 87s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kto-vs-87s.md)