--- title: "A8s vs 76s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a8s-vs-76s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a8s-vs-76s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "A8s is a big favorite over 76s before the flop: 61.42% to 38.58% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a8s-vs-75s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a8s-vs-65s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-76s.md"] --- # A8s vs 76s: preflop equity A8s is a big favorite over 76s before the flop: 61.42% to 38.58% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Over all 1,712,304 boards that can follow this deal, A8s finishes with 61.42% of the pot and 76s with 38.58%. ## A8s against 76s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for A8s against 76s, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | A8s | 61.189 | 0.460 | 38.351 | 61.419 | | 76s | 38.351 | 0.460 | 61.189 | 38.581 | A8s meets 76s, and both are suited hands. The two hands share no rank, which makes this a pure matchup of card strength, straight chances and flush chances. That is a modest edge, the kind that shows up over many hands and is easy to miss in one. 0.46% of boards are ties, so the equity of each hand is its win rate plus half of that. Place 21 of 169 belongs to A8s and place 115 belongs to 76s in the ranking against a random hand. **Boards behind the percentages: 27,396,864 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | A8s | 16,764,000 | 126,000 | 10,507,000 | | 76s | 10,507,000 | 126,000 | 16,764,000 | 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. **A8s 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | A8s | 1.592 | 1.634 | 2.607 | 0.628 | | 76s | 0.628 | 2.607 | 1.634 | 1.592 | 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 A8s (65.32%); low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) are the worst (43.70%). Low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) favor 76s, the hand that is behind overall. **A8s against 76s by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | A8s wins | Ties | 76s wins | A8s equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 25.220 | 65.229 | 0.189 | 34.582 | 65.323 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 5.689 | 43.508 | 0.390 | 56.102 | 43.703 | | Two-tone | 46.727 | 60.433 | 0.209 | 39.358 | 60.537 | | Monotone | 5.273 | 56.910 | 3.396 | 39.694 | 58.608 | | Paired | 17.091 | 64.501 | 0.661 | 34.838 | 64.832 | 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 Each hand has a baseline against a random hand: 61.94% for A8s, 45.37% for 76s. Here the change is -0.52 and -6.79 points. **A8s 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | A8s, all flops | 61.419 | 61.944 | -0.525 | 0.99152 | | A8s, rainbow, ten or higher | 65.323 | 61.944 | +3.379 | 1.05455 | | A8s, rainbow, nine or lower | 43.703 | 61.944 | -18.241 | 0.70552 | | A8s, two-tone | 60.537 | 61.944 | -1.407 | 0.97729 | | A8s, monotone | 58.608 | 61.944 | -3.336 | 0.94614 | | A8s, paired | 64.832 | 61.944 | +2.888 | 1.04662 | | 76s, all flops | 38.581 | 45.372 | -6.791 | 0.85033 | | 76s, rainbow, ten or higher | 34.677 | 45.372 | -10.695 | 0.76428 | | 76s, rainbow, nine or lower | 56.297 | 45.372 | +10.925 | 1.24079 | | 76s, two-tone | 39.463 | 45.372 | -5.909 | 0.86977 | | 76s, monotone | 41.392 | 45.372 | -3.980 | 0.91228 | | 76s, paired | 35.168 | 45.372 | -10.204 | 0.77510 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Of the deals of this matchup, 4 share a suit (A8s at 63.65%) and 12 do not (60.68%). A8s does better with a shared suit, by 2.97 points. **A8s against 76s by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | A8s wins | Ties | 76s wins | A8s equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 4 | 25.00 | 63.380 | 0.531 | 36.089 | 63.646 | | No shared suit | 12 | 75.00 | 60.458 | 0.436 | 39.106 | 60.676 | ## How often this matchup comes up The class pair covers 16 combinations of specific cards in a fixed seat order, 0.0010% of 1,624,350, and 32 (0.0020%) in either order. ## A worked example With $100 from each side, the $200 pot is split on average as $122.84 for A8s and $77.16 for 76s; the first side gains $22.84 per all-in and the second gives up $22.84. Over a long run, 1,000 deals split into about 612 for A8s, 383 for 76s and 5 tied. ## The same matchup from the other side 76s against A8s adds nothing new: it is 38.58% for 76s and 61.42% for A8s, the same figures reversed. ## Keep exploring Open the calculator with As8s against 7h6h already entered, a deal with no shared suit, and change any card to try your own hand. The matchups after it each swap one hand for a nearby one in the ranking. - [Open As8s against 7h6h in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=As8s&p2=7h6h) - [A8s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/a8s.md) - [76s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/76s.md) - [A8s vs 75s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a8s-vs-75s.md) - [A8s vs 65s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a8s-vs-65s.md) - [KTs vs 76s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-76s.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed Nothing here is simulated. The 16 deals of A8s against 76s fall into a few suit patterns, each dealt against all 1,712,304 boards, with both best five-card hands compared on every board. Ties give each hand half a win, and the flop rows count a board under each of its ten flops. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [A8s vs 75s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a8s-vs-75s.md) - [A8s vs 65s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a8s-vs-65s.md) - [KTs vs 76s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-76s.md)