A9o vs 76s: preflop equity

Counting every board, the equity split is 58.67% for A9o and 41.33% for 76s, so A9o leads by 17.34 points.

A9o

58.67%

Wins 58.46%, ties 0.42%

76s

41.33%

Wins 41.12%, ties 0.42%

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

A9o against 76s: the numbers

Exact preflop results for A9o against 76s, in percent
HandWinsTiesLosesEquity
A9o58.4580.41641.12658.666
76s41.1260.41658.45841.334

A9o and 76s are an offsuit hand and a suited hand, in that order. The two hands share no rank, which makes this a pure matchup of card strength, straight chances and flush chances.

A9o is ahead, but 76s is far from dead: it takes 411 of every 1,000 deals outright. 0.42% of boards are ties, so the equity of each hand is its win rate plus half of that.

For context, A9o sits at number 25 of 169 starting hands and 76s at number 115 when each is run against a random hand.

Boards behind the percentages: 82,190,592 counted in all
HandBoards won, aboutBoards tied, aboutBoards lost, about
A9o48,047,000342,00033,802,000
76s33,802,000342,00048,047,000

The board total is exact, 48 deals at 1,712,304 boards each. Won, tied and lost counts are rounded to the nearest thousand from the five-decimal percentages.

A9o against 76s read as odds
HandEquity as odds (to 1)Wins one deal inLoses one deal inPot odds needed to call (to 1)
A9o1.4191.7112.4320.705
76s0.7052.4321.7111.419

In the last column, a pot-to-call ratio at or above the figure makes a call break even or better at this equity.

Who is ahead on which flops

Across the five flop textures A9o's equity moves by 22.14 points, from 41.47% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) to 63.61% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better. Low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) favor 76s, the hand that is behind overall.

A9o against 76s by flop texture, in percent
FlopShare of flopsA9o winsTies76s winsA9o equity
Rainbow, ten or higher25.34163.5110.19236.29763.607
Rainbow, nine or lower5.68941.2450.45558.30041.472
Two-tone46.66756.7790.22742.99456.893
Monotone5.21255.9792.35641.66557.157
Paired17.09162.0370.65737.30662.365

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

Each hand has a baseline against a random hand: 60.77% for A9o, 45.37% for 76s. Here the change is -2.10 and -4.04 points.

A9o and 76s here compared with each against a random hand, in percent
CaseEquity hereAgainst a random handChange in pointsTimes the random-hand equity
A9o, all flops58.66660.773-2.1070.96533
A9o, rainbow, ten or higher63.60760.773+2.8341.04663
A9o, rainbow, nine or lower41.47260.773-19.3010.68241
A9o, two-tone56.89360.773-3.8800.93616
A9o, monotone57.15760.773-3.6160.94050
A9o, paired62.36560.773+1.5921.02620
76s, all flops41.33445.372-4.0380.91100
76s, rainbow, ten or higher36.39345.372-8.9790.80210
76s, rainbow, nine or lower58.52845.372+13.1561.28996
76s, two-tone43.10745.372-2.2650.95008
76s, monotone42.84345.372-2.5290.94426
76s, paired37.63545.372-7.7370.82948

Does a shared suit matter?

Suit overlap shows up in the numbers. With a suit in common A9o has 59.32% equity, and with none in common it has 58.01%. A9o does better with a shared suit, by 1.31 points.

A9o against 76s by suit overlap, in percent
DealsSpecific dealsShare of dealsA9o winsTies76s winsA9o equity
Share a suit2450.0059.0940.45640.45059.322
No shared suit2450.0057.8220.37541.80358.010

How often this matchup comes up

The class pair covers 48 combinations of specific cards in a fixed seat order, 0.0030% of 1,624,350, and 96 (0.0059%) in either order.

A worked example

Try it with money: two players each put in $100 and the whole board runs out every possible way. A9o averages $117.34 from the $200, up $17.34; 76s averages $82.66, down $17.34.

A thousand deals look like this: A9o takes 585, 76s takes 411, 4 are ties.

The same matchup from the other side

If you came looking for 76s against A9o, the numbers are the same with the hands swapped: 41.33% and 58.67%.

Open the calculator with As9h against 7d6d 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.

How this was computed

All 1,712,304 five-card boards are dealt for every suit pattern among the 48 specific deals of A9o against 76s, and both hands are scored on each. That is a full count, so the percentages are exact. Ties are half a win each, and each board appears once per flop it contains.

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

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