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title: "A9s vs 76s: preflop equity"
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summary: "A9s is a big favorite over 76s before the flop: 61.22% to 38.78% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit."
related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a9s-vs-75s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a9s-vs-65s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ato-vs-76s.md"]
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# A9s vs 76s: preflop equity

A9s is a big favorite over 76s before the flop: 61.22% to 38.78% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit.

In equity, A9s against 76s stands at 61.22% to 38.78%, a gap of 22.44 points.

## A9s against 76s: the numbers

**Exact preflop results for A9s against 76s, in percent**

| Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| A9s | 60.992 | 0.465 | 38.543 | 61.224 |
| 76s | 38.543 | 0.465 | 60.992 | 38.776 |

Two suited hands meet here: A9s against 76s. With no overlap in ranks, every card that pairs one hand is a card that does not pair the other.

A 22.44 point lead is real, and 76s still takes about 385 of every 1,000 deals outright. Ties are part of the picture: 0.47% of boards end in a split pot, and each side counts that as half a win.

A9s ranks number 18 of 169 starting hands, and 76s ranks number 115, by equity against a random hand.

**Boards behind the percentages: 27,396,864 counted in all**

| Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| A9s | 16,710,000 | 127,000 | 10,560,000 |
| 76s | 10,560,000 | 127,000 | 16,710,000 |

The total is exact: 16 specific deals times 1,712,304 boards. The three counts are approximate, worked out from the percentages to five decimals and rounded to the nearest thousand.

**A9s 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) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| A9s | 1.579 | 1.640 | 2.595 | 0.633 |
| 76s | 0.633 | 2.595 | 1.640 | 1.579 |

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

The flop changes the picture. A9s does best on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better, at 65.08%, and worst on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower), at 43.58%. Low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) favor 76s, the hand that is behind overall.

**A9s against 76s by flop texture, in percent**

| Flop | Share of flops | A9s wins | Ties | 76s wins | A9s equity |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Rainbow, ten or higher | 25.220 | 64.980 | 0.189 | 34.831 | 65.075 |
| Rainbow, nine or lower | 5.689 | 43.363 | 0.437 | 56.200 | 43.582 |
| Two-tone | 46.727 | 60.267 | 0.216 | 39.517 | 60.375 |
| Monotone | 5.273 | 56.868 | 3.401 | 39.731 | 58.569 |
| Paired | 17.091 | 64.226 | 0.657 | 35.117 | 64.555 |

Rainbow flops have three suits, two-tone flops repeat one suit, monotone flops are all one suit, and paired flops repeat a rank.

## Compared with a random hand

Against one random hand instead, A9s holds 62.78% and 76s holds 45.37%. Facing each other changes that by -1.56 points for A9s and -6.59 points for 76s.

**A9s 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 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| A9s, all flops | 61.224 | 62.781 | -1.557 | 0.97520 |
| A9s, rainbow, ten or higher | 65.075 | 62.781 | +2.294 | 1.03654 |
| A9s, rainbow, nine or lower | 43.582 | 62.781 | -19.199 | 0.69419 |
| A9s, two-tone | 60.375 | 62.781 | -2.406 | 0.96168 |
| A9s, monotone | 58.569 | 62.781 | -4.212 | 0.93291 |
| A9s, paired | 64.555 | 62.781 | +1.774 | 1.02826 |
| 76s, all flops | 38.776 | 45.372 | -6.596 | 0.85462 |
| 76s, rainbow, ten or higher | 34.925 | 45.372 | -10.447 | 0.76975 |
| 76s, rainbow, nine or lower | 56.418 | 45.372 | +11.046 | 1.24345 |
| 76s, two-tone | 39.625 | 45.372 | -5.747 | 0.87334 |
| 76s, monotone | 41.431 | 45.372 | -3.941 | 0.91314 |
| 76s, paired | 35.445 | 45.372 | -9.927 | 0.78121 |

## Does a shared suit matter?

Does suit overlap move the numbers? A9s has 63.40% when the hands share a suit and 60.50% when they do not. A9s does better with a shared suit, by 2.90 points.

**A9s against 76s by suit overlap, in percent**

| Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | A9s wins | Ties | 76s wins | A9s equity |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Share a suit | 4 | 25.00 | 63.128 | 0.539 | 36.333 | 63.397 |
| No shared suit | 12 | 75.00 | 60.279 | 0.441 | 39.280 | 60.500 |

## How often this matchup comes up

A9s against 76s 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

Put $100 each into a $200 pot and deal every board once: A9s averages $122.44 back, ahead of its $100 by $22.44, while 76s averages $77.56, short of its $100 by $22.44.

Run 1,000 deals and the tally comes out near 610 for A9s, 385 for 76s and 5 ties.

## The same matchup from the other side

The mirror image, 76s against A9s, is 38.78% to 61.22%, and its address redirects to this page.

## Keep exploring

Open the calculator with As9s 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 As9s against 7h6h in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=As9s&p2=7h6h)
- [A9s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/a9s.md)
- [76s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/76s.md)
- [A9s vs 75s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a9s-vs-75s.md)
- [A9s vs 65s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a9s-vs-65s.md)
- [ATo vs 76s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ato-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 16 ways to deal one A9s 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

- [A9s vs 75s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a9s-vs-75s.md)
- [A9s vs 65s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a9s-vs-65s.md)
- [ATo vs 76s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ato-vs-76s.md)