--- title: "AJo vs 86s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajo-vs-86s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajo-vs-86s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "Who is ahead, AJo or 86s? AJo leads 59.98% to 40.02% before the flop, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajo-vs-76s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajo-vs-75s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqs-vs-86s.md"] --- # AJo vs 86s: preflop equity Who is ahead, AJo or 86s? AJo leads 59.98% to 40.02% before the flop, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Dealt all in against each other, AJo takes 59.98% of the pot on average and 86s takes the other 40.02%. ## AJo against 86s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for AJo against 86s, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AJo | 59.768 | 0.420 | 39.812 | 59.978 | | 86s | 39.812 | 0.420 | 59.768 | 40.022 | One side is an offsuit hand, the other is a suited hand. With no overlap in ranks, every card that pairs one hand is a card that does not pair the other. The lead is steady rather than large, and the flop still has plenty of say in who wins. Ties are 0.42% of the outcomes here; each tied board gives both hands half the pot. For context, AJo sits at number 15 of 169 starting hands and 86s at number 110 when each is run against a random hand. **Boards behind the percentages: 82,190,592 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AJo | 49,124,000 | 345,000 | 32,722,000 | | 86s | 32,722,000 | 345,000 | 49,124,000 | The total is exact: 48 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. **AJo against 86s read as odds** | Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AJo | 1.499 | 1.673 | 2.512 | 0.667 | | 86s | 0.667 | 2.512 | 1.673 | 1.499 | 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 AJo (68.03%); low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) are the worst (34.24%). 86s is ahead on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower), even though it trails AJo when every flop is counted. **AJo against 86s by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | AJo wins | Ties | 86s wins | AJo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 24.717 | 67.961 | 0.144 | 31.895 | 68.033 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 6.313 | 33.912 | 0.662 | 65.426 | 34.243 | | Two-tone | 46.667 | 58.247 | 0.236 | 41.517 | 58.365 | | Monotone | 5.212 | 57.097 | 2.356 | 40.547 | 58.275 | | Paired | 17.091 | 62.439 | 0.645 | 36.916 | 62.761 | Flop types: rainbow means three different suits, two-tone means one suit twice, monotone means one suit three times, paired means a repeated rank. ## Compared with a random hand Against one random hand instead, AJo holds 63.56% and 86s holds 46.24%. Facing each other changes that by -3.58 points for AJo and -6.22 points for 86s. **AJo and 86s 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AJo, all flops | 59.978 | 63.563 | -3.585 | 0.94360 | | AJo, rainbow, ten or higher | 68.033 | 63.563 | +4.470 | 1.07032 | | AJo, rainbow, nine or lower | 34.243 | 63.563 | -29.320 | 0.53873 | | AJo, two-tone | 58.365 | 63.563 | -5.198 | 0.91822 | | AJo, monotone | 58.275 | 63.563 | -5.288 | 0.91681 | | AJo, paired | 62.761 | 63.563 | -0.802 | 0.98738 | | 86s, all flops | 40.022 | 46.243 | -6.221 | 0.86547 | | 86s, rainbow, ten or higher | 31.967 | 46.243 | -14.276 | 0.69128 | | 86s, rainbow, nine or lower | 65.757 | 46.243 | +19.514 | 1.42199 | | 86s, two-tone | 41.635 | 46.243 | -4.608 | 0.90035 | | 86s, monotone | 41.725 | 46.243 | -4.518 | 0.90230 | | 86s, paired | 37.239 | 46.243 | -9.004 | 0.80529 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Suit overlap shows up in the numbers. With a suit in common AJo has 60.68% equity, and with none in common it has 59.27%. AJo does better with a shared suit, by 1.41 points. **AJo against 86s by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | AJo wins | Ties | 86s wins | AJo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 24 | 50.00 | 60.454 | 0.461 | 39.085 | 60.684 | | No shared suit | 24 | 50.00 | 59.082 | 0.380 | 40.538 | 59.272 | ## How often this matchup comes up Counting specific cards, AJo against 86s appears in 48 of the 1,624,350 ordered heads-up deals (0.0030%), and in 96 when the seats are swapped too (0.0059%). ## A worked example With $100 from each side, the $200 pot is split on average as $119.96 for AJo and $80.04 for 86s; the first side gains $19.96 per all-in and the second gives up $19.96. Scaled to 1,000 deals, that is roughly 598 wins for AJo, 398 for 86s and 4 chopped pots. ## The same matchup from the other side The mirror image, 86s against AJo, is 40.02% to 59.98%, and its address redirects to this page. ## Keep exploring AsJh against 8d6d 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 AsJh against 8d6d in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=AsJh&p2=8d6d) - [AJo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/ajo.md) - [86s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/86s.md) - [AJo vs 76s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajo-vs-76s.md) - [AJo vs 75s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajo-vs-75s.md) - [KQs vs 86s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqs-vs-86s.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed This is an exact count with no sampling. For the 48 ways to deal one AJo and one 86s 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 - [AJo vs 76s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajo-vs-76s.md) - [AJo vs 75s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajo-vs-75s.md) - [KQs vs 86s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqs-vs-86s.md)