--- title: "AJs vs 86s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajs-vs-86s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajs-vs-86s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "AJs is a big favorite over 86s before the flop: 62.53% to 37.47% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajs-vs-76s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajs-vs-75s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ako-vs-86s.md"] --- # AJs vs 86s: preflop equity AJs is a big favorite over 86s before the flop: 62.53% to 37.47% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. The exact count puts AJs at 62.53% and 86s at 37.47% when the two hands see all five board cards. ## AJs against 86s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for AJs against 86s, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AJs | 62.297 | 0.467 | 37.236 | 62.530 | | 86s | 37.236 | 0.467 | 62.297 | 37.470 | Two suited hands meet here: AJs against 86s. With no overlap in ranks, every card that pairs one hand is a card that does not pair the other. A 25.06 point lead is real, and 86s still takes about 372 of every 1,000 deals outright. Split pots make up 0.47% of the boards, and both equity figures count them as half a win each. Place 11 of 169 belongs to AJs and place 110 belongs to 86s 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AJs | 17,067,000 | 128,000 | 10,201,000 | | 86s | 10,201,000 | 128,000 | 17,067,000 | 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. **AJs 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AJs | 1.669 | 1.605 | 2.686 | 0.599 | | 86s | 0.599 | 2.686 | 1.605 | 1.669 | 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 If you know the kind of flop that came, the numbers shift: AJs holds 69.35% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better and 36.76% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower). Watch for low rainbow flops (nine high or lower): on those flops 86s holds the better equity. **AJs against 86s by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | AJs wins | Ties | 86s wins | AJs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 24.595 | 69.279 | 0.140 | 30.581 | 69.349 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 6.314 | 36.446 | 0.633 | 62.921 | 36.762 | | Two-tone | 46.727 | 61.726 | 0.221 | 38.053 | 61.837 | | Monotone | 5.273 | 58.119 | 3.396 | 38.485 | 59.817 | | Paired | 17.091 | 64.646 | 0.645 | 34.709 | 64.969 | 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 Each hand has a baseline against a random hand: 65.39% for AJs, 46.24% for 86s. Here the change is -2.86 and -8.77 points. **AJs 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AJs, all flops | 62.530 | 65.393 | -2.863 | 0.95622 | | AJs, rainbow, ten or higher | 69.349 | 65.393 | +3.956 | 1.06050 | | AJs, rainbow, nine or lower | 36.762 | 65.393 | -28.631 | 0.56217 | | AJs, two-tone | 61.837 | 65.393 | -3.556 | 0.94562 | | AJs, monotone | 59.817 | 65.393 | -5.576 | 0.91473 | | AJs, paired | 64.969 | 65.393 | -0.424 | 0.99352 | | 86s, all flops | 37.470 | 46.243 | -8.773 | 0.81028 | | 86s, rainbow, ten or higher | 30.651 | 46.243 | -15.592 | 0.66282 | | 86s, rainbow, nine or lower | 63.238 | 46.243 | +16.995 | 1.36752 | | 86s, two-tone | 38.163 | 46.243 | -8.080 | 0.82527 | | 86s, monotone | 40.183 | 46.243 | -6.060 | 0.86895 | | 86s, paired | 35.031 | 46.243 | -11.212 | 0.75754 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Of the deals of this matchup, 4 share a suit (AJs at 64.79%) and 12 do not (61.78%). AJs does better with a shared suit, by 3.01 points. **AJs against 86s by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | AJs wins | Ties | 86s wins | AJs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 4 | 25.00 | 64.522 | 0.543 | 34.935 | 64.793 | | No shared suit | 12 | 75.00 | 61.555 | 0.442 | 38.003 | 61.776 | ## How often this matchup comes up AJs against 86s 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 A $100 all-in from each player makes a $200 pot, and the exact equity says AJs gets $125.06 of it on average and 86s gets $74.94. Out of 1,000 deals you should see around 623 outright wins for AJs, 372 for 86s, and 5 split pots. ## The same matchup from the other side If you came looking for 86s against AJs, the numbers are the same with the hands swapped: 37.47% and 62.53%. ## Keep exploring AsJs against 8h6h 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 AsJs against 8h6h in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=AsJs&p2=8h6h) - [AJs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/ajs.md) - [86s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/86s.md) - [AJs vs 76s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajs-vs-76s.md) - [AJs vs 75s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajs-vs-75s.md) - [AKo vs 86s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ako-vs-86s.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed Method: exact enumeration. The 16 specific deals are grouped by suit pattern, each is run against all 1,712,304 boards, and both seven-card hands are scored. Equity adds half of every tie, and flop textures are tallied over the ten flops inside each board. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [AJs vs 76s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajs-vs-76s.md) - [AJs vs 75s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajs-vs-75s.md) - [AKo vs 86s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ako-vs-86s.md)