--- title: "AKs vs 76s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aks-vs-76s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aks-vs-76s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "AKs is a big favorite over 76s before the flop: 61.06% to 38.94% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aks-vs-75s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aks-vs-65s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/77-vs-76s.md"] --- # AKs vs 76s: preflop equity AKs is a big favorite over 76s before the flop: 61.06% to 38.94% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Counting every board, the equity split is 61.06% for AKs and 38.94% for 76s, so AKs leads by 22.12 points. ## AKs against 76s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for AKs against 76s, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AKs | 60.826 | 0.465 | 38.709 | 61.059 | | 76s | 38.709 | 0.465 | 60.826 | 38.941 | AKs and 76s are both suited hands. The two hands share no rank, which makes this a pure matchup of card strength, straight chances and flush chances. AKs is ahead, but 76s is far from dead: it takes 387 of every 1,000 deals outright. A split pot comes up on 0.47% of boards, so the wins and the equity differ by half of that. Ranked by equity against a random hand, AKs is number 8 of the 169 starting hands and 76s is number 115. **Boards behind the percentages: 27,396,864 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AKs | 16,664,000 | 127,000 | 10,605,000 | | 76s | 10,605,000 | 127,000 | 16,664,000 | The board total is exact, 16 deals at 1,712,304 boards each. Won, tied and lost counts are rounded to the nearest thousand from the five-decimal percentages. **AKs 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AKs | 1.568 | 1.644 | 2.583 | 0.638 | | 76s | 0.638 | 2.583 | 1.644 | 1.568 | 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 By flop texture, AKs' equity runs from 34.07% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) up to 67.84% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better. Low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) favor 76s, the hand that is behind overall. **AKs against 76s by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | AKs wins | Ties | 76s wins | AKs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 24.595 | 67.775 | 0.133 | 32.092 | 67.841 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 6.314 | 33.751 | 0.643 | 65.606 | 34.072 | | Two-tone | 46.727 | 60.182 | 0.220 | 39.598 | 60.292 | | Monotone | 5.273 | 56.963 | 3.407 | 39.630 | 58.666 | | Paired | 17.091 | 63.781 | 0.641 | 35.578 | 64.101 | 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 A random hand would give AKs 67.05% and 76s 45.37%. Against each other the change is -5.99 points for AKs and -6.43 for 76s. **AKs 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AKs, all flops | 61.059 | 67.045 | -5.986 | 0.91072 | | AKs, rainbow, ten or higher | 67.841 | 67.045 | +0.796 | 1.01187 | | AKs, rainbow, nine or lower | 34.072 | 67.045 | -32.973 | 0.50820 | | AKs, two-tone | 60.292 | 67.045 | -6.753 | 0.89928 | | AKs, monotone | 58.666 | 67.045 | -8.379 | 0.87502 | | AKs, paired | 64.101 | 67.045 | -2.944 | 0.95609 | | 76s, all flops | 38.941 | 45.372 | -6.431 | 0.85826 | | 76s, rainbow, ten or higher | 32.159 | 45.372 | -13.213 | 0.70879 | | 76s, rainbow, nine or lower | 65.928 | 45.372 | +20.556 | 1.45305 | | 76s, two-tone | 39.708 | 45.372 | -5.664 | 0.87517 | | 76s, monotone | 41.334 | 45.372 | -4.038 | 0.91100 | | 76s, paired | 35.899 | 45.372 | -9.473 | 0.79121 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Suit overlap shows up in the numbers. With a suit in common AKs has 63.15% equity, and with none in common it has 60.36%. AKs does better with a shared suit, by 2.79 points. **AKs against 76s by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | AKs wins | Ties | 76s wins | AKs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 4 | 25.00 | 62.875 | 0.542 | 36.583 | 63.146 | | No shared suit | 12 | 75.00 | 60.143 | 0.439 | 39.418 | 60.363 | ## How often this matchup comes up Counting specific cards, AKs against 76s appears in 16 of the 1,624,350 ordered heads-up deals (0.0010%), and in 32 when the seats are swapped too (0.0020%). ## A worked example A $100 all-in from each player makes a $200 pot, and the exact equity says AKs gets $122.12 of it on average and 76s gets $77.88. Out of 1,000 deals you should see around 608 outright wins for AKs, 387 for 76s, and 5 split pots. ## The same matchup from the other side Read it from the other side: 76s against AKs is the same matchup with the numbers swapped, so 76s holds 38.94% and AKs holds 61.06%. That address sends you back to this page. ## Keep exploring AsKs against 7h6h 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 AsKs against 7h6h in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=AsKs&p2=7h6h) - [AKs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/aks.md) - [76s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/76s.md) - [AKs vs 75s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aks-vs-75s.md) - [AKs vs 65s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aks-vs-65s.md) - [77 vs 76s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/77-vs-76s.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed Each figure is a complete count over boards. Take the 16 specific deals, group them by suit pattern, deal all 1,712,304 boards against each, and compare the two seven-card hands. Equity counts a tie as half a win; the flop rows use every one of a board's ten flops. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [AKs vs 75s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aks-vs-75s.md) - [AKs vs 65s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aks-vs-65s.md) - [77 vs 76s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/77-vs-76s.md)