--- title: "AQo vs 76s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqo-vs-76s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqo-vs-76s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "Who is ahead, AQo or 76s? AQo leads 58.84% to 41.16% before the flop, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqo-vs-75s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqo-vs-65s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajo-vs-76s.md"] --- # AQo vs 76s: preflop equity Who is ahead, AQo or 76s? AQo leads 58.84% to 41.16% before the flop, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. In equity, AQo against 76s stands at 58.84% to 41.16%, a gap of 17.68 points. ## AQo against 76s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for AQo against 76s, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AQo | 58.630 | 0.420 | 40.950 | 58.840 | | 76s | 40.950 | 0.420 | 58.630 | 41.160 | AQo, an offsuit hand, plays 76s, 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. In the ranking of all 169 starting hands, AQo is number 14 and 76s is number 115. **Boards behind the percentages: 82,190,592 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AQo | 48,188,000 | 345,000 | 33,657,000 | | 76s | 33,657,000 | 345,000 | 48,188,000 | 48 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. **AQo 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AQo | 1.430 | 1.706 | 2.442 | 0.700 | | 76s | 0.700 | 2.442 | 1.706 | 1.430 | 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 Break the boards down by their first three cards and AQo is strongest on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better (67.07%) and weakest on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) (31.67%). Watch for low rainbow flops (nine high or lower): on those flops 76s holds the better equity. **AQo against 76s by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | AQo wins | Ties | 76s wins | AQo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 24.717 | 66.998 | 0.144 | 32.858 | 67.070 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 6.313 | 31.347 | 0.649 | 68.004 | 31.671 | | Two-tone | 46.667 | 57.048 | 0.236 | 42.716 | 57.166 | | Monotone | 5.212 | 56.187 | 2.366 | 41.447 | 57.370 | | Paired | 17.091 | 61.671 | 0.645 | 37.684 | 61.993 | 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 Start from the random-hand figures, 64.43% for AQo and 45.37% for 76s. This opponent changes them by -5.59 and -4.21 points. **AQo 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | AQo, all flops | 58.840 | 64.432 | -5.592 | 0.91321 | | AQo, rainbow, ten or higher | 67.070 | 64.432 | +2.638 | 1.04094 | | AQo, rainbow, nine or lower | 31.671 | 64.432 | -32.761 | 0.49154 | | AQo, two-tone | 57.166 | 64.432 | -7.266 | 0.88723 | | AQo, monotone | 57.370 | 64.432 | -7.062 | 0.89040 | | AQo, paired | 61.993 | 64.432 | -2.439 | 0.96215 | | 76s, all flops | 41.160 | 45.372 | -4.212 | 0.90717 | | 76s, rainbow, ten or higher | 32.930 | 45.372 | -12.442 | 0.72578 | | 76s, rainbow, nine or lower | 68.329 | 45.372 | +22.957 | 1.50597 | | 76s, two-tone | 42.834 | 45.372 | -2.538 | 0.94406 | | 76s, monotone | 42.630 | 45.372 | -2.742 | 0.93957 | | 76s, paired | 38.007 | 45.372 | -7.365 | 0.83768 | ## Does a shared suit matter? The suit split reads 59.53% for AQo with a shared suit and 58.15% without one. AQo does better with a shared suit, by 1.38 points. **AQo against 76s by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | AQo wins | Ties | 76s wins | AQo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 24 | 50.00 | 59.298 | 0.461 | 40.241 | 59.529 | | No shared suit | 24 | 50.00 | 57.961 | 0.380 | 41.659 | 58.151 | ## 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 Take a $200 pot built from $100 each. AQo's equity of 58.84% is worth $117.68, a $17.68 edge, and 76s' 41.16% is worth $82.32, which is $17.68 under its stake. Think in thousands: about 586 of 1,000 go to AQo, about 410 go to 76s, and about 4 are chopped. ## The same matchup from the other side If you came looking for 76s against AQo, the numbers are the same with the hands swapped: 41.16% and 58.84%. ## Keep exploring AsQh against 7d6d 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 AsQh against 7d6d in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=AsQh&p2=7d6d) - [AQo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/aqo.md) - [76s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/76s.md) - [AQo vs 75s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqo-vs-75s.md) - [AQo vs 65s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqo-vs-65s.md) - [AJo vs 76s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajo-vs-76s.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed We counted every case. Each suit pattern of the 48 specific AQo against 76s deals meets all 1,712,304 boards, and the better five-card hand wins; a split pot is half a win each. The flop table reads each board under all ten of its three-card flops. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [AQo vs 75s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqo-vs-75s.md) - [AQo vs 65s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/aqo-vs-65s.md) - [AJo vs 76s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/ajo-vs-76s.md)