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title: "J9s vs 76s: preflop equity"
url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/j9s-vs-76s.md"
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last_updated: "2026-10-23"
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summary: "J9s is a big favorite over 76s before the flop: 63.04% to 36.96% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit."
related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/j9s-vs-75s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/j9s-vs-65s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jto-vs-76s.md"]
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# J9s vs 76s: preflop equity

J9s is a big favorite over 76s before the flop: 63.04% to 36.96% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit.

Counting every board, the equity split is 63.04% for J9s and 36.96% for 76s, so J9s leads by 26.08 points.

## J9s against 76s: the numbers

**Exact preflop results for J9s against 76s, in percent**

| Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| J9s | 62.413 | 1.252 | 36.335 | 63.039 |
| 76s | 36.335 | 1.252 | 62.413 | 36.961 |

J9s meets 76s, and both are suited hands. Neither hand shares a rank with the other, so this is a contest of high cards, connection and suits.

J9s is ahead, but 76s is far from dead: it takes 363 of every 1,000 deals outright. A split pot comes up on 1.25% of boards, so the wins and the equity differ by half of that.

The hand ranking puts J9s at 55 and 76s at 115 out of 169 starting hands.

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

| Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| J9s | 17,099,000 | 343,000 | 9,955,000 |
| 76s | 9,955,000 | 343,000 | 17,099,000 |

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.

**J9s 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) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| J9s | 1.706 | 1.602 | 2.752 | 0.586 |
| 76s | 0.586 | 2.752 | 1.602 | 1.706 |

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

Break the boards down by their first three cards and J9s is strongest on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better (67.65%) and weakest on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) (45.47%). 76s takes over on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower), so the favorite before the flop is the underdog on those boards.

**J9s against 76s by flop texture, in percent**

| Flop | Share of flops | J9s wins | Ties | 76s wins | J9s equity |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Rainbow, ten or higher | 25.220 | 67.288 | 0.724 | 31.988 | 67.650 |
| Rainbow, nine or lower | 5.689 | 45.283 | 0.373 | 54.344 | 45.470 |
| Two-tone | 46.727 | 62.249 | 0.607 | 37.144 | 62.553 |
| Monotone | 5.273 | 58.446 | 3.653 | 37.901 | 60.273 |
| Paired | 17.091 | 62.594 | 3.343 | 34.063 | 64.265 |

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

A random hand would give J9s 55.66% and 76s 45.37%. Against each other the change is +7.38 points for J9s and -8.41 for 76s.

**J9s 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 |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| J9s, all flops | 63.039 | 55.662 | +7.377 | 1.13253 |
| J9s, rainbow, ten or higher | 67.650 | 55.662 | +11.988 | 1.21537 |
| J9s, rainbow, nine or lower | 45.470 | 55.662 | -10.192 | 0.81689 |
| J9s, two-tone | 62.553 | 55.662 | +6.891 | 1.12380 |
| J9s, monotone | 60.273 | 55.662 | +4.611 | 1.08284 |
| J9s, paired | 64.265 | 55.662 | +8.603 | 1.15456 |
| 76s, all flops | 36.961 | 45.372 | -8.411 | 0.81462 |
| 76s, rainbow, ten or higher | 32.350 | 45.372 | -13.022 | 0.71299 |
| 76s, rainbow, nine or lower | 54.530 | 45.372 | +9.158 | 1.20184 |
| 76s, two-tone | 37.447 | 45.372 | -7.925 | 0.82533 |
| 76s, monotone | 39.727 | 45.372 | -5.645 | 0.87558 |
| 76s, paired | 35.735 | 45.372 | -9.637 | 0.78760 |

## Does a shared suit matter?

Suit overlap shows up in the numbers. With a suit in common J9s has 65.41% equity, and with none in common it has 62.25%. J9s does better with a shared suit, by 3.16 points.

**J9s against 76s by suit overlap, in percent**

| Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | J9s wins | Ties | 76s wins | J9s equity |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Share a suit | 4 | 25.00 | 64.722 | 1.368 | 33.910 | 65.406 |
| No shared suit | 12 | 75.00 | 61.643 | 1.213 | 37.144 | 62.250 |

## How often this matchup comes up

You will meet this exact matchup 0.0020% of the time in a random heads-up deal: 32 of 1,624,350, counting either seat order.

## A worked example

Take a $200 pot built from $100 each. J9s' equity of 63.04% is worth $126.08, a $26.08 edge, and 76s' 36.96% is worth $73.92, which is $26.08 under its stake.

Out of 1,000 deals you should see around 624 outright wins for J9s, 363 for 76s, and 13 split pots.

## The same matchup from the other side

Swap the hands and you get 76s with 36.96% against J9s with 63.04%. We keep one page per matchup, with the better-ranked hand first.

## Keep exploring

Try Js9s against 7h6h in the calculator: the hands share no suit, and every card can be changed. The links after it are the closest matchups in the ranking.

- [Open Js9s against 7h6h in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=Js9s&p2=7h6h)
- [J9s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/j9s.md)
- [76s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/76s.md)
- [J9s vs 75s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/j9s-vs-75s.md)
- [J9s vs 65s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/j9s-vs-65s.md)
- [JTo vs 76s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jto-vs-76s.md)
- [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md)

## How this was computed

Nothing here is simulated. The 16 deals of J9s against 76s fall into a few suit patterns, each dealt against all 1,712,304 boards, with both best five-card hands compared on every board. Ties give each hand half a win, and the flop rows count a board under each of its ten flops.

Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used.

## Related

- [J9s vs 75s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/j9s-vs-75s.md)
- [J9s vs 65s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/j9s-vs-65s.md)
- [JTo vs 76s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jto-vs-76s.md)