--- title: "JTo vs 86s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jto-vs-86s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jto-vs-86s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "JTo is a big favorite over 86s before the flop: 62.44% to 37.56% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jto-vs-76s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jto-vs-75s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/t9s-vs-86s.md"] --- # JTo vs 86s: preflop equity JTo is a big favorite over 86s before the flop: 62.44% to 37.56% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Averaged over every possible board, JTo is ahead of 86s by 24.88 points of equity, 62.44% to 37.56%. ## JTo against 86s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for JTo against 86s, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | JTo | 61.885 | 1.113 | 37.002 | 62.441 | | 86s | 37.002 | 1.113 | 61.885 | 37.559 | JTo and 86s are an offsuit hand and a suited hand, in that order. The two hands share no rank, which makes this a pure matchup of card strength, straight chances and flush chances. JTo is ahead, but 86s is far from dead: it takes 370 of every 1,000 deals outright. A split pot comes up on 1.11% of boards, so the wins and the equity differ by half of that. By strength against a random hand, JTo holds place 57 of 169 and 86s holds place 110. **Boards behind the percentages: 82,190,592 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | JTo | 50,864,000 | 915,000 | 30,412,000 | | 86s | 30,412,000 | 915,000 | 50,864,000 | The board total is exact, 48 deals at 1,712,304 boards each. Won, tied and lost counts are rounded to the nearest thousand from the five-decimal percentages. **JTo 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | JTo | 1.662 | 1.616 | 2.703 | 0.602 | | 86s | 0.602 | 2.703 | 1.616 | 1.662 | In the last column, a pot-to-call ratio at or above the figure makes a call break even or better at this equity. ## Who is ahead on which flops Across the five flop textures JTo's equity moves by 29.78 points, from 40.45% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) to 70.23% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better. 86s takes over on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower), so the favorite before the flop is the underdog on those boards. **JTo against 86s by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | JTo wins | Ties | 86s wins | JTo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 24.717 | 69.929 | 0.602 | 29.469 | 70.230 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 6.313 | 40.220 | 0.466 | 59.314 | 40.453 | | Two-tone | 46.667 | 60.938 | 0.544 | 38.518 | 61.210 | | Monotone | 5.212 | 59.120 | 2.600 | 38.280 | 60.420 | | Paired | 17.091 | 61.684 | 3.191 | 35.125 | 63.279 | Read the flop types this way: rainbow has three suits, two-tone has two cards of one suit, monotone has three, and paired repeats a rank. ## Compared with a random hand Relative to a random opponent, JTo changes by +7.19 points (baseline 55.25%) and 86s by -8.68 points (baseline 46.24%). **JTo 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | JTo, all flops | 62.441 | 55.248 | +7.193 | 1.13019 | | JTo, rainbow, ten or higher | 70.230 | 55.248 | +14.982 | 1.27118 | | JTo, rainbow, nine or lower | 40.453 | 55.248 | -14.795 | 0.73221 | | JTo, two-tone | 61.210 | 55.248 | +5.962 | 1.10791 | | JTo, monotone | 60.420 | 55.248 | +5.172 | 1.09361 | | JTo, paired | 63.279 | 55.248 | +8.031 | 1.14536 | | 86s, all flops | 37.559 | 46.243 | -8.684 | 0.81221 | | 86s, rainbow, ten or higher | 29.770 | 46.243 | -16.473 | 0.64377 | | 86s, rainbow, nine or lower | 59.547 | 46.243 | +13.304 | 1.28770 | | 86s, two-tone | 38.790 | 46.243 | -7.453 | 0.83883 | | 86s, monotone | 39.580 | 46.243 | -6.663 | 0.85591 | | 86s, paired | 36.721 | 46.243 | -9.522 | 0.79409 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Does suit overlap move the numbers? JTo has 63.16% when the hands share a suit and 61.72% when they do not. JTo does better with a shared suit, by 1.44 points. **JTo against 86s by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | JTo wins | Ties | 86s wins | JTo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 24 | 50.00 | 62.580 | 1.156 | 36.264 | 63.158 | | No shared suit | 24 | 50.00 | 61.189 | 1.070 | 37.741 | 61.724 | ## How often this matchup comes up Out of 1,624,350 ways to deal two seats two cards each, 48 are JTo in one seat and 86s in the other (0.0030%); with the seats swapped too, 96 (0.0059%). ## A worked example Worked example: both players commit $100, so $200 sits in the middle. Over every board, JTo's average share is $124.88 (a gain of $24.88) and 86s' is $75.12 (a loss of $24.88). A thousand deals look like this: JTo takes 619, 86s takes 370, 11 are ties. ## The same matchup from the other side 86s versus JTo is this same page seen from the other hand: 37.56% for 86s, 62.44% for JTo. ## Keep exploring Open the calculator with JsTh against 8d6d already entered, a deal with no shared suit, and change any card to try your own hand. The matchups after it each swap one hand for a nearby one in the ranking. - [Open JsTh against 8d6d in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=JsTh&p2=8d6d) - [JTo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/jto.md) - [86s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/86s.md) - [JTo vs 76s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jto-vs-76s.md) - [JTo vs 75s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jto-vs-75s.md) - [T9s vs 86s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/t9s-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 JTo 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 - [JTo vs 76s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jto-vs-76s.md) - [JTo vs 75s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jto-vs-75s.md) - [T9s vs 86s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/t9s-vs-86s.md)