--- title: "JTs vs 76s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jts-vs-76s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jts-vs-76s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "JTs is a big favorite over 76s before the flop: 63.78% to 36.22% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jts-vs-75s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jts-vs-65s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a2s-vs-76s.md"] --- # JTs vs 76s: preflop equity JTs is a big favorite over 76s before the flop: 63.78% to 36.22% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. If JTs and 76s get all the chips in before the flop, JTs owns 63.78% of the pot in the long run and 76s owns 36.22%. ## JTs against 76s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for JTs against 76s, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | JTs | 63.217 | 1.120 | 35.663 | 63.777 | | 76s | 35.663 | 1.120 | 63.217 | 36.223 | Here suited hands face each other, JTs on one side and 76s on the other. The two hands share no rank, which makes this a pure matchup of card strength, straight chances and flush chances. A 27.56 point lead is real, and 76s still takes about 357 of every 1,000 deals outright. About 1.12% of boards chop the pot, which is why equity sits slightly above the win figure for both hands. For context, JTs sits at number 45 of 169 starting hands and 76s at number 115 when each is run against a random hand. **Boards behind the percentages: 27,396,864 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | JTs | 17,319,000 | 307,000 | 9,771,000 | | 76s | 9,771,000 | 307,000 | 17,319,000 | Exact total: 16 deals times 1,712,304 boards. The other three counts come from the five-decimal percentages and are rounded to the nearest thousand, so read them as approximate. **JTs 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | JTs | 1.761 | 1.582 | 2.804 | 0.568 | | 76s | 0.568 | 2.804 | 1.582 | 1.761 | 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 By flop texture, JTs' equity runs from 40.54% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) up to 70.62% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better. On low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) the numbers flip and 76s is the one ahead. **JTs against 76s by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | JTs wins | Ties | 76s wins | JTs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 24.595 | 70.322 | 0.594 | 29.084 | 70.619 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 6.314 | 40.351 | 0.379 | 59.270 | 40.540 | | Two-tone | 46.727 | 63.127 | 0.512 | 36.361 | 63.383 | | Monotone | 5.273 | 59.165 | 3.593 | 37.242 | 60.962 | | Paired | 17.091 | 62.935 | 3.050 | 34.015 | 64.460 | 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, JTs changes by +6.25 points (baseline 57.53%) and 76s by -9.15 points (baseline 45.37%). **JTs 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | JTs, all flops | 63.777 | 57.528 | +6.249 | 1.10863 | | JTs, rainbow, ten or higher | 70.619 | 57.528 | +13.091 | 1.22756 | | JTs, rainbow, nine or lower | 40.540 | 57.528 | -16.988 | 0.70470 | | JTs, two-tone | 63.383 | 57.528 | +5.855 | 1.10178 | | JTs, monotone | 60.962 | 57.528 | +3.434 | 1.05969 | | JTs, paired | 64.460 | 57.528 | +6.932 | 1.12050 | | 76s, all flops | 36.223 | 45.372 | -9.149 | 0.79836 | | 76s, rainbow, ten or higher | 29.381 | 45.372 | -15.991 | 0.64756 | | 76s, rainbow, nine or lower | 59.460 | 45.372 | +14.088 | 1.31050 | | 76s, two-tone | 36.617 | 45.372 | -8.755 | 0.80704 | | 76s, monotone | 39.038 | 45.372 | -6.334 | 0.86040 | | 76s, paired | 35.540 | 45.372 | -9.832 | 0.78330 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Two kinds of deal exist here. In 4 of them the hands share a suit and JTs holds 66.18%. In 12 they do not, and it holds 62.98%. JTs does better with a shared suit, by 3.20 points. **JTs against 76s by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | JTs wins | Ties | 76s wins | JTs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 4 | 25.00 | 65.566 | 1.229 | 33.205 | 66.181 | | No shared suit | 12 | 75.00 | 62.433 | 1.084 | 36.483 | 62.975 | ## How often this matchup comes up How often does it happen? 16 of the 1,624,350 ordered deals (0.0010%) are JTs against 76s, and 32 (0.0020%) if either hand may sit in either seat. ## A worked example Worked example: both players commit $100, so $200 sits in the middle. Over every board, JTs' average share is $127.56 (a gain of $27.56) and 76s' is $72.44 (a loss of $27.56). Per 1,000 deals: JTs wins about 632, 76s wins about 357, and about 11 end in a split pot. ## The same matchup from the other side 76s versus JTs is this same page seen from the other hand: 36.22% for 76s, 63.78% for JTs. ## Keep exploring Open the calculator with JsTs against 7h6h 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 JsTs against 7h6h in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=JsTs&p2=7h6h) - [JTs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/jts.md) - [76s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/76s.md) - [JTs vs 75s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jts-vs-75s.md) - [JTs vs 65s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jts-vs-65s.md) - [A2s vs 76s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a2s-vs-76s.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed All 1,712,304 five-card boards are dealt for every suit pattern among the 16 specific deals of JTs against 76s, and both hands are scored on each. That is a full count, so the percentages are exact. Ties are half a win each, and each board appears once per flop it contains. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [JTs vs 75s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jts-vs-75s.md) - [JTs vs 65s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jts-vs-65s.md) - [A2s vs 76s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a2s-vs-76s.md)