--- title: "K9s vs 76s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9s-vs-76s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9s-vs-76s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "K9s is a big favorite over 76s before the flop: 61.57% to 38.43% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9s-vs-75s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9s-vs-65s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a5s-vs-76s.md"] --- # K9s vs 76s: preflop equity K9s is a big favorite over 76s before the flop: 61.57% to 38.43% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. If K9s and 76s get all the chips in before the flop, K9s owns 61.57% of the pot in the long run and 76s owns 38.43%. ## K9s against 76s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for K9s against 76s, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | K9s | 61.235 | 0.668 | 38.097 | 61.569 | | 76s | 38.097 | 0.668 | 61.235 | 38.431 | Two suited hands meet here: K9s against 76s. With no overlap in ranks, every card that pairs one hand is a card that does not pair the other. A 23.14 point lead is real, and 76s still takes about 381 of every 1,000 deals outright. Ties are 0.67% of the outcomes here; each tied board gives both hands half the pot. K9s ranks number 29 of 169 starting hands, and 76s ranks number 115, by equity against a random hand. **Boards behind the percentages: 27,396,864 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | K9s | 16,776,000 | 183,000 | 10,437,000 | | 76s | 10,437,000 | 183,000 | 16,776,000 | 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. **K9s 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | K9s | 1.602 | 1.633 | 2.625 | 0.624 | | 76s | 0.624 | 2.625 | 1.633 | 1.602 | 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 Rainbow flops topped by a ten or better are the best for K9s (65.68%); low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) are the worst (43.58%). The lead reverses on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower): there 76s is the favorite even though K9s is ahead overall. **K9s against 76s by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | K9s wins | Ties | 76s wins | K9s equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 25.220 | 65.530 | 0.306 | 34.164 | 65.683 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 5.689 | 43.363 | 0.437 | 56.200 | 43.582 | | Two-tone | 46.727 | 60.660 | 0.307 | 39.033 | 60.813 | | Monotone | 5.273 | 57.177 | 3.461 | 39.362 | 58.908 | | Paired | 17.091 | 63.668 | 1.408 | 34.924 | 64.372 | 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 The table below sets each hand against its own random-hand baseline: a change of +1.58 points for K9s, from 59.99%, and -6.94 for 76s, from 45.37%. **K9s 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | K9s, all flops | 61.569 | 59.988 | +1.581 | 1.02636 | | K9s, rainbow, ten or higher | 65.683 | 59.988 | +5.695 | 1.09494 | | K9s, rainbow, nine or lower | 43.582 | 59.988 | -16.406 | 0.72651 | | K9s, two-tone | 60.813 | 59.988 | +0.825 | 1.01375 | | K9s, monotone | 58.908 | 59.988 | -1.080 | 0.98200 | | K9s, paired | 64.372 | 59.988 | +4.384 | 1.07308 | | 76s, all flops | 38.431 | 45.372 | -6.941 | 0.84702 | | 76s, rainbow, ten or higher | 34.317 | 45.372 | -11.055 | 0.75635 | | 76s, rainbow, nine or lower | 56.418 | 45.372 | +11.046 | 1.24345 | | 76s, two-tone | 39.187 | 45.372 | -6.185 | 0.86368 | | 76s, monotone | 41.092 | 45.372 | -4.280 | 0.90567 | | 76s, paired | 35.628 | 45.372 | -9.744 | 0.78524 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Does suit overlap move the numbers? K9s has 63.78% when the hands share a suit and 60.83% when they do not. K9s does better with a shared suit, by 2.95 points. **K9s against 76s by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | K9s wins | Ties | 76s wins | K9s equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 4 | 25.00 | 63.406 | 0.752 | 35.842 | 63.782 | | No shared suit | 12 | 75.00 | 60.511 | 0.640 | 38.849 | 60.831 | ## How often this matchup comes up Exactly 16 specific deals fit this matchup in one seat order, which is 0.0010% of 1,624,350; both orders together give 32, or 0.0020%. ## A worked example A $100 all-in from each player makes a $200 pot, and the exact equity says K9s gets $123.14 of it on average and 76s gets $76.86. A thousand deals look like this: K9s takes 612, 76s takes 381, 7 are ties. ## The same matchup from the other side One page covers both views. From 76s' side the equity is 38.43%, and from K9s' side it is 61.57%. ## Keep exploring Try Ks9s 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 Ks9s against 7h6h in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=Ks9s&p2=7h6h) - [K9s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/k9s.md) - [76s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/76s.md) - [K9s vs 75s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9s-vs-75s.md) - [K9s vs 65s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9s-vs-65s.md) - [A5s vs 76s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a5s-vs-76s.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed We counted every case. Each suit pattern of the 16 specific K9s 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 - [K9s vs 75s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9s-vs-75s.md) - [K9s vs 65s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9s-vs-65s.md) - [A5s vs 76s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a5s-vs-76s.md)