--- title: "KJo vs 76s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjo-vs-76s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjo-vs-76s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "Who is ahead, KJo or 76s? KJo leads 59.54% to 40.46% before the flop, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjo-vs-75s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjo-vs-65s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/55-vs-76s.md"] --- # KJo vs 76s: preflop equity Who is ahead, KJo or 76s? KJo leads 59.54% to 40.46% before the flop, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Over all 1,712,304 boards that can follow this deal, KJo finishes with 59.54% of the pot and 76s with 40.46%. ## KJo against 76s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for KJo against 76s, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KJo | 59.230 | 0.626 | 40.144 | 59.543 | | 76s | 40.144 | 0.626 | 59.230 | 40.457 | KJo, an offsuit hand, plays 76s, a suited hand. Neither hand shares a rank with the other, so this is a contest of high cards, connection and suits. KJo is ahead, but 76s is far from dead: it takes 402 of every 1,000 deals outright. Ties are 0.63% of the outcomes here; each tied board gives both hands half the pot. In the ranking of all 169 starting hands, KJo is number 26 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KJo | 48,681,000 | 515,000 | 32,995,000 | | 76s | 32,995,000 | 515,000 | 48,681,000 | Exact total: 48 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. **KJo 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KJo | 1.472 | 1.688 | 2.491 | 0.679 | | 76s | 0.679 | 2.491 | 1.688 | 1.472 | 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 Across the five flop textures KJo's equity moves by 35.55 points, from 32.46% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) to 68.01% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better. The lead reverses on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower): there 76s is the favorite even though KJo is ahead overall. **KJo against 76s by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | KJo wins | Ties | 76s wins | KJo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 24.717 | 67.876 | 0.277 | 31.847 | 68.014 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 6.313 | 32.162 | 0.594 | 67.244 | 32.459 | | Two-tone | 46.667 | 57.858 | 0.326 | 41.816 | 58.021 | | Monotone | 5.212 | 56.790 | 2.437 | 40.773 | 58.008 | | Paired | 17.091 | 61.215 | 1.411 | 37.374 | 61.921 | 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, KJo changes by -1.03 points (baseline 60.57%) and 76s by -4.91 points (baseline 45.37%). **KJo 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KJo, all flops | 59.543 | 60.569 | -1.026 | 0.98306 | | KJo, rainbow, ten or higher | 68.014 | 60.569 | +7.445 | 1.12292 | | KJo, rainbow, nine or lower | 32.459 | 60.569 | -28.110 | 0.53590 | | KJo, two-tone | 58.021 | 60.569 | -2.548 | 0.95793 | | KJo, monotone | 58.008 | 60.569 | -2.561 | 0.95772 | | KJo, paired | 61.921 | 60.569 | +1.352 | 1.02232 | | 76s, all flops | 40.457 | 45.372 | -4.915 | 0.89167 | | 76s, rainbow, ten or higher | 31.986 | 45.372 | -13.386 | 0.70497 | | 76s, rainbow, nine or lower | 67.541 | 45.372 | +22.169 | 1.48861 | | 76s, two-tone | 41.979 | 45.372 | -3.393 | 0.92522 | | 76s, monotone | 41.992 | 45.372 | -3.380 | 0.92550 | | 76s, paired | 38.079 | 45.372 | -7.293 | 0.83926 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Two kinds of deal exist here. In 24 of them the hands share a suit and KJo holds 60.24%. In 24 they do not, and it holds 58.85%. KJo does better with a shared suit, by 1.39 points. **KJo against 76s by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | KJo wins | Ties | 76s wins | KJo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 24 | 50.00 | 59.905 | 0.668 | 39.427 | 60.239 | | No shared suit | 24 | 50.00 | 58.554 | 0.585 | 40.861 | 58.847 | ## How often this matchup comes up Out of 1,624,350 ways to deal two seats two cards each, 48 are KJo in one seat and 76s in the other (0.0030%); with the seats swapped too, 96 (0.0059%). ## A worked example With $100 from each side, the $200 pot is split on average as $119.08 for KJo and $80.92 for 76s; the first side gains $19.08 per all-in and the second gives up $19.08. Run 1,000 deals and the tally comes out near 592 for KJo, 402 for 76s and 6 ties. ## The same matchup from the other side Swap the hands and you get 76s with 40.46% against KJo with 59.54%. We keep one page per matchup, with the better-ranked hand first. ## Keep exploring Try KsJh against 7d6d 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 KsJh against 7d6d in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=KsJh&p2=7d6d) - [KJo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/kjo.md) - [76s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/76s.md) - [KJo vs 75s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjo-vs-75s.md) - [KJo vs 65s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjo-vs-65s.md) - [55 vs 76s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/55-vs-76s.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 KJo and one 76s 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 - [KJo vs 75s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjo-vs-75s.md) - [KJo vs 65s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjo-vs-65s.md) - [55 vs 76s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/55-vs-76s.md)