--- title: "KJo vs 86s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjo-vs-86s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjo-vs-86s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "KJo is a big favorite over 86s before the flop: 60.78% to 39.22% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjo-vs-76s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjo-vs-75s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/55-vs-86s.md"] --- # KJo vs 86s: preflop equity KJo is a big favorite over 86s before the flop: 60.78% to 39.22% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. In equity, KJo against 86s stands at 60.78% to 39.22%, a gap of 21.56 points. ## KJo against 86s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for KJo against 86s, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KJo | 60.461 | 0.635 | 38.904 | 60.779 | | 86s | 38.904 | 0.635 | 60.461 | 39.221 | KJo, an offsuit hand, plays 86s, a suited hand. With no overlap in ranks, every card that pairs one hand is a card that does not pair the other. The lead is steady rather than large, and the flop still has plenty of say in who wins. The tie share is 0.64%: on those boards the pot is chopped and neither hand wins outright. For context, KJo sits at number 26 of 169 starting hands and 86s at number 110 when each is run against a random hand. **Boards behind the percentages: 82,190,592 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KJo | 49,693,000 | 522,000 | 31,975,000 | | 86s | 31,975,000 | 522,000 | 49,693,000 | 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. **KJo 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KJo | 1.550 | 1.654 | 2.570 | 0.645 | | 86s | 0.645 | 2.570 | 1.654 | 1.550 | The last column is the break-even price: the pot odds a call needs to offer, as a ratio of pot to call. ## Who is ahead on which flops KJo prefers rainbow flops topped by a ten or better, where it holds 69.28%, and likes low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) least, where it holds 34.51%. Watch for low rainbow flops (nine high or lower): on those flops 86s holds the better equity. **KJo against 86s by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | KJo wins | Ties | 86s wins | KJo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 24.717 | 69.146 | 0.277 | 30.577 | 69.284 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 6.313 | 34.175 | 0.662 | 65.163 | 34.506 | | Two-tone | 46.667 | 59.152 | 0.336 | 40.512 | 59.320 | | Monotone | 5.212 | 57.734 | 2.435 | 39.831 | 58.952 | | Paired | 17.091 | 62.020 | 1.407 | 36.573 | 62.724 | Flop types: rainbow means three different suits, two-tone means one suit twice, monotone means one suit three times, paired means a repeated rank. ## Compared with a random hand Start from the random-hand figures, 60.57% for KJo and 46.24% for 86s. This opponent changes them by +0.21 and -7.02 points. **KJo 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KJo, all flops | 60.779 | 60.569 | +0.210 | 1.00347 | | KJo, rainbow, ten or higher | 69.284 | 60.569 | +8.715 | 1.14389 | | KJo, rainbow, nine or lower | 34.506 | 60.569 | -26.063 | 0.56970 | | KJo, two-tone | 59.320 | 60.569 | -1.249 | 0.97938 | | KJo, monotone | 58.952 | 60.569 | -1.617 | 0.97330 | | KJo, paired | 62.724 | 60.569 | +2.155 | 1.03558 | | 86s, all flops | 39.221 | 46.243 | -7.022 | 0.84815 | | 86s, rainbow, ten or higher | 30.716 | 46.243 | -15.527 | 0.66423 | | 86s, rainbow, nine or lower | 65.494 | 46.243 | +19.251 | 1.41630 | | 86s, two-tone | 40.680 | 46.243 | -5.563 | 0.87970 | | 86s, monotone | 41.048 | 46.243 | -5.195 | 0.88766 | | 86s, paired | 37.276 | 46.243 | -8.967 | 0.80609 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Looking only at deals where the hands share a suit, KJo has 61.50%; looking only at deals where they do not, 60.06%. KJo does better with a shared suit, by 1.44 points. **KJo against 86s by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | KJo wins | Ties | 86s wins | KJo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 24 | 50.00 | 61.161 | 0.676 | 38.163 | 61.499 | | No shared suit | 24 | 50.00 | 59.762 | 0.593 | 39.645 | 60.058 | ## How often this matchup comes up Exactly 48 specific deals fit this matchup in one seat order, which is 0.0030% of 1,624,350; both orders together give 96, or 0.0059%. ## A worked example Say each player puts $100 in before the flop, making a $200 pot. On average KJo takes back $121.56 of it, which is $21.56 more than it put in, and 86s takes back $78.44, $21.56 less than it put in. Scaled to 1,000 deals, that is roughly 605 wins for KJo, 389 for 86s and 6 chopped pots. ## The same matchup from the other side 86s against KJo adds nothing new: it is 39.22% for 86s and 60.78% for KJo, the same figures reversed. ## Keep exploring Try KsJh against 8d6d 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 8d6d in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=KsJh&p2=8d6d) - [KJo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/kjo.md) - [86s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/86s.md) - [KJo vs 76s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjo-vs-76s.md) - [KJo vs 75s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjo-vs-75s.md) - [55 vs 86s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/55-vs-86s.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed The page is built from a full enumeration: 1,712,304 boards, every suit pattern of the 48 specific deals, both seven-card hands evaluated. A tie is worth half a win to each hand, and a board is tallied under each of its ten possible flops for the texture rows. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [KJo vs 76s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjo-vs-76s.md) - [KJo vs 75s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjo-vs-75s.md) - [55 vs 86s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/55-vs-86s.md)