--- title: "KJs vs 76s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjs-vs-76s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjs-vs-76s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "KJs is a big favorite over 76s before the flop: 62.10% to 37.90% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjs-vs-75s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjs-vs-65s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a8s-vs-76s.md"] --- # KJs vs 76s: preflop equity KJs is a big favorite over 76s before the flop: 62.10% to 37.90% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Over all 1,712,304 boards that can follow this deal, KJs finishes with 62.10% of the pot and 76s with 37.90%. ## KJs against 76s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for KJs against 76s, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KJs | 61.769 | 0.663 | 37.568 | 62.101 | | 76s | 37.568 | 0.663 | 61.769 | 37.899 | Two suited hands meet here: KJs against 76s. With no overlap in ranks, every card that pairs one hand is a card that does not pair the other. KJs is ahead, but 76s is far from dead: it takes 376 of every 1,000 deals outright. Ties are part of the picture: 0.66% of boards end in a split pot, and each side counts that as half a win. Among the 169 starting hands, KJs is number 20 and 76s is number 115 by strength against a random hand. **Boards behind the percentages: 27,396,864 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KJs | 16,923,000 | 182,000 | 10,292,000 | | 76s | 10,292,000 | 182,000 | 16,923,000 | 16 specific deals times 1,712,304 boards gives the exact total. The won, tied and lost counts are approximations from the five-decimal percentages, rounded to the nearest thousand. **KJs 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KJs | 1.639 | 1.619 | 2.662 | 0.610 | | 76s | 0.610 | 2.662 | 1.619 | 1.639 | 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 KJs' equity moves by 34.33 points, from 35.00% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) to 69.33% 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 KJs is ahead overall. **KJs against 76s by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | KJs wins | Ties | 76s wins | KJs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 24.595 | 69.191 | 0.269 | 30.540 | 69.325 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 6.314 | 34.715 | 0.566 | 64.719 | 34.998 | | Two-tone | 46.727 | 61.339 | 0.308 | 38.353 | 61.493 | | Monotone | 5.273 | 57.834 | 3.463 | 38.703 | 59.566 | | Paired | 17.091 | 63.472 | 1.374 | 35.154 | 64.159 | A rainbow flop shows three suits, a two-tone flop repeats one suit, a monotone flop is a single suit, and a paired flop repeats a rank. ## Compared with a random hand Each hand has a baseline against a random hand: 62.57% for KJs, 45.37% for 76s. Here the change is -0.47 and -7.47 points. **KJs 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KJs, all flops | 62.101 | 62.567 | -0.466 | 0.99255 | | KJs, rainbow, ten or higher | 69.325 | 62.567 | +6.758 | 1.10801 | | KJs, rainbow, nine or lower | 34.998 | 62.567 | -27.569 | 0.55937 | | KJs, two-tone | 61.493 | 62.567 | -1.074 | 0.98283 | | KJs, monotone | 59.566 | 62.567 | -3.001 | 0.95204 | | KJs, paired | 64.159 | 62.567 | +1.592 | 1.02544 | | 76s, all flops | 37.899 | 45.372 | -7.473 | 0.83529 | | 76s, rainbow, ten or higher | 30.675 | 45.372 | -14.697 | 0.67608 | | 76s, rainbow, nine or lower | 65.002 | 45.372 | +19.630 | 1.43265 | | 76s, two-tone | 38.507 | 45.372 | -6.865 | 0.84870 | | 76s, monotone | 40.434 | 45.372 | -4.938 | 0.89117 | | 76s, paired | 35.841 | 45.372 | -9.531 | 0.78994 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Looking only at deals where the hands share a suit, KJs has 64.30%; looking only at deals where they do not, 61.37%. KJs does better with a shared suit, by 2.93 points. **KJs against 76s by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | KJs wins | Ties | 76s wins | KJs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 4 | 25.00 | 63.923 | 0.749 | 35.328 | 64.297 | | No shared suit | 12 | 75.00 | 61.051 | 0.635 | 38.314 | 61.368 | ## 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 Worked example: both players commit $100, so $200 sits in the middle. Over every board, KJs' average share is $124.20 (a gain of $24.20) and 76s' is $75.80 (a loss of $24.20). A thousand deals look like this: KJs takes 618, 76s takes 376, 6 are ties. ## The same matchup from the other side 76s against KJs adds nothing new: it is 37.90% for 76s and 62.10% for KJs, the same figures reversed. ## Keep exploring Try KsJs 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 KsJs against 7h6h in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=KsJs&p2=7h6h) - [KJs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/kjs.md) - [76s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/76s.md) - [KJs vs 75s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjs-vs-75s.md) - [KJs vs 65s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjs-vs-65s.md) - [A8s vs 76s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a8s-vs-76s.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed Nothing here is simulated. The 16 deals of KJs against 76s fall into a few suit patterns, each dealt against all 1,712,304 boards, with both best five-card hands compared on every board. Ties give each hand half a win, and the flop rows count a board under each of its ten flops. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [KJs vs 75s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjs-vs-75s.md) - [KJs vs 65s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kjs-vs-65s.md) - [A8s vs 76s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a8s-vs-76s.md)