--- title: "KK vs 76s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-76s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-76s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "KK is a big favorite over 76s before the flop: 77.53% to 22.47% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-75s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-65s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-76s.md"] --- # KK vs 76s: preflop equity KK is a big favorite over 76s before the flop: 77.53% to 22.47% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Averaged over every possible board, KK is ahead of 76s by 55.06 points of equity, 77.53% to 22.47%. ## KK against 76s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for KK against 76s, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KK | 77.355 | 0.351 | 22.294 | 77.531 | | 76s | 22.294 | 0.351 | 77.355 | 22.469 | Here a pocket pair (KK) meets a suited hand (76s). A pair against two lower cards is a lopsided matchup: the pair is ahead and the other hand has no overcard to catch. That is a clear edge, 77.53% to 22.47%, but 76s still wins often enough that one hand proves nothing. The tie share is 0.35%: on those boards the pot is chopped and neither hand wins outright. Place 2 of 169 belongs to KK and place 115 belongs to 76s in the ranking against a random hand. **Boards behind the percentages: 41,095,296 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KK | 31,789,000 | 144,000 | 9,162,000 | | 76s | 9,162,000 | 144,000 | 31,789,000 | The board total is exact, 24 deals at 1,712,304 boards each. Won, tied and lost counts are rounded to the nearest thousand from the five-decimal percentages. **KK 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KK | 3.451 | 1.293 | 4.486 | 0.290 | | 76s | 0.290 | 4.486 | 1.293 | 3.451 | 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 Rainbow flops topped by a ten or better are the best for KK (82.92%); low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) are the worst (62.87%). KK stays ahead on all five textures, but the swing between them is large, so how the flop looks matters a great deal. **KK against 76s by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | KK wins | Ties | 76s wins | KK equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 24.595 | 82.834 | 0.177 | 16.989 | 82.923 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 6.314 | 62.534 | 0.674 | 36.792 | 62.871 | | Two-tone | 46.545 | 75.382 | 0.267 | 24.351 | 75.516 | | Monotone | 5.212 | 71.365 | 2.392 | 26.243 | 72.561 | | Paired | 17.334 | 82.079 | 0.092 | 17.829 | 82.125 | 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 Start from the random-hand figures, 82.40% for KK and 45.37% for 76s. This opponent changes them by -4.87 and -22.90 points. **KK 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KK, all flops | 77.531 | 82.396 | -4.865 | 0.94096 | | KK, rainbow, ten or higher | 82.923 | 82.396 | +0.527 | 1.00640 | | KK, rainbow, nine or lower | 62.871 | 82.396 | -19.525 | 0.76303 | | KK, two-tone | 75.516 | 82.396 | -6.880 | 0.91650 | | KK, monotone | 72.561 | 82.396 | -9.835 | 0.88064 | | KK, paired | 82.125 | 82.396 | -0.271 | 0.99671 | | 76s, all flops | 22.469 | 45.372 | -22.903 | 0.49522 | | 76s, rainbow, ten or higher | 17.077 | 45.372 | -28.295 | 0.37638 | | 76s, rainbow, nine or lower | 37.129 | 45.372 | -8.243 | 0.81832 | | 76s, two-tone | 24.484 | 45.372 | -20.888 | 0.53963 | | 76s, monotone | 27.439 | 45.372 | -17.933 | 0.60476 | | 76s, paired | 17.875 | 45.372 | -27.497 | 0.39397 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Of the deals of this matchup, 12 share a suit (KK at 78.09%) and 12 do not (76.97%). KK does better with a shared suit, by 1.12 points. **KK against 76s by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | KK wins | Ties | 76s wins | KK equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 12 | 50.00 | 77.892 | 0.393 | 21.715 | 78.088 | | No shared suit | 12 | 50.00 | 76.819 | 0.309 | 22.872 | 76.974 | ## How often this matchup comes up KK against 76s is made up of 24 specific-card matchups in one seat order, 0.0015% of the 1,624,350 ordered deals, and 48 counting both seat orders, 0.0030%. ## A worked example Say each player puts $100 in before the flop, making a $200 pot. On average KK takes back $155.06 of it, which is $55.06 more than it put in, and 76s takes back $44.94, $55.06 less than it put in. A thousand deals look like this: KK takes 774, 76s takes 223, 3 are ties. ## The same matchup from the other side One page covers both views. From 76s' side the equity is 22.47%, and from KK's side it is 77.53%. ## Keep exploring KsKh against 7d6d is a ready-made deal for the calculator, with no suit in common between the hands. The neighboring matchups below replace one hand with another of similar strength. - [Open KsKh against 7d6d in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=KsKh&p2=7d6d) - [KK combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/kk.md) - [76s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/76s.md) - [KK vs 75s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-75s.md) - [KK vs 65s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-65s.md) - [QQ vs 76s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-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 24 ways to deal one KK 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 - [KK vs 75s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-75s.md) - [KK vs 65s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kk-vs-65s.md) - [QQ vs 76s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-76s.md)