--- title: "KQo vs 76s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-76s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-76s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "Who is ahead, KQo or 76s? KQo leads 59.22% to 40.78% before the flop, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-75s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-65s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a7s-vs-76s.md"] --- # KQo vs 76s: preflop equity Who is ahead, KQo or 76s? KQo leads 59.22% to 40.78% before the flop, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Dealt all in against each other, KQo takes 59.22% of the pot on average and 76s takes the other 40.78%. ## KQo against 76s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for KQo against 76s, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KQo | 58.903 | 0.626 | 40.471 | 59.216 | | 76s | 40.471 | 0.626 | 58.903 | 40.784 | We compare an offsuit hand with a suited hand. With no overlap in ranks, every card that pairs one hand is a card that does not pair the other. That is a modest edge, the kind that shows up over many hands and is easy to miss in one. Split pots make up 0.63% of the boards, and both equity figures count them as half a win each. Ranked by equity against a random hand, KQo is number 23 of the 169 starting hands 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KQo | 48,413,000 | 515,000 | 33,263,000 | | 76s | 33,263,000 | 515,000 | 48,413,000 | The total is exact: 48 specific deals times 1,712,304 boards. The three counts are approximate, worked out from the percentages to five decimals and rounded to the nearest thousand. **KQo 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KQo | 1.452 | 1.698 | 2.471 | 0.689 | | 76s | 0.689 | 2.471 | 1.698 | 1.452 | 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 Break the boards down by their first three cards and KQo is strongest on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better (67.66%) and weakest on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) (31.89%). Low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) favor 76s, the hand that is behind overall. **KQo against 76s by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | KQo wins | Ties | 76s wins | KQo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 24.717 | 67.532 | 0.262 | 32.206 | 67.663 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 6.313 | 31.568 | 0.649 | 67.783 | 31.893 | | Two-tone | 46.667 | 57.487 | 0.328 | 42.185 | 57.651 | | Monotone | 5.212 | 56.510 | 2.441 | 41.049 | 57.731 | | Paired | 17.091 | 61.116 | 1.407 | 37.477 | 61.819 | 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 Relative to a random opponent, KQo changes by -2.24 points (baseline 61.46%) and 76s by -4.59 points (baseline 45.37%). **KQo 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KQo, all flops | 59.216 | 61.456 | -2.240 | 0.96355 | | KQo, rainbow, ten or higher | 67.663 | 61.456 | +6.207 | 1.10100 | | KQo, rainbow, nine or lower | 31.893 | 61.456 | -29.563 | 0.51896 | | KQo, two-tone | 57.651 | 61.456 | -3.805 | 0.93809 | | KQo, monotone | 57.731 | 61.456 | -3.725 | 0.93939 | | KQo, paired | 61.819 | 61.456 | +0.363 | 1.00591 | | 76s, all flops | 40.784 | 45.372 | -4.588 | 0.89888 | | 76s, rainbow, ten or higher | 32.337 | 45.372 | -13.035 | 0.71271 | | 76s, rainbow, nine or lower | 68.107 | 45.372 | +22.735 | 1.50108 | | 76s, two-tone | 42.349 | 45.372 | -3.023 | 0.93337 | | 76s, monotone | 42.269 | 45.372 | -3.103 | 0.93161 | | 76s, paired | 38.181 | 45.372 | -7.191 | 0.84151 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Suit overlap shows up in the numbers. With a suit in common KQo has 59.91% equity, and with none in common it has 58.52%. KQo does better with a shared suit, by 1.39 points. **KQo against 76s by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | KQo wins | Ties | 76s wins | KQo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 24 | 50.00 | 59.575 | 0.668 | 39.757 | 59.909 | | No shared suit | 24 | 50.00 | 58.231 | 0.585 | 41.184 | 58.523 | ## How often this matchup comes up The class pair covers 48 combinations of specific cards in a fixed seat order, 0.0030% of 1,624,350, and 96 (0.0059%) in either order. ## A worked example With $100 from each side, the $200 pot is split on average as $118.44 for KQo and $81.56 for 76s; the first side gains $18.44 per all-in and the second gives up $18.44. In 1,000 deals of exactly this matchup, expect about 589 won outright by KQo, about 405 won outright by 76s and about 6 split. ## The same matchup from the other side The reversed view, 76s against KQo, shows 40.78% for 76s and 59.22% for KQo. It is the same count, so it redirects here. ## Keep exploring KsQh 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 KsQh against 7d6d in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=KsQh&p2=7d6d) - [KQo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/kqo.md) - [76s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/76s.md) - [KQo vs 75s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-75s.md) - [KQo vs 65s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-65s.md) - [A7s vs 76s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a7s-vs-76s.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed All 1,712,304 five-card boards are dealt for every suit pattern among the 48 specific deals of KQo against 76s, and both hands are scored on each. That is a full count, so the percentages are exact. Ties are half a win each, and each board appears once per flop it contains. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [KQo vs 75s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-75s.md) - [KQo vs 65s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-65s.md) - [A7s vs 76s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a7s-vs-76s.md)