--- title: "KQo vs 86s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-86s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-86s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "KQo is a big favorite over 86s before the flop: 60.45% to 39.55% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-76s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-75s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a7s-vs-86s.md"] --- # KQo vs 86s: preflop equity KQo is a big favorite over 86s before the flop: 60.45% to 39.55% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. If KQo and 86s get all the chips in before the flop, KQo owns 60.45% of the pot in the long run and 86s owns 39.55%. ## KQo against 86s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for KQo against 86s, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KQo | 60.134 | 0.635 | 39.231 | 60.452 | | 86s | 39.231 | 0.635 | 60.134 | 39.548 | KQo is an offsuit hand and 86s is a suited hand. Neither hand shares a rank with the other, so this is a contest of high cards, connection and suits. A 20.90 point lead is real, and 86s still takes about 392 of every 1,000 deals outright. Ties are 0.64% of the outcomes here; each tied board gives both hands half the pot. Ranked by equity against a random hand, KQo is number 23 of the 169 starting hands and 86s is number 110. **Boards behind the percentages: 82,190,592 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KQo | 49,424,000 | 522,000 | 32,244,000 | | 86s | 32,244,000 | 522,000 | 49,424,000 | 48 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. **KQo 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KQo | 1.529 | 1.663 | 2.549 | 0.654 | | 86s | 0.654 | 2.549 | 1.663 | 1.529 | 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 KQo prefers rainbow flops topped by a ten or better, where it holds 68.93%, and likes low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) least, where it holds 33.94%. Low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) favor 86s, the hand that is behind overall. **KQo against 86s by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | KQo wins | Ties | 86s wins | KQo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 24.717 | 68.803 | 0.262 | 30.935 | 68.934 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 6.313 | 33.581 | 0.717 | 65.702 | 33.940 | | Two-tone | 46.667 | 58.781 | 0.338 | 40.881 | 58.950 | | Monotone | 5.212 | 57.455 | 2.439 | 40.106 | 58.674 | | Paired | 17.091 | 61.921 | 1.403 | 36.676 | 62.623 | 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 Compared with a random opponent, this matchup shifts KQo from 61.46% by -1.01 points and 86s from 46.24% by -6.69 points. **KQo 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KQo, all flops | 60.452 | 61.456 | -1.004 | 0.98366 | | KQo, rainbow, ten or higher | 68.934 | 61.456 | +7.478 | 1.12168 | | KQo, rainbow, nine or lower | 33.940 | 61.456 | -27.516 | 0.55227 | | KQo, two-tone | 58.950 | 61.456 | -2.506 | 0.95922 | | KQo, monotone | 58.674 | 61.456 | -2.782 | 0.95473 | | KQo, paired | 62.623 | 61.456 | +1.167 | 1.01899 | | 86s, all flops | 39.548 | 46.243 | -6.695 | 0.85522 | | 86s, rainbow, ten or higher | 31.066 | 46.243 | -15.177 | 0.67180 | | 86s, rainbow, nine or lower | 66.060 | 46.243 | +19.817 | 1.42854 | | 86s, two-tone | 41.050 | 46.243 | -5.193 | 0.88770 | | 86s, monotone | 41.326 | 46.243 | -4.917 | 0.89367 | | 86s, paired | 37.377 | 46.243 | -8.866 | 0.80827 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Suit overlap shows up in the numbers. With a suit in common KQo has 61.17% equity, and with none in common it has 59.74%. KQo does better with a shared suit, by 1.43 points. **KQo against 86s by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | KQo wins | Ties | 86s wins | KQo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 24 | 50.00 | 60.831 | 0.676 | 38.493 | 61.169 | | No shared suit | 24 | 50.00 | 59.438 | 0.593 | 39.969 | 59.735 | ## How often this matchup comes up This page stands for 48 specific-card matchups (0.0030% of 1,624,350 ordered deals), or 96 once you count the seats both ways (0.0059%). ## A worked example Try it with money: two players each put in $100 and the whole board runs out every possible way. KQo averages $120.90 from the $200, up $20.90; 86s averages $79.10, down $20.90. Out of 1,000 deals you should see around 601 outright wins for KQo, 392 for 86s, and 7 split pots. ## The same matchup from the other side The reversed view, 86s against KQo, shows 39.55% for 86s and 60.45% for KQo. It is the same count, so it redirects here. ## Keep exploring Try KsQh 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 KsQh against 8d6d in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=KsQh&p2=8d6d) - [KQo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/kqo.md) - [86s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/86s.md) - [KQo vs 76s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-76s.md) - [KQo vs 75s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-75s.md) - [A7s vs 86s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a7s-vs-86s.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed Each figure is a complete count over boards. Take the 48 specific deals, group them by suit pattern, deal all 1,712,304 boards against each, and compare the two seven-card hands. Equity counts a tie as half a win; the flop rows use every one of a board's ten flops. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [KQo vs 76s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-76s.md) - [KQo vs 75s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-75s.md) - [A7s vs 86s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a7s-vs-86s.md)