--- title: "KQo vs 87s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-87s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-87s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "KQo is a big favorite over 87s before the flop: 60.74% to 39.26% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-86s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-76s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a7s-vs-87s.md"] --- # KQo vs 87s: preflop equity KQo is a big favorite over 87s before the flop: 60.74% to 39.26% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. If KQo and 87s get all the chips in before the flop, KQo owns 60.74% of the pot in the long run and 87s owns 39.26%. ## KQo against 87s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for KQo against 87s, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KQo | 60.421 | 0.645 | 38.934 | 60.743 | | 87s | 38.934 | 0.645 | 60.421 | 39.257 | KQo, an offsuit hand, plays 87s, a suited hand. Neither hand shares a rank with the other, so this is a contest of high cards, connection and suits. That is a modest edge, the kind that shows up over many hands and is easy to miss in one. Split pots make up 0.65% of the boards, and both equity figures count them as half a win each. Among the 169 starting hands, KQo is number 23 and 87s is number 100 by strength against a random hand. **Boards behind the percentages: 82,190,592 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KQo | 49,660,000 | 530,000 | 32,000,000 | | 87s | 32,000,000 | 530,000 | 49,660,000 | 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. **KQo against 87s 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 | 1.547 | 1.655 | 2.568 | 0.646 | | 87s | 0.646 | 2.568 | 1.655 | 1.547 | 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 The flop changes the picture. KQo does best on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better, at 69.13%, and worst on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower), at 35.04%. On low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) the numbers flip and 87s is the one ahead. **KQo against 87s by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | KQo wins | Ties | 87s wins | KQo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 24.717 | 68.973 | 0.314 | 30.713 | 69.130 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 6.313 | 34.738 | 0.593 | 64.669 | 35.035 | | Two-tone | 46.667 | 59.108 | 0.350 | 40.542 | 59.283 | | Monotone | 5.212 | 57.639 | 2.444 | 39.917 | 58.861 | | Paired | 17.091 | 61.972 | 1.399 | 36.629 | 62.672 | 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 How much does the opponent matter? Compared with its random-hand 61.46%, KQo changes by -0.72 points, and 87s, from 47.94%, by -8.68. **KQo and 87s 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 | 60.743 | 61.456 | -0.713 | 0.98840 | | KQo, rainbow, ten or higher | 69.130 | 61.456 | +7.674 | 1.12487 | | KQo, rainbow, nine or lower | 35.035 | 61.456 | -26.421 | 0.57008 | | KQo, two-tone | 59.283 | 61.456 | -2.173 | 0.96464 | | KQo, monotone | 58.861 | 61.456 | -2.595 | 0.95777 | | KQo, paired | 62.672 | 61.456 | +1.216 | 1.01979 | | 87s, all flops | 39.257 | 47.936 | -8.679 | 0.81895 | | 87s, rainbow, ten or higher | 30.870 | 47.936 | -17.066 | 0.64398 | | 87s, rainbow, nine or lower | 64.965 | 47.936 | +17.029 | 1.35524 | | 87s, two-tone | 40.717 | 47.936 | -7.219 | 0.84940 | | 87s, monotone | 41.139 | 47.936 | -6.797 | 0.85821 | | 87s, paired | 37.328 | 47.936 | -10.608 | 0.77870 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Two kinds of deal exist here. In 24 of them the hands share a suit and KQo holds 61.46%. In 24 they do not, and it holds 60.03%. KQo does better with a shared suit, by 1.43 points. **KQo against 87s by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | KQo wins | Ties | 87s wins | KQo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 24 | 50.00 | 61.116 | 0.686 | 38.198 | 61.459 | | No shared suit | 24 | 50.00 | 59.725 | 0.604 | 39.671 | 60.027 | ## 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 Worked example: both players commit $100, so $200 sits in the middle. Over every board, KQo's average share is $121.48 (a gain of $21.48) and 87s' is $78.52 (a loss of $21.48). Out of 1,000 deals you should see around 604 outright wins for KQo, 389 for 87s, and 7 split pots. ## The same matchup from the other side 87s against KQo adds nothing new: it is 39.26% for 87s and 60.74% for KQo, the same figures reversed. ## Keep exploring KsQh against 8d7d 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 8d7d in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=KsQh&p2=8d7d) - [KQo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/kqo.md) - [87s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/87s.md) - [KQo vs 86s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-86s.md) - [KQo vs 76s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-76s.md) - [A7s vs 87s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a7s-vs-87s.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 87s, 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 86s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-86s.md) - [KQo vs 76s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-76s.md) - [A7s vs 87s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a7s-vs-87s.md)