KQs vs 76s: preflop equity

In equity, KQs against 76s stands at 61.79% to 38.21%, a gap of 23.58 points.

KQs

61.79%

Wins 61.46%, ties 0.66%

76s

38.21%

Wins 37.88%, ties 0.66%

Equity counts a tie as half a win. Exact over every board.

KQs against 76s: the numbers

Exact preflop results for KQs against 76s, in percent
HandWinsTiesLosesEquity
KQs61.4630.66237.87561.794
76s37.8750.66261.46338.206

Both hands are suited hands: KQs and 76s. The two hands share no rank, which makes this a pure matchup of card strength, straight chances and flush chances.

A 23.58 point lead is real, and 76s still takes about 379 of every 1,000 deals outright. Of every 100 boards, about 0.66 are split pots, and the equity figures already include them.

The hand ranking puts KQs at 16 and 76s at 115 out of 169 starting hands.

Boards behind the percentages: 27,396,864 counted in all
HandBoards won, aboutBoards tied, aboutBoards lost, about
KQs16,839,000181,00010,377,000
76s10,377,000181,00016,839,000

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.

KQs against 76s read as odds
HandEquity as odds (to 1)Wins one deal inLoses one deal inPot odds needed to call (to 1)
KQs1.6171.6272.6400.618
76s0.6182.6401.6271.617

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

Split by what the flop looks like, KQs peaks at 68.99% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better and bottoms out at 34.45% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower). On low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) the numbers flip and 76s is the one ahead.

KQs against 76s by flop texture, in percent
FlopShare of flopsKQs winsTies76s winsKQs equity
Rainbow, ten or higher24.59568.8590.25430.88768.986
Rainbow, nine or lower6.31434.1430.61865.23934.452
Two-tone46.72761.0000.30738.69361.153
Monotone5.27357.5713.46438.96559.303
Paired17.09163.3791.37035.25164.064

Flop types: rainbow means three different suits, two-tone means one suit twice, monotone means one suit three times, paired means a repeated rank.

Compared with a random hand

Against one random hand instead, KQs holds 63.40% and 76s holds 45.37%. Facing each other changes that by -1.61 points for KQs and -7.16 points for 76s.

KQs and 76s here compared with each against a random hand, in percent
CaseEquity hereAgainst a random handChange in pointsTimes the random-hand equity
KQs, all flops61.79463.400-1.6060.97467
KQs, rainbow, ten or higher68.98663.400+5.5861.08811
KQs, rainbow, nine or lower34.45263.400-28.9480.54341
KQs, two-tone61.15363.400-2.2470.96456
KQs, monotone59.30363.400-4.0970.93538
KQs, paired64.06463.400+0.6641.01047
76s, all flops38.20645.372-7.1660.84206
76s, rainbow, ten or higher31.01445.372-14.3580.68355
76s, rainbow, nine or lower65.54845.372+20.1761.44468
76s, two-tone38.84745.372-6.5250.85619
76s, monotone40.69745.372-4.6750.89696
76s, paired35.93645.372-9.4360.79203

Does a shared suit matter?

Of the deals of this matchup, 4 share a suit (KQs at 63.96%) and 12 do not (61.07%). KQs does better with a shared suit, by 2.89 points.

KQs against 76s by suit overlap, in percent
DealsSpecific dealsShare of dealsKQs winsTies76s winsKQs equity
Share a suit425.0063.5850.74935.66663.960
No shared suit1275.0060.7560.63338.61161.072

How often this matchup comes up

KQs against 76s is made up of 16 specific-card matchups in one seat order, 0.0010% of the 1,624,350 ordered deals, and 32 counting both seat orders, 0.0020%.

A worked example

To see what the equity is worth, imagine $100 each in a $200 pot. KQs is worth $123.58 on average (+$23.58); 76s is worth $76.42 (-$23.58).

Think in thousands: about 615 of 1,000 go to KQs, about 379 go to 76s, and about 6 are chopped.

The same matchup from the other side

76s against KQs adds nothing new: it is 38.21% for 76s and 61.79% for KQs, the same figures reversed.

KsQs against 7h6h 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.

How this was computed

This is an exact count with no sampling. For the 16 ways to deal one KQs 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.

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