--- title: "KTs vs 76s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-76s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-76s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "KTs is a big favorite over 76s before the flop: 61.95% to 38.05% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-75s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-65s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-76s.md"] --- # KTs vs 76s: preflop equity KTs is a big favorite over 76s before the flop: 61.95% to 38.05% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. If KTs and 76s get all the chips in before the flop, KTs owns 61.95% of the pot in the long run and 76s owns 38.05%. ## KTs against 76s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for KTs against 76s, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KTs | 61.626 | 0.657 | 37.717 | 61.954 | | 76s | 37.717 | 0.657 | 61.626 | 38.046 | KTs meets 76s, and both are suited hands. The two hands share no rank, which makes this a pure matchup of card strength, straight chances and flush chances. KTs is ahead, but 76s is far from dead: it takes 377 of every 1,000 deals outright. Ties are 0.66% of the outcomes here; each tied board gives both hands half the pot. Place 22 of 169 belongs to KTs and place 115 belongs to 76s in the ranking against a random hand. **Boards behind the percentages: 27,396,864 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KTs | 16,884,000 | 180,000 | 10,333,000 | | 76s | 10,333,000 | 180,000 | 16,884,000 | Exact total: 16 deals times 1,712,304 boards. The other three counts come from the five-decimal percentages and are rounded to the nearest thousand, so read them as approximate. **KTs 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KTs | 1.628 | 1.623 | 2.651 | 0.614 | | 76s | 0.614 | 2.651 | 1.623 | 1.628 | 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 Split by what the flop looks like, KTs peaks at 68.95% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better and bottoms out at 35.47% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower). Watch for low rainbow flops (nine high or lower): on those flops 76s holds the better equity. **KTs against 76s by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | KTs wins | Ties | 76s wins | KTs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 24.595 | 68.805 | 0.291 | 30.904 | 68.950 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 6.314 | 35.247 | 0.440 | 64.313 | 35.467 | | Two-tone | 46.727 | 61.137 | 0.300 | 38.563 | 61.287 | | Monotone | 5.273 | 57.615 | 3.459 | 38.926 | 59.345 | | Paired | 17.091 | 63.613 | 1.378 | 35.009 | 64.302 | 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 The table below sets each hand against its own random-hand baseline: a change of +0.16 points for KTs, from 61.79%, and -7.32 for 76s, from 45.37%. **KTs 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | KTs, all flops | 61.954 | 61.789 | +0.165 | 1.00267 | | KTs, rainbow, ten or higher | 68.950 | 61.789 | +7.161 | 1.11589 | | KTs, rainbow, nine or lower | 35.467 | 61.789 | -26.322 | 0.57400 | | KTs, two-tone | 61.287 | 61.789 | -0.502 | 0.99188 | | KTs, monotone | 59.345 | 61.789 | -2.444 | 0.96045 | | KTs, paired | 64.302 | 61.789 | +2.513 | 1.04067 | | 76s, all flops | 38.046 | 45.372 | -7.326 | 0.83853 | | 76s, rainbow, ten or higher | 31.050 | 45.372 | -14.322 | 0.68434 | | 76s, rainbow, nine or lower | 64.533 | 45.372 | +19.161 | 1.42231 | | 76s, two-tone | 38.713 | 45.372 | -6.659 | 0.85324 | | 76s, monotone | 40.655 | 45.372 | -4.717 | 0.89604 | | 76s, paired | 35.698 | 45.372 | -9.674 | 0.78678 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Split by suits, the deals give KTs 64.17% when the hands overlap in a suit and 61.22% when they do not. KTs does better with a shared suit, by 2.95 points. **KTs against 76s by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | KTs wins | Ties | 76s wins | KTs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 4 | 25.00 | 63.801 | 0.742 | 35.457 | 64.172 | | No shared suit | 12 | 75.00 | 60.901 | 0.629 | 38.470 | 61.215 | ## How often this matchup comes up You will meet this exact matchup 0.0020% of the time in a random heads-up deal: 32 of 1,624,350, counting either seat order. ## A worked example To see what the equity is worth, imagine $100 each in a $200 pot. KTs is worth $123.90 on average (+$23.90); 76s is worth $76.10 (-$23.90). Over a long run, 1,000 deals split into about 616 for KTs, 377 for 76s and 7 tied. ## The same matchup from the other side One page covers both views. From 76s' side the equity is 38.05%, and from KTs' side it is 61.95%. ## Keep exploring Try KsTs against 7h6h 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 KsTs against 7h6h in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=KsTs&p2=7h6h) - [KTs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/kts.md) - [76s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/76s.md) - [KTs vs 75s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-75s.md) - [KTs vs 65s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-65s.md) - [KQo vs 76s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-76s.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed Nothing here is simulated. The 16 deals of KTs against 76s fall into a few suit patterns, each dealt against all 1,712,304 boards, with both best five-card hands compared on every board. Ties give each hand half a win, and the flop rows count a board under each of its ten flops. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [KTs vs 75s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-75s.md) - [KTs vs 65s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kts-vs-65s.md) - [KQo vs 76s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/kqo-vs-76s.md)