QJo vs 76s: preflop equity

If QJo and 76s get all the chips in before the flop, QJo owns 61.25% of the pot in the long run and 76s owns 38.75%.

QJo

61.25%

Wins 60.82%, ties 0.86%

76s

38.75%

Wins 38.32%, ties 0.86%

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

QJo against 76s: the numbers

Exact preflop results for QJo against 76s, in percent
HandWinsTiesLosesEquity
QJo60.8190.86038.32161.249
76s38.3210.86060.81938.751

We compare an offsuit hand with a suited hand. Neither hand shares a rank with the other, so this is a contest of high cards, connection and suits.

QJo is ahead, but 76s is far from dead: it takes 383 of every 1,000 deals outright. Ties are 0.86% of the outcomes here; each tied board gives both hands half the pot.

QJo ranks number 39 of 169 starting hands, and 76s ranks number 115, by equity against a random hand.

Boards behind the percentages: 82,190,592 counted in all
HandBoards won, aboutBoards tied, aboutBoards lost, about
QJo49,987,000707,00031,496,000
76s31,496,000707,00049,987,000

Exact total: 48 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.

QJo against 76s read as odds
HandEquity as odds (to 1)Wins one deal inLoses one deal inPot odds needed to call (to 1)
QJo1.5811.6442.6100.633
76s0.6332.6101.6441.581

The final column gives the least the pot must offer for each unit called for a call to break even at this equity.

Who is ahead on which flops

By flop texture, QJo's equity runs from 34.52% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) up to 70.08% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better. The overall edge for QJo hides low rainbow flops (nine high or lower), where 76s comes out in front.

QJo against 76s by flop texture, in percent
FlopShare of flopsQJo winsTies76s winsQJo equity
Rainbow, ten or higher24.71769.8690.42529.70670.081
Rainbow, nine or lower6.31334.2310.57465.19534.518
Two-tone46.66759.6790.43339.88859.895
Monotone5.21258.0632.52039.41759.323
Paired17.09161.5092.25436.23762.636

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

Relative to a random opponent, QJo changes by +3.11 points (baseline 58.14%) and 76s by -6.62 points (baseline 45.37%).

QJo and 76s here compared with each against a random hand, in percent
CaseEquity hereAgainst a random handChange in pointsTimes the random-hand equity
QJo, all flops61.24958.135+3.1141.05356
QJo, rainbow, ten or higher70.08158.135+11.9461.20549
QJo, rainbow, nine or lower34.51858.135-23.6170.59376
QJo, two-tone59.89558.135+1.7601.03027
QJo, monotone59.32358.135+1.1881.02044
QJo, paired62.63658.135+4.5011.07742
76s, all flops38.75145.372-6.6210.85407
76s, rainbow, ten or higher29.91945.372-15.4530.65942
76s, rainbow, nine or lower65.48245.372+20.1101.44322
76s, two-tone40.10545.372-5.2670.88392
76s, monotone40.67745.372-4.6950.89652
76s, paired37.36445.372-8.0080.82350

Does a shared suit matter?

Does suit overlap move the numbers? QJo has 61.97% when the hands share a suit and 60.53% when they do not. QJo does better with a shared suit, by 1.44 points.

QJo against 76s by suit overlap, in percent
DealsSpecific dealsShare of dealsQJo winsTies76s winsQJo equity
Share a suit2450.0061.5190.90237.57961.970
No shared suit2450.0060.1200.81839.06260.529

How often this matchup comes up

Exactly 48 specific deals fit this matchup in one seat order, which is 0.0030% of 1,624,350; both orders together give 96, or 0.0059%.

A worked example

Try it with money: two players each put in $100 and the whole board runs out every possible way. QJo averages $122.50 from the $200, up $22.50; 76s averages $77.50, down $22.50.

Think in thousands: about 608 of 1,000 go to QJo, about 383 go to 76s, and about 9 are chopped.

The same matchup from the other side

Read it from the other side: 76s against QJo is the same matchup with the numbers swapped, so 76s holds 38.75% and QJo holds 61.25%. That address sends you back to this page.

Try QsJh against 7d6d 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.

How this was computed

This is an exact count with no sampling. For the 48 ways to deal one QJo 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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