--- title: "QJo vs 86s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjo-vs-86s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjo-vs-86s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "QJo is a big favorite over 86s before the flop: 61.42% to 38.58% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjo-vs-76s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjo-vs-75s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9o-vs-86s.md"] --- # QJo vs 86s: preflop equity QJo is a big favorite over 86s before the flop: 61.42% to 38.58% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Counting every board, the equity split is 61.42% for QJo and 38.58% for 86s, so QJo leads by 22.84 points. ## QJo against 86s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for QJo against 86s, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QJo | 60.993 | 0.862 | 38.145 | 61.424 | | 86s | 38.145 | 0.862 | 60.993 | 38.576 | The first hand is an offsuit hand; the second is a suited hand. The two hands share no rank, which makes this a pure matchup of card strength, straight chances and flush chances. The lead is steady rather than large, and the flop still has plenty of say in who wins. A split pot comes up on 0.86% of boards, so the wins and the equity differ by half of that. Place 39 of 169 belongs to QJo and place 110 belongs to 86s in the ranking against a random hand. **Boards behind the percentages: 82,190,592 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QJo | 50,131,000 | 708,000 | 31,352,000 | | 86s | 31,352,000 | 708,000 | 50,131,000 | 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. **QJo 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QJo | 1.592 | 1.640 | 2.622 | 0.628 | | 86s | 0.628 | 2.622 | 1.640 | 1.592 | 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 Break the boards down by their first three cards and QJo is strongest on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better (69.91%) and weakest on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) (35.85%). QJo is the favorite overall but falls behind on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower). **QJo against 86s by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | QJo wins | Ties | 86s wins | QJo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 24.717 | 69.708 | 0.413 | 29.879 | 69.914 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 6.313 | 35.525 | 0.643 | 63.832 | 35.846 | | Two-tone | 46.667 | 59.856 | 0.436 | 39.708 | 60.074 | | Monotone | 5.212 | 58.287 | 2.516 | 39.197 | 59.545 | | Paired | 17.091 | 61.726 | 2.250 | 36.024 | 62.851 | Read the flop types this way: rainbow has three suits, two-tone has two cards of one suit, monotone has three, and paired repeats a rank. ## Compared with a random hand Relative to a random opponent, QJo changes by +3.28 points (baseline 58.14%) and 86s by -7.66 points (baseline 46.24%). **QJo 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QJo, all flops | 61.424 | 58.135 | +3.289 | 1.05658 | | QJo, rainbow, ten or higher | 69.914 | 58.135 | +11.779 | 1.20261 | | QJo, rainbow, nine or lower | 35.846 | 58.135 | -22.289 | 0.61660 | | QJo, two-tone | 60.074 | 58.135 | +1.939 | 1.03335 | | QJo, monotone | 59.545 | 58.135 | +1.410 | 1.02425 | | QJo, paired | 62.851 | 58.135 | +4.716 | 1.08112 | | 86s, all flops | 38.576 | 46.243 | -7.667 | 0.83420 | | 86s, rainbow, ten or higher | 30.086 | 46.243 | -16.157 | 0.65061 | | 86s, rainbow, nine or lower | 64.154 | 46.243 | +17.911 | 1.38732 | | 86s, two-tone | 39.926 | 46.243 | -6.317 | 0.86340 | | 86s, monotone | 40.455 | 46.243 | -5.788 | 0.87484 | | 86s, paired | 37.149 | 46.243 | -9.094 | 0.80334 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Of the deals of this matchup, 24 share a suit (QJo at 62.14%) and 24 do not (60.70%). QJo does better with a shared suit, by 1.44 points. **QJo against 86s by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | QJo wins | Ties | 86s wins | QJo equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 24 | 50.00 | 61.692 | 0.904 | 37.404 | 62.144 | | No shared suit | 24 | 50.00 | 60.293 | 0.820 | 38.887 | 60.703 | ## 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, QJo's average share is $122.84 (a gain of $22.84) and 86s' is $77.16 (a loss of $22.84). Out of 1,000 deals you should see around 610 outright wins for QJo, 381 for 86s, and 9 split pots. ## The same matchup from the other side 86s versus QJo is this same page seen from the other hand: 38.58% for 86s, 61.42% for QJo. ## Keep exploring Open the calculator with QsJh against 8d6d already entered, a deal with no shared suit, and change any card to try your own hand. The matchups after it each swap one hand for a nearby one in the ranking. - [Open QsJh against 8d6d in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=QsJh&p2=8d6d) - [QJo combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/qjo.md) - [86s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/86s.md) - [QJo vs 76s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjo-vs-76s.md) - [QJo vs 75s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjo-vs-75s.md) - [K9o vs 86s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9o-vs-86s.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed The page is built from a full enumeration: 1,712,304 boards, every suit pattern of the 48 specific deals, both seven-card hands evaluated. A tie is worth half a win to each hand, and a board is tallied under each of its ten possible flops for the texture rows. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [QJo vs 76s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjo-vs-76s.md) - [QJo vs 75s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjo-vs-75s.md) - [K9o vs 86s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9o-vs-86s.md)