QJs vs 76s: preflop equity

The exact count puts QJs at 63.74% and 76s at 36.26% when the two hands see all five board cards.

QJs

63.74%

Wins 63.29%, ties 0.89%

76s

36.26%

Wins 35.82%, ties 0.89%

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

QJs against 76s: the numbers

Exact preflop results for QJs against 76s, in percent
HandWinsTiesLosesEquity
QJs63.2930.88635.82163.736
76s35.8210.88663.29336.264

This is a contest between two suited hands, QJs and 76s. With no overlap in ranks, every card that pairs one hand is a card that does not pair the other.

QJs is ahead, but 76s is far from dead: it takes 358 of every 1,000 deals outright. Ties are part of the picture: 0.89% of boards end in a split pot, and each side counts that as half a win.

QJs ranks number 28 of 169 starting hands, and 76s ranks number 115, by equity against a random hand.

Boards behind the percentages: 27,396,864 counted in all
HandBoards won, aboutBoards tied, aboutBoards lost, about
QJs17,340,000243,0009,814,000
76s9,814,000243,00017,340,000

The board total is exact, 16 deals at 1,712,304 boards each. Won, tied and lost counts are rounded to the nearest thousand from the five-decimal percentages.

QJs against 76s read as odds
HandEquity as odds (to 1)Wins one deal inLoses one deal inPot odds needed to call (to 1)
QJs1.7581.5802.7920.569
76s0.5692.7921.5801.758

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, QJs peaks at 71.35% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better and bottoms out at 37.00% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower). QJs is the favorite overall but falls behind on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower).

QJs against 76s by flop texture, in percent
FlopShare of flopsQJs winsTies76s winsQJs equity
Rainbow, ten or higher24.59571.1400.41328.44771.346
Rainbow, nine or lower6.31436.7250.54762.72836.998
Two-tone46.72763.0540.41136.53563.259
Monotone5.27359.1043.52837.36860.868
Paired17.09163.7592.17834.06364.848

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

How much does the opponent matter? Compared with its random-hand 60.26%, QJs changes by +3.48 points, and 76s, from 45.37%, by -9.11.

QJs and 76s here compared with each against a random hand, in percent
CaseEquity hereAgainst a random handChange in pointsTimes the random-hand equity
QJs, all flops63.73660.259+3.4771.05770
QJs, rainbow, ten or higher71.34660.259+11.0871.18399
QJs, rainbow, nine or lower36.99860.259-23.2610.61398
QJs, two-tone63.25960.259+3.0001.04979
QJs, monotone60.86860.259+0.6091.01011
QJs, paired64.84860.259+4.5891.07615
76s, all flops36.26445.372-9.1080.79926
76s, rainbow, ten or higher28.65445.372-16.7180.63153
76s, rainbow, nine or lower63.00245.372+17.6301.38857
76s, two-tone36.74145.372-8.6310.80977
76s, monotone39.13245.372-6.2400.86247
76s, paired35.15245.372-10.2200.77475

Does a shared suit matter?

When the hands share a suit, QJs holds 66.13%; when they do not, it holds 62.94%. QJs does better with a shared suit, by 3.19 points.

QJs against 76s by suit overlap, in percent
DealsSpecific dealsShare of dealsQJs winsTies76s winsQJs equity
Share a suit425.0065.6360.98533.37966.128
No shared suit1275.0062.5120.85336.63562.938

How often this matchup comes up

Exactly 16 specific deals fit this matchup in one seat order, which is 0.0010% of 1,624,350; both orders together give 32, or 0.0020%.

A worked example

To see what the equity is worth, imagine $100 each in a $200 pot. QJs is worth $127.48 on average (+$27.48); 76s is worth $72.52 (-$27.48).

Think in thousands: about 633 of 1,000 go to QJs, about 358 go to 76s, and about 9 are chopped.

The same matchup from the other side

One page covers both views. From 76s' side the equity is 36.26%, and from QJs' side it is 63.74%.

The calculator link fills in QsJs against 7h6h, a deal where the two hands share no suit. Change any card to test your own hand. The neighboring matchups below swap one of the two hands for one of similar strength.

How this was computed

Method: exact enumeration. The 16 specific deals are grouped by suit pattern, each is run against all 1,712,304 boards, and both seven-card hands are scored. Equity adds half of every tie, and flop textures are tallied over the ten flops inside each board.

Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used.

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