--- title: "QJs vs 86s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjs-vs-86s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjs-vs-86s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "QJs is a big favorite over 86s before the flop: 63.88% to 36.12% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjs-vs-76s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjs-vs-75s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9s-vs-86s.md"] --- # QJs vs 86s: preflop equity QJs is a big favorite over 86s before the flop: 63.88% to 36.12% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Before any board card is dealt, QJs holds 63.88% equity against 86s, which leaves 86s with 36.12%. ## QJs against 86s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for QJs against 86s, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QJs | 63.439 | 0.888 | 35.673 | 63.883 | | 86s | 35.673 | 0.888 | 63.439 | 36.117 | Each side holds one of the suited hands: QJs and 86s. The two hands share no rank, which makes this a pure matchup of card strength, straight chances and flush chances. That is a modest edge, the kind that shows up over many hands and is easy to miss in one. About 0.89% of boards chop the pot, which is why equity sits slightly above the win figure for both hands. Ranked by equity against a random hand, QJs is number 28 of the 169 starting hands and 86s is number 110. **Boards behind the percentages: 27,396,864 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QJs | 17,380,000 | 243,000 | 9,773,000 | | 86s | 9,773,000 | 243,000 | 17,380,000 | 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. **QJs 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QJs | 1.769 | 1.576 | 2.803 | 0.565 | | 86s | 0.565 | 2.803 | 1.576 | 1.769 | 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 QJs prefers rainbow flops topped by a ten or better, where it holds 71.18%, and likes low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) least, where it holds 38.30%. 86s is ahead on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower), even though it trails QJs when every flop is counted. **QJs against 86s by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | QJs wins | Ties | 86s wins | QJs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 24.595 | 70.979 | 0.402 | 28.619 | 71.180 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 6.314 | 37.998 | 0.613 | 61.389 | 38.304 | | Two-tone | 46.727 | 63.191 | 0.413 | 36.396 | 63.397 | | Monotone | 5.273 | 59.245 | 3.519 | 37.236 | 61.005 | | Paired | 17.091 | 63.960 | 2.174 | 33.866 | 65.047 | A rainbow flop shows three suits, a two-tone flop repeats one suit, a monotone flop is a single suit, and a paired flop repeats a rank. ## Compared with a random hand Compared with a random opponent, this matchup shifts QJs from 60.26% by +3.62 points and 86s from 46.24% by -10.12 points. **QJs 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QJs, all flops | 63.883 | 60.259 | +3.624 | 1.06014 | | QJs, rainbow, ten or higher | 71.180 | 60.259 | +10.921 | 1.18123 | | QJs, rainbow, nine or lower | 38.304 | 60.259 | -21.955 | 0.63566 | | QJs, two-tone | 63.397 | 60.259 | +3.138 | 1.05208 | | QJs, monotone | 61.005 | 60.259 | +0.746 | 1.01238 | | QJs, paired | 65.047 | 60.259 | +4.788 | 1.07946 | | 86s, all flops | 36.117 | 46.243 | -10.126 | 0.78103 | | 86s, rainbow, ten or higher | 28.820 | 46.243 | -17.423 | 0.62323 | | 86s, rainbow, nine or lower | 61.696 | 46.243 | +15.453 | 1.33417 | | 86s, two-tone | 36.603 | 46.243 | -9.640 | 0.79154 | | 86s, monotone | 38.995 | 46.243 | -7.248 | 0.84326 | | 86s, paired | 34.953 | 46.243 | -11.290 | 0.75585 | ## Does a shared suit matter? When the hands share a suit, QJs holds 66.29%; when they do not, it holds 63.08%. QJs does better with a shared suit, by 3.21 points. **QJs against 86s by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | QJs wins | Ties | 86s wins | QJs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 4 | 25.00 | 65.795 | 0.985 | 33.220 | 66.288 | | No shared suit | 12 | 75.00 | 62.654 | 0.855 | 36.491 | 63.081 | ## How often this matchup comes up How often does it happen? 16 of the 1,624,350 ordered deals (0.0010%) are QJs against 86s, and 32 (0.0020%) if either hand may sit in either seat. ## A worked example Take a $200 pot built from $100 each. QJs' equity of 63.88% is worth $127.76, a $27.76 edge, and 86s' 36.12% is worth $72.24, which is $27.76 under its stake. Think in thousands: about 634 of 1,000 go to QJs, about 357 go to 86s, and about 9 are chopped. ## The same matchup from the other side One page covers both views. From 86s' side the equity is 36.12%, and from QJs' side it is 63.88%. ## Keep exploring The calculator link fills in QsJs against 8h6h, 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. - [Open QsJs against 8h6h in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=QsJs&p2=8h6h) - [QJs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/qjs.md) - [86s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/86s.md) - [QJs vs 76s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjs-vs-76s.md) - [QJs vs 75s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjs-vs-75s.md) - [K9s vs 86s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9s-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 16 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 - [QJs vs 76s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjs-vs-76s.md) - [QJs vs 75s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjs-vs-75s.md) - [K9s vs 86s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9s-vs-86s.md)