--- title: "QJs vs 87s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjs-vs-87s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjs-vs-87s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "QJs is a big favorite over 87s before the flop: 63.32% to 36.68% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjs-vs-86s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjs-vs-76s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9s-vs-87s.md"] --- # QJs vs 87s: preflop equity QJs is a big favorite over 87s before the flop: 63.32% to 36.68% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Dealt all in against each other, QJs takes 63.32% of the pot on average and 87s takes the other 36.68%. ## QJs against 87s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for QJs against 87s, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QJs | 62.867 | 0.897 | 36.236 | 63.316 | | 87s | 36.236 | 0.897 | 62.867 | 36.684 | QJs meets 87s, 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. QJs is ahead, but 87s is far from dead: it takes 362 of every 1,000 deals outright. A split pot comes up on 0.90% of boards, so the wins and the equity differ by half of that. In the ranking of all 169 starting hands, QJs is number 28 and 87s is number 100. **Boards behind the percentages: 27,396,864 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QJs | 17,224,000 | 246,000 | 9,928,000 | | 87s | 9,928,000 | 246,000 | 17,224,000 | 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 87s 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 | 1.726 | 1.591 | 2.760 | 0.579 | | 87s | 0.579 | 2.760 | 1.591 | 1.726 | In the last column, a pot-to-call ratio at or above the figure makes a call break even or better at this equity. ## Who is ahead on which flops Rainbow flops topped by a ten or better are the best for QJs (70.19%); low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) are the worst (39.14%). On low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) the numbers flip and 87s is the one ahead. **QJs against 87s by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | QJs wins | Ties | 87s wins | QJs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 24.595 | 69.966 | 0.452 | 29.582 | 70.192 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 6.314 | 38.894 | 0.495 | 60.611 | 39.141 | | Two-tone | 46.727 | 62.618 | 0.425 | 36.957 | 62.831 | | Monotone | 5.273 | 58.772 | 3.524 | 37.704 | 60.534 | | Paired | 17.091 | 63.448 | 2.169 | 34.383 | 64.533 | 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 Relative to a random opponent, QJs changes by +3.06 points (baseline 60.26%) and 87s by -11.26 points (baseline 47.94%). **QJs and 87s 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 | 63.316 | 60.259 | +3.057 | 1.05073 | | QJs, rainbow, ten or higher | 70.192 | 60.259 | +9.933 | 1.16484 | | QJs, rainbow, nine or lower | 39.141 | 60.259 | -21.118 | 0.64955 | | QJs, two-tone | 62.831 | 60.259 | +2.572 | 1.04268 | | QJs, monotone | 60.534 | 60.259 | +0.275 | 1.00456 | | QJs, paired | 64.533 | 60.259 | +4.274 | 1.07093 | | 87s, all flops | 36.684 | 47.936 | -11.252 | 0.76527 | | 87s, rainbow, ten or higher | 29.808 | 47.936 | -18.128 | 0.62183 | | 87s, rainbow, nine or lower | 60.859 | 47.936 | +12.923 | 1.26959 | | 87s, two-tone | 37.169 | 47.936 | -10.767 | 0.77539 | | 87s, monotone | 39.466 | 47.936 | -8.470 | 0.82331 | | 87s, paired | 35.467 | 47.936 | -12.469 | 0.73988 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Of the deals of this matchup, 4 share a suit (QJs at 65.67%) and 12 do not (62.53%). QJs does better with a shared suit, by 3.14 points. **QJs against 87s by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | QJs wins | Ties | 87s wins | QJs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 4 | 25.00 | 65.171 | 0.996 | 33.833 | 65.669 | | No shared suit | 12 | 75.00 | 62.099 | 0.865 | 37.036 | 62.531 | ## How often this matchup comes up How often does it happen? 16 of the 1,624,350 ordered deals (0.0010%) are QJs against 87s, and 32 (0.0020%) if either hand may sit in either seat. ## A worked example Say each player puts $100 in before the flop, making a $200 pot. On average QJs takes back $126.64 of it, which is $26.64 more than it put in, and 87s takes back $73.36, $26.64 less than it put in. A thousand deals look like this: QJs takes 629, 87s takes 362, 9 are ties. ## The same matchup from the other side If you came looking for 87s against QJs, the numbers are the same with the hands swapped: 36.68% and 63.32%. ## Keep exploring Try QsJs against 8h7h 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 QsJs against 8h7h in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=QsJs&p2=8h7h) - [QJs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/qjs.md) - [87s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/87s.md) - [QJs vs 86s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjs-vs-86s.md) - [QJs vs 76s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjs-vs-76s.md) - [K9s vs 87s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9s-vs-87s.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed Each figure is a complete count over boards. Take the 16 specific deals, group them by suit pattern, deal all 1,712,304 boards against each, and compare the two seven-card hands. Equity counts a tie as half a win; the flop rows use every one of a board's ten flops. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [QJs vs 86s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjs-vs-86s.md) - [QJs vs 76s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qjs-vs-76s.md) - [K9s vs 87s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/k9s-vs-87s.md)