--- title: "QQ vs 76s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-76s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-76s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "QQ is a big favorite over 76s before the flop: 77.94% to 22.06% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-75s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-65s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-76s.md"] --- # QQ vs 76s: preflop equity QQ is a big favorite over 76s before the flop: 77.94% to 22.06% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. If QQ and 76s get all the chips in before the flop, QQ owns 77.94% of the pot in the long run and 76s owns 22.06%. ## QQ against 76s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for QQ against 76s, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QQ | 77.766 | 0.351 | 21.883 | 77.941 | | 76s | 21.883 | 0.351 | 77.766 | 22.059 | We compare a pocket pair with a suited hand. A pair against two lower cards is a lopsided matchup: the pair is ahead and the other hand has no overcard to catch. QQ is well ahead, and 76s needs a specific kind of board to catch up. Ties are part of the picture: 0.35% of boards end in a split pot, and each side counts that as half a win. Among the 169 starting hands, QQ is number 3 and 76s is number 115 by strength against a random hand. **Boards behind the percentages: 41,095,296 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QQ | 31,958,000 | 144,000 | 8,993,000 | | 76s | 8,993,000 | 144,000 | 31,958,000 | 24 specific deals times 1,712,304 boards gives the exact total. The won, tied and lost counts are approximations from the five-decimal percentages, rounded to the nearest thousand. **QQ against 76s read as odds** | Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QQ | 3.533 | 1.286 | 4.570 | 0.283 | | 76s | 0.283 | 4.570 | 1.286 | 3.533 | 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 Across the five flop textures QQ's equity moves by 20.48 points, from 63.05% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) to 83.53% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better. QQ stays ahead on all five textures, but the swing between them is large, so how the flop looks matters a great deal. **QQ against 76s by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | QQ wins | Ties | 76s wins | QQ equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 24.595 | 83.447 | 0.160 | 16.393 | 83.527 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 6.314 | 62.720 | 0.649 | 36.631 | 63.045 | | Two-tone | 46.545 | 75.857 | 0.250 | 23.893 | 75.982 | | Monotone | 5.212 | 71.699 | 2.379 | 25.922 | 72.888 | | Paired | 17.334 | 82.135 | 0.177 | 17.688 | 82.223 | 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 QQ from 79.93% by -1.99 points and 76s from 45.37% by -23.31 points. **QQ and 76s 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QQ, all flops | 77.941 | 79.925 | -1.984 | 0.97518 | | QQ, rainbow, ten or higher | 83.527 | 79.925 | +3.602 | 1.04507 | | QQ, rainbow, nine or lower | 63.045 | 79.925 | -16.880 | 0.78880 | | QQ, two-tone | 75.982 | 79.925 | -3.943 | 0.95067 | | QQ, monotone | 72.888 | 79.925 | -7.037 | 0.91195 | | QQ, paired | 82.223 | 79.925 | +2.298 | 1.02875 | | 76s, all flops | 22.059 | 45.372 | -23.313 | 0.48618 | | 76s, rainbow, ten or higher | 16.473 | 45.372 | -28.899 | 0.36307 | | 76s, rainbow, nine or lower | 36.955 | 45.372 | -8.417 | 0.81449 | | 76s, two-tone | 24.018 | 45.372 | -21.354 | 0.52936 | | 76s, monotone | 27.112 | 45.372 | -18.260 | 0.59755 | | 76s, paired | 17.777 | 45.372 | -27.595 | 0.39181 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Suit overlap shows up in the numbers. With a suit in common QQ has 78.50% equity, and with none in common it has 77.38%. QQ does better with a shared suit, by 1.12 points. **QQ against 76s by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | QQ wins | Ties | 76s wins | QQ equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 12 | 50.00 | 78.307 | 0.394 | 21.299 | 78.504 | | No shared suit | 12 | 50.00 | 77.225 | 0.308 | 22.467 | 77.379 | ## How often this matchup comes up Out of 1,624,350 ways to deal two seats two cards each, 24 are QQ in one seat and 76s in the other (0.0015%); with the seats swapped too, 48 (0.0030%). ## A worked example Take a $200 pot built from $100 each. QQ's equity of 77.94% is worth $155.88, a $55.88 edge, and 76s' 22.06% is worth $44.12, which is $55.88 under its stake. Out of 1,000 deals you should see around 778 outright wins for QQ, 219 for 76s, and 3 split pots. ## The same matchup from the other side Read it from the other side: 76s against QQ is the same matchup with the numbers swapped, so 76s holds 22.06% and QQ holds 77.94%. That address sends you back to this page. ## Keep exploring Open the calculator with QsQh against 7d6d 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 QsQh against 7d6d in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=QsQh&p2=7d6d) - [QQ combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/qq.md) - [76s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/76s.md) - [QQ vs 75s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-75s.md) - [QQ vs 65s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-65s.md) - [JJ vs 76s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-76s.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed We counted every case. Each suit pattern of the 24 specific QQ against 76s deals meets all 1,712,304 boards, and the better five-card hand wins; a split pot is half a win each. The flop table reads each board under all ten of its three-card flops. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [QQ vs 75s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-75s.md) - [QQ vs 65s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-65s.md) - [JJ vs 76s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-76s.md)