80.93%
Wins 80.74%, ties 0.37%
77
19.07%
Wins 18.89%, ties 0.37%
QQ against 77: the numbers
| Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 80.740 | 0.369 | 18.891 | 80.925 | |
| 77 | 18.891 | 0.369 | 80.740 | 19.075 |
This is a contest between two pocket pairs, QQ and 77. A pair against a smaller pair is the classic crush: the smaller pair needs one of its two remaining cards to make a set.
A gap this wide means 77 is in trouble before the flop and has few good runouts. Ties are 0.37% of the outcomes here; each tied board gives both hands half the pot.
For context, QQ sits at number 3 of 169 starting hands and 77 at number 9 when each is run against a random hand.
| Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about |
|---|---|---|---|
| 49,771,000 | 227,000 | 11,645,000 | |
| 77 | 11,645,000 | 227,000 | 49,771,000 |
Exact total: 36 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.
| Hand | Equity as odds (to 1) | Wins one deal in | Loses one deal in | Pot odds needed to call (to 1) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4.242 | 1.239 | 5.294 | 0.236 | |
| 77 | 0.236 | 5.294 | 1.239 | 4.242 |
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
By flop texture, QQ's equity runs from 66.61% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) up to 86.48% on paired flops. QQ stays ahead on all five textures, but the swing between them is large, so how the flop looks matters a great deal.
| Flop | Share of flops | QQ wins | Ties | 77 wins | QQ equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rainbow, ten or higher | 24.595 | 83.803 | 0.219 | 15.978 | 83.912 |
| Rainbow, nine or lower | 6.314 | 66.239 | 0.746 | 33.015 | 66.612 |
| Two-tone | 46.363 | 79.653 | 0.314 | 20.033 | 79.810 |
| Monotone | 5.152 | 74.444 | 1.721 | 23.835 | 75.305 |
| Paired | 17.576 | 86.379 | 0.193 | 13.428 | 86.475 |
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
The table below sets each hand against its own random-hand baseline: a change of +1.00 points for QQ, from 79.93%, and -47.17 for 77, from 66.24%.
| Case | Equity here | Against a random hand | Change in points | Times the random-hand equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| QQ, all flops | 80.925 | 79.925 | +1.000 | 1.01251 |
| QQ, rainbow, ten or higher | 83.912 | 79.925 | +3.987 | 1.04988 |
| QQ, rainbow, nine or lower | 66.612 | 79.925 | -13.313 | 0.83343 |
| QQ, two-tone | 79.810 | 79.925 | -0.115 | 0.99856 |
| QQ, monotone | 75.305 | 79.925 | -4.620 | 0.94220 |
| QQ, paired | 86.475 | 79.925 | +6.550 | 1.08195 |
| 77, all flops | 19.075 | 66.236 | -47.161 | 0.28799 |
| 77, rainbow, ten or higher | 16.088 | 66.236 | -50.148 | 0.24289 |
| 77, rainbow, nine or lower | 33.388 | 66.236 | -32.848 | 0.50408 |
| 77, two-tone | 20.190 | 66.236 | -46.046 | 0.30482 |
| 77, monotone | 24.695 | 66.236 | -41.541 | 0.37283 |
| 77, paired | 13.525 | 66.236 | -52.711 | 0.20419 |
Does a shared suit matter?
Split by suits, the deals give QQ 81.06% when the hands overlap in a suit and 80.26% when they do not. QQ does better with a shared suit, by 0.80 points.
| Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | QQ wins | Ties | 77 wins | QQ equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Share a suit | 30 | 83.33 | 80.866 | 0.385 | 18.749 | 81.058 |
| No shared suit | 6 | 16.67 | 80.113 | 0.289 | 19.598 | 80.258 |
How often this matchup comes up
This page stands for 36 specific-card matchups (0.0022% of 1,624,350 ordered deals), or 72 once you count the seats both ways (0.0044%).
A worked example
Worked example: both players commit $100, so $200 sits in the middle. Over every board, QQ's average share is $161.86 (a gain of $61.86) and 77's is $38.14 (a loss of $61.86).
Out of 1,000 deals you should see around 807 outright wins for QQ, 189 for 77, and 4 split pots.
The same matchup from the other side
Swap the hands and you get 77 with 19.07% against QQ with 80.93%. We keep one page per matchup, with the better-ranked hand first.
Keep exploring
Try QsQh against 7d7c 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.
How this was computed
All 1,712,304 five-card boards are dealt for every suit pattern among the 36 specific deals of QQ against 77, and both hands are scored on each. That is a full count, so the percentages are exact. Ties are half a win each, and each board appears once per flop it contains.
Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used.
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