--- title: "QQ vs 77: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-77.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-77" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "QQ is a big favorite over 77 before the flop: 80.93% to 19.08% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-aqs.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-ajs.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-77.md"] --- # QQ vs 77: preflop equity QQ is a big favorite over 77 before the flop: 80.93% to 19.08% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. The exact count puts QQ at 80.93% and 77 at 19.07% when the two hands see all five board cards. ## QQ against 77: the numbers **Exact preflop results for QQ against 77, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QQ | 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. **Boards behind the percentages: 61,642,944 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QQ | 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. **QQ against 77 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 | 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. **QQ against 77 by flop texture, in percent** | 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%. **QQ and 77 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 | 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. **QQ against 77 by suit overlap, in percent** | 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. - [Open QsQh against 7d7c in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=QsQh&p2=7d7c) - [QQ combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/qq.md) - [77 combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/77.md) - [QQ vs AQs](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-aqs.md) - [QQ vs AJs](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-ajs.md) - [JJ vs 77](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-77.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## 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. ## Related - [QQ vs AQs: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-aqs.md) - [QQ vs AJs: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-ajs.md) - [JJ vs 77: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-77.md)