--- title: "QQ vs 86s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-86s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-86s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "QQ is a big favorite over 86s before the flop: 79.07% to 20.93% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-76s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-75s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-86s.md"] --- # QQ vs 86s: preflop equity QQ is a big favorite over 86s before the flop: 79.07% to 20.93% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Averaged over every possible board, QQ is ahead of 86s by 58.14 points of equity, 79.07% to 20.93%. ## QQ against 86s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for QQ against 86s, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QQ | 78.888 | 0.355 | 20.757 | 79.066 | | 86s | 20.757 | 0.355 | 78.888 | 20.934 | The first hand is a pocket pair; the second is 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 the clear favorite, though 86s gets there on roughly one board in 5. A split pot comes up on 0.36% of boards, so the wins and the equity differ by half of that. Ranked by equity against a random hand, QQ is number 3 of the 169 starting hands and 86s is number 110. **Boards behind the percentages: 41,095,296 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QQ | 32,419,000 | 146,000 | 8,530,000 | | 86s | 8,530,000 | 146,000 | 32,419,000 | Exact total: 24 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 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QQ | 3.777 | 1.268 | 4.818 | 0.265 | | 86s | 0.265 | 4.818 | 1.268 | 3.777 | 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 By flop texture, QQ's equity runs from 66.45% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) up to 84.24% 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 86s by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | QQ wins | Ties | 86s wins | QQ equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 24.595 | 84.167 | 0.150 | 15.683 | 84.242 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 6.314 | 66.096 | 0.717 | 33.187 | 66.454 | | Two-tone | 46.545 | 77.024 | 0.254 | 22.722 | 77.151 | | Monotone | 5.212 | 72.569 | 2.374 | 25.057 | 73.756 | | Paired | 17.334 | 82.965 | 0.176 | 16.859 | 83.053 | 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 Against one random hand instead, QQ holds 79.93% and 86s holds 46.24%. Facing each other changes that by -0.86 points for QQ and -25.31 points for 86s. **QQ 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QQ, all flops | 79.066 | 79.925 | -0.859 | 0.98925 | | QQ, rainbow, ten or higher | 84.242 | 79.925 | +4.317 | 1.05401 | | QQ, rainbow, nine or lower | 66.454 | 79.925 | -13.471 | 0.83145 | | QQ, two-tone | 77.151 | 79.925 | -2.774 | 0.96529 | | QQ, monotone | 73.756 | 79.925 | -6.169 | 0.92282 | | QQ, paired | 83.053 | 79.925 | +3.128 | 1.03914 | | 86s, all flops | 20.934 | 46.243 | -25.309 | 0.45270 | | 86s, rainbow, ten or higher | 15.758 | 46.243 | -30.485 | 0.34077 | | 86s, rainbow, nine or lower | 33.546 | 46.243 | -12.697 | 0.72543 | | 86s, two-tone | 22.849 | 46.243 | -23.394 | 0.49411 | | 86s, monotone | 26.244 | 46.243 | -19.999 | 0.56752 | | 86s, paired | 16.947 | 46.243 | -29.296 | 0.36648 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Suit overlap shows up in the numbers. With a suit in common QQ has 79.64% equity, and with none in common it has 78.49%. QQ does better with a shared suit, by 1.15 points. **QQ against 86s by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | QQ wins | Ties | 86s wins | QQ equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 12 | 50.00 | 79.442 | 0.398 | 20.160 | 79.641 | | No shared suit | 12 | 50.00 | 78.334 | 0.312 | 21.354 | 78.490 | ## How often this matchup comes up Exactly 24 specific deals fit this matchup in one seat order, which is 0.0015% of 1,624,350; both orders together give 48, or 0.0030%. ## A worked example Put $100 each into a $200 pot and deal every board once: QQ averages $158.14 back, ahead of its $100 by $58.14, while 86s averages $41.86, short of its $100 by $58.14. Think in thousands: about 789 of 1,000 go to QQ, about 208 go to 86s, and about 3 are chopped. ## The same matchup from the other side The mirror image, 86s against QQ, is 20.93% to 79.07%, and its address redirects to this page. ## Keep exploring QsQh against 8d6d is a ready-made deal for the calculator, with no suit in common between the hands. The neighboring matchups below replace one hand with another of similar strength. - [Open QsQh against 8d6d in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=QsQh&p2=8d6d) - [QQ combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/qq.md) - [86s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/86s.md) - [QQ vs 76s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-76s.md) - [QQ vs 75s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-75s.md) - [JJ vs 86s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-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 24 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 - [QQ vs 76s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-76s.md) - [QQ vs 75s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-75s.md) - [JJ vs 86s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-86s.md)