--- title: "QQ vs 87s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-87s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-87s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "QQ is a big favorite over 87s before the flop: 78.26% to 21.74% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-86s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-76s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-87s.md"] --- # QQ vs 87s: preflop equity QQ is a big favorite over 87s before the flop: 78.26% to 21.74% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Averaged over every possible board, QQ is ahead of 87s by 56.52 points of equity, 78.26% to 21.74%. ## QQ against 87s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for QQ against 87s, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QQ | 78.076 | 0.366 | 21.558 | 78.259 | | 87s | 21.558 | 0.366 | 78.076 | 21.741 | The first hand is a pocket pair; the second is a suited hand. Here a pair faces two cards that are both smaller, so the other hand needs to pair up and still be behind. QQ is the clear favorite, though 87s gets there on roughly one board in 5. About 0.37% of boards chop the pot, which is why equity sits slightly above the win figure for both hands. Place 3 of 169 belongs to QQ and place 100 belongs to 87s in the ranking 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 | 32,086,000 | 150,000 | 8,859,000 | | 87s | 8,859,000 | 150,000 | 32,086,000 | The total is exact: 24 specific deals times 1,712,304 boards. The three counts are approximate, worked out from the percentages to five decimals and rounded to the nearest thousand. **QQ 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QQ | 3.600 | 1.281 | 4.639 | 0.278 | | 87s | 0.278 | 4.639 | 1.281 | 3.600 | 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 Break the boards down by their first three cards and QQ is strongest on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better (82.80%) and weakest on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) (67.78%). 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 87s by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | QQ wins | Ties | 87s wins | QQ equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 24.595 | 82.695 | 0.202 | 17.103 | 82.796 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 6.314 | 67.482 | 0.593 | 31.925 | 67.779 | | Two-tone | 46.545 | 76.211 | 0.266 | 23.523 | 76.344 | | Monotone | 5.212 | 71.968 | 2.380 | 25.652 | 73.158 | | Paired | 17.334 | 82.229 | 0.177 | 17.594 | 82.317 | 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 -1.67 points and 87s from 47.94% by -26.20 points. **QQ 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QQ, all flops | 78.259 | 79.925 | -1.666 | 0.97916 | | QQ, rainbow, ten or higher | 82.796 | 79.925 | +2.871 | 1.03592 | | QQ, rainbow, nine or lower | 67.779 | 79.925 | -12.146 | 0.84803 | | QQ, two-tone | 76.344 | 79.925 | -3.581 | 0.95520 | | QQ, monotone | 73.158 | 79.925 | -6.767 | 0.91533 | | QQ, paired | 82.317 | 79.925 | +2.392 | 1.02993 | | 87s, all flops | 21.741 | 47.936 | -26.195 | 0.45354 | | 87s, rainbow, ten or higher | 17.204 | 47.936 | -30.732 | 0.35890 | | 87s, rainbow, nine or lower | 32.221 | 47.936 | -15.715 | 0.67217 | | 87s, two-tone | 23.656 | 47.936 | -24.280 | 0.49349 | | 87s, monotone | 26.842 | 47.936 | -21.094 | 0.55995 | | 87s, paired | 17.683 | 47.936 | -30.253 | 0.36889 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Split by suits, the deals give QQ 78.83% when the hands overlap in a suit and 77.69% when they do not. QQ does better with a shared suit, by 1.14 points. **QQ against 87s by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | QQ wins | Ties | 87s wins | QQ equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 12 | 50.00 | 78.622 | 0.408 | 20.970 | 78.826 | | No shared suit | 12 | 50.00 | 77.531 | 0.323 | 22.146 | 77.693 | ## How often this matchup comes up The class pair covers 24 combinations of specific cards in a fixed seat order, 0.0015% of 1,624,350, and 48 (0.0030%) in either order. ## A worked example A $100 all-in from each player makes a $200 pot, and the exact equity says QQ gets $156.52 of it on average and 87s gets $43.48. A thousand deals look like this: QQ takes 781, 87s takes 215, 4 are ties. ## The same matchup from the other side The mirror image, 87s against QQ, is 21.74% to 78.26%, and its address redirects to this page. ## Keep exploring QsQh against 8d7d 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 8d7d in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=QsQh&p2=8d7d) - [QQ combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/qq.md) - [87s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/87s.md) - [QQ vs 86s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-86s.md) - [QQ vs 76s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-76s.md) - [JJ vs 87s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-87s.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 86s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-86s.md) - [QQ vs 76s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qq-vs-76s.md) - [JJ vs 87s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/jj-vs-87s.md)