--- title: "QTs vs 76s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qts-vs-76s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qts-vs-76s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "QTs is a big favorite over 76s before the flop: 62.71% to 37.29% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qts-vs-75s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qts-vs-65s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a4s-vs-76s.md"] --- # QTs vs 76s: preflop equity QTs is a big favorite over 76s before the flop: 62.71% to 37.29% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Dealt all in against each other, QTs takes 62.71% of the pot on average and 76s takes the other 37.29%. ## QTs against 76s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for QTs against 76s, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QTs | 62.267 | 0.880 | 36.853 | 62.707 | | 76s | 36.853 | 0.880 | 62.267 | 37.293 | QTs and 76s are both suited hands. Neither hand shares a rank with the other, so this is a contest of high cards, connection and suits. That is a modest edge, the kind that shows up over many hands and is easy to miss in one. 0.88% of boards are ties, so the equity of each hand is its win rate plus half of that. QTs ranks number 34 of 169 starting hands, and 76s ranks number 115, by equity against a random hand. **Boards behind the percentages: 27,396,864 counted in all** | Hand | Boards won, about | Boards tied, about | Boards lost, about | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QTs | 17,059,000 | 241,000 | 10,097,000 | | 76s | 10,097,000 | 241,000 | 17,059,000 | 16 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. **QTs 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QTs | 1.681 | 1.606 | 2.713 | 0.595 | | 76s | 0.595 | 2.713 | 1.606 | 1.681 | 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 Break the boards down by their first three cards and QTs is strongest on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better (69.94%) and weakest on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) (36.62%). On low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) the numbers flip and 76s is the one ahead. **QTs against 76s by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | QTs wins | Ties | 76s wins | QTs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 24.595 | 69.718 | 0.434 | 29.848 | 69.935 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 6.314 | 36.405 | 0.420 | 63.175 | 36.615 | | Two-tone | 46.727 | 61.975 | 0.403 | 37.622 | 62.177 | | Monotone | 5.273 | 58.245 | 3.524 | 38.231 | 60.007 | | Paired | 17.091 | 63.136 | 2.182 | 34.682 | 64.227 | 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 QTs from 59.47% by +3.24 points and 76s from 45.37% by -8.08 points. **QTs 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QTs, all flops | 62.707 | 59.468 | +3.239 | 1.05447 | | QTs, rainbow, ten or higher | 69.935 | 59.468 | +10.467 | 1.17601 | | QTs, rainbow, nine or lower | 36.615 | 59.468 | -22.853 | 0.61571 | | QTs, two-tone | 62.177 | 59.468 | +2.709 | 1.04555 | | QTs, monotone | 60.007 | 59.468 | +0.539 | 1.00906 | | QTs, paired | 64.227 | 59.468 | +4.759 | 1.08003 | | 76s, all flops | 37.293 | 45.372 | -8.079 | 0.82194 | | 76s, rainbow, ten or higher | 30.065 | 45.372 | -15.307 | 0.66263 | | 76s, rainbow, nine or lower | 63.385 | 45.372 | +18.013 | 1.39701 | | 76s, two-tone | 37.823 | 45.372 | -7.549 | 0.83362 | | 76s, monotone | 39.993 | 45.372 | -5.379 | 0.88145 | | 76s, paired | 35.773 | 45.372 | -9.599 | 0.78844 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Of the deals of this matchup, 4 share a suit (QTs at 65.01%) and 12 do not (61.94%). QTs does better with a shared suit, by 3.07 points. **QTs against 76s by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | QTs wins | Ties | 76s wins | QTs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 4 | 25.00 | 64.516 | 0.978 | 34.506 | 65.005 | | No shared suit | 12 | 75.00 | 61.517 | 0.848 | 37.635 | 61.941 | ## How often this matchup comes up Exactly 16 specific deals fit this matchup in one seat order, which is 0.0010% of 1,624,350; both orders together give 32, or 0.0020%. ## A worked example Try it with money: two players each put in $100 and the whole board runs out every possible way. QTs averages $125.42 from the $200, up $25.42; 76s averages $74.58, down $25.42. A thousand deals look like this: QTs takes 623, 76s takes 368, 9 are ties. ## The same matchup from the other side The mirror image, 76s against QTs, is 37.29% to 62.71%, and its address redirects to this page. ## Keep exploring QsTs against 7h6h 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 QsTs against 7h6h in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=QsTs&p2=7h6h) - [QTs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/qts.md) - [76s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/76s.md) - [QTs vs 75s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qts-vs-75s.md) - [QTs vs 65s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qts-vs-65s.md) - [A4s vs 76s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a4s-vs-76s.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed The figures are counted, not estimated: 1,712,304 boards for every suit pattern of the 16 specific deals, with both seven-card hands compared each time. Equity gives half a win for a tie. For the flop rows, a board is counted once under each of the ten flops inside it. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [QTs vs 75s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qts-vs-75s.md) - [QTs vs 65s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qts-vs-65s.md) - [A4s vs 76s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a4s-vs-76s.md)