--- title: "QTs vs 86s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qts-vs-86s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qts-vs-86s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "QTs is a big favorite over 86s before the flop: 63.74% to 36.26% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qts-vs-76s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qts-vs-75s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a4s-vs-86s.md"] --- # QTs vs 86s: preflop equity QTs is a big favorite over 86s before the flop: 63.74% to 36.26% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Counting every board, the equity split is 63.74% for QTs and 36.26% for 86s, so QTs leads by 27.48 points. ## QTs against 86s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for QTs against 86s, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QTs | 63.296 | 0.882 | 35.822 | 63.737 | | 86s | 35.822 | 0.882 | 63.296 | 36.263 | Here suited hands face each other, QTs on one side and 86s on the other. With no overlap in ranks, every card that pairs one hand is a card that does not pair the other. The lead is steady rather than large, and the flop still has plenty of say in who wins. Ties are 0.88% of the outcomes here; each tied board gives both hands half the pot. Place 34 of 169 belongs to QTs and place 110 belongs to 86s in the ranking 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 | 17,341,000 | 242,000 | 9,814,000 | | 86s | 9,814,000 | 242,000 | 17,341,000 | 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 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QTs | 1.758 | 1.580 | 2.792 | 0.569 | | 86s | 0.569 | 2.792 | 1.580 | 1.758 | The last column is the smallest pot odds, written as a pot-to-call ratio, at which a call breaks even with this equity. ## Who is ahead on which flops By flop texture, QTs' equity runs from 38.77% on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) up to 70.81% on rainbow flops topped by a ten or better. Watch for low rainbow flops (nine high or lower): on those flops 86s holds the better equity. **QTs against 86s by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | QTs wins | Ties | 86s wins | QTs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 24.595 | 70.593 | 0.424 | 28.983 | 70.805 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 6.314 | 38.530 | 0.487 | 60.983 | 38.774 | | Two-tone | 46.727 | 62.988 | 0.406 | 36.606 | 63.191 | | Monotone | 5.273 | 59.026 | 3.515 | 37.459 | 60.784 | | Paired | 17.091 | 64.101 | 2.178 | 33.721 | 65.190 | Flop types: rainbow means three different suits, two-tone means one suit twice, monotone means one suit three times, paired means a repeated rank. ## Compared with a random hand A random hand would give QTs 59.47% and 86s 46.24%. Against each other the change is +4.27 points for QTs and -9.98 for 86s. **QTs 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QTs, all flops | 63.737 | 59.468 | +4.269 | 1.07179 | | QTs, rainbow, ten or higher | 70.805 | 59.468 | +11.337 | 1.19064 | | QTs, rainbow, nine or lower | 38.774 | 59.468 | -20.694 | 0.65201 | | QTs, two-tone | 63.191 | 59.468 | +3.723 | 1.06261 | | QTs, monotone | 60.784 | 59.468 | +1.316 | 1.02213 | | QTs, paired | 65.190 | 59.468 | +5.722 | 1.09622 | | 86s, all flops | 36.263 | 46.243 | -9.980 | 0.78418 | | 86s, rainbow, ten or higher | 29.195 | 46.243 | -17.048 | 0.63134 | | 86s, rainbow, nine or lower | 61.226 | 46.243 | +14.983 | 1.32401 | | 86s, two-tone | 36.809 | 46.243 | -9.434 | 0.79599 | | 86s, monotone | 39.216 | 46.243 | -7.027 | 0.84804 | | 86s, paired | 34.810 | 46.243 | -11.433 | 0.75276 | ## Does a shared suit matter? The suit split reads 66.16% for QTs with a shared suit and 62.93% without one. QTs does better with a shared suit, by 3.23 points. **QTs against 86s by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | QTs wins | Ties | 86s wins | QTs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 4 | 25.00 | 65.674 | 0.978 | 33.348 | 66.163 | | No shared suit | 12 | 75.00 | 62.503 | 0.850 | 36.647 | 62.928 | ## How often this matchup comes up Out of 1,624,350 ways to deal two seats two cards each, 16 are QTs in one seat and 86s in the other (0.0010%); with the seats swapped too, 32 (0.0020%). ## A worked example Worked example: both players commit $100, so $200 sits in the middle. Over every board, QTs' average share is $127.48 (a gain of $27.48) and 86s' is $72.52 (a loss of $27.48). Think in thousands: about 633 of 1,000 go to QTs, about 358 go to 86s, and about 9 are chopped. ## The same matchup from the other side One page covers both views. From 86s' side the equity is 36.26%, and from QTs' side it is 63.74%. ## Keep exploring Try QsTs against 8h6h 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 QsTs against 8h6h in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=QsTs&p2=8h6h) - [QTs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/qts.md) - [86s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/86s.md) - [QTs vs 76s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qts-vs-76s.md) - [QTs vs 75s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qts-vs-75s.md) - [A4s vs 86s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a4s-vs-86s.md) - [All hand matchups](https://georgelipoker.com/equity.md) ## How this was computed We counted every case. Each suit pattern of the 16 specific QTs against 86s deals meets all 1,712,304 boards, and the better five-card hand wins; a split pot is half a win each. The flop table reads each board under all ten of its three-card flops. Source: our own exact count from the GeorgeLiPoker poker math library. No outside data is used. ## Related - [QTs vs 76s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qts-vs-76s.md) - [QTs vs 75s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qts-vs-75s.md) - [A4s vs 86s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a4s-vs-86s.md)