--- title: "QTs vs 87s: preflop equity" url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qts-vs-87s.md" canonical_url: "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qts-vs-87s" last_updated: "2026-10-23" type: "reference" summary: "QTs is a big favorite over 87s before the flop: 63.17% to 36.83% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit." related: ["https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qts-vs-86s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qts-vs-76s.md", "https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a4s-vs-87s.md"] --- # QTs vs 87s: preflop equity QTs is a big favorite over 87s before the flop: 63.17% to 36.83% equity, counted exactly over every board, with the split by flop type and suit. Averaged over every possible board, QTs is ahead of 87s by 26.34 points of equity, 63.17% to 36.83%. ## QTs against 87s: the numbers **Exact preflop results for QTs against 87s, in percent** | Hand | Wins | Ties | Loses | Equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QTs | 62.723 | 0.892 | 36.385 | 63.169 | | 87s | 36.385 | 0.892 | 62.723 | 36.831 | The matchup is suited hands on both sides, QTs against 87s. With no overlap in ranks, every card that pairs one hand is a card that does not pair the other. A 26.34 point lead is real, and 87s still takes about 364 of every 1,000 deals outright. Ties are 0.89% of the outcomes here; each tied board gives both hands half the pot. Place 34 of 169 belongs to QTs and place 100 belongs to 87s 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 | 17,184,000 | 244,000 | 9,968,000 | | 87s | 9,968,000 | 244,000 | 17,184,000 | Exact total: 16 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. **QTs 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) | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QTs | 1.715 | 1.594 | 2.748 | 0.583 | | 87s | 0.583 | 2.748 | 1.594 | 1.715 | 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 Rainbow flops topped by a ten or better are the best for QTs (69.82%); low rainbow flops (nine high or lower) are the worst (39.61%). QTs is the favorite overall but falls behind on low rainbow flops (nine high or lower). **QTs against 87s by flop texture, in percent** | Flop | Share of flops | QTs wins | Ties | 87s wins | QTs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Rainbow, ten or higher | 24.595 | 69.581 | 0.474 | 29.945 | 69.818 | | Rainbow, nine or lower | 6.314 | 39.426 | 0.369 | 60.205 | 39.611 | | Two-tone | 46.727 | 62.416 | 0.418 | 37.166 | 62.625 | | Monotone | 5.273 | 58.553 | 3.519 | 37.928 | 60.313 | | Paired | 17.091 | 63.589 | 2.174 | 34.237 | 64.676 | Rainbow flops have three suits, two-tone flops repeat one suit, monotone flops are all one suit, and paired flops repeat a rank. ## Compared with a random hand Against one random hand instead, QTs holds 59.47% and 87s holds 47.94%. Facing each other changes that by +3.70 points for QTs and -11.11 points for 87s. **QTs 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 | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | QTs, all flops | 63.169 | 59.468 | +3.701 | 1.06224 | | QTs, rainbow, ten or higher | 69.818 | 59.468 | +10.350 | 1.17404 | | QTs, rainbow, nine or lower | 39.611 | 59.468 | -19.857 | 0.66609 | | QTs, two-tone | 62.625 | 59.468 | +3.157 | 1.05309 | | QTs, monotone | 60.313 | 59.468 | +0.845 | 1.01421 | | QTs, paired | 64.676 | 59.468 | +5.208 | 1.08758 | | 87s, all flops | 36.831 | 47.936 | -11.105 | 0.76834 | | 87s, rainbow, ten or higher | 30.182 | 47.936 | -17.754 | 0.62963 | | 87s, rainbow, nine or lower | 60.389 | 47.936 | +12.453 | 1.25978 | | 87s, two-tone | 37.375 | 47.936 | -10.561 | 0.77969 | | 87s, monotone | 39.687 | 47.936 | -8.249 | 0.82792 | | 87s, paired | 35.324 | 47.936 | -12.612 | 0.73690 | ## Does a shared suit matter? Does suit overlap move the numbers? QTs has 65.54% when the hands share a suit and 62.38% when they do not. QTs does better with a shared suit, by 3.16 points. **QTs against 87s by suit overlap, in percent** | Deals | Specific deals | Share of deals | QTs wins | Ties | 87s wins | QTs equity | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Share a suit | 4 | 25.00 | 65.049 | 0.989 | 33.962 | 65.544 | | No shared suit | 12 | 75.00 | 61.948 | 0.860 | 37.192 | 62.378 | ## How often this matchup comes up This page stands for 16 specific-card matchups (0.0010% of 1,624,350 ordered deals), or 32 once you count the seats both ways (0.0020%). ## A worked example With $100 from each side, the $200 pot is split on average as $126.34 for QTs and $73.66 for 87s; the first side gains $26.34 per all-in and the second gives up $26.34. A thousand deals look like this: QTs takes 627, 87s takes 364, 9 are ties. ## The same matchup from the other side 87s against QTs adds nothing new: it is 36.83% for 87s and 63.17% for QTs, the same figures reversed. ## Keep exploring Open the calculator with QsTs against 8h7h already entered, a deal with no shared suit, and change any card to try your own hand. The matchups after it each swap one hand for a nearby one in the ranking. - [Open QsTs against 8h7h in the equity calculator](https://georgelipoker.com/tools/equity-calculator.md#p1=QsTs&p2=8h7h) - [QTs combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/qts.md) - [87s combos](https://georgelipoker.com/combos/87s.md) - [QTs vs 86s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qts-vs-86s.md) - [QTs vs 76s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qts-vs-76s.md) - [A4s vs 87s](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a4s-vs-87s.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 86s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qts-vs-86s.md) - [QTs vs 76s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/qts-vs-76s.md) - [A4s vs 87s: preflop equity](https://georgelipoker.com/equity/a4s-vs-87s.md)